How to Use paladin in a Sentence

paladin

noun
  • One of our recent books has a trans man paladin on the cover.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Regé-Jean Page, has a small part here as a paladin named Xenk.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The problem was audiences who weren’t well-versed in paladins, druids and bards mostly steered clear.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2023
  • But who was this paladin of the West going to protect civilization from?
    — Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But newer players also love their tiefling warlocks and dragonborn paladins.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Samara is this universe’s approximation of a paladin, a Justicar.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Players design characters that can range from humans to elves to dwarves and beyond and then select a class such as paladin, fighter, ranger, barbarian or several others.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Players design characters that can range from humans to elves to dwarves and beyond and then select a class such as paladin, fighter, ranger, barbarian or several others.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Robertson is a different kind of paladin that also deserves admiration, Morris believes.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • That said, both channel a similar irreverence for fantasy adventures — and make an argument for always having a paladin in your party.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Adams, 22, has been a paladin in the paint for the Thunder in these playoffs, but the nobility of making and rejecting shots and pulling down rebounds is possibly the only thing to have escaped his grasp.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 27 May 2016
  • The author provides valuable information about John Quincy Adams as an antislavery paladin, but his treatment of Lincoln constitutes a superficial, misleading and often inaccurate caricature.
    — Michael Burlingame, WSJ, 4 July 2017
  • In fascinating detail, Clover tracks the way the jaundiced and largely bogus thinking of these three paladins has filtered into various Russian nationalist groups, Russian institutions (particularly the military), and even Putin’s own thinking.
    — Charles Clover, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2016
  • Simon the insecure sorcerer (Justice Smith), Doric the shapeshifting druid (Sophia Lillis) and Xenk the noble paladin (Regé-Jean Page), who all band together to navigate deadly traps, fight powerful enemies and face off against the powerful Red Wizard.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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