How to Use paragon in a Sentence

paragon

noun
  • This isn’t to say the movement is some paragon of pure fan love.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • And for these paragons of endurance, the weather is just right.
    — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2019
  • Farrell wasn’t much of a new-music paragon on stage or record.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The country makes an odd paragon for fans of small government.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • There’s chart action right now for songs that exalt women as paragons of virtue.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The heart—that paragon of natural rhythm—sometimes needs help to stay on beat.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 16 July 2021
  • These crunchy paragons are slightly sweet, sour and properly hot.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Trump’s own response to the testimony was less than a paragon of poise.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • The city’s best new hotels are also paragons of adaptive reuse.
    — Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2023
  • Like his mentor’s creations, Smith’s wines are a certain kind of paragon.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Britain, in the wake of its own revolutions, seemed a paragon of progress to Franklin.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • Venice is the paragon of historic cities and the clearest example in the world of how a city might be lost.
    — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2016
  • The event welcomes stars, young creatives, and industry paragons each year.
    — Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The event welcomes stars, young creatives, and industry paragons each year.
    — Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
  • By the same token, anyone unmasked as less than a moral paragon will be vilified.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Patrice Bergeron is a paragon of hockey virtue, a first-class player, leader, and all-time good guy.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • As the film stands now, no one need be concerned about the honor of Rajputs, as warriors or paragons of virtue.
    — Rachel Saltz, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In the opposing dugout, the left-handed starting pitcher served as a paragon for the value of these skills.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • For years, Spoon has been held up by fans and critics as a paragon of indie-rock consistency.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Pale, wrinkled, and hairless, the naked mole-rat looks more like a toothy, undercooked sausage than a paragon of mammalian health.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
  • In some abstract way, (the 1985 Bears) are still the paragons of football virtue in this town.
    — Paul Johnson, Naperville Sun, 17 June 2017
  • The Ramblers are less of a parable and more of a paragon for the beauty of college basketball.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Still, New York does not have a plethora of seafood places below the paragon of Le Bernardin.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • With a rippling 255-pound physique, Alzado was also the paragon of fitness in the league.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Jennifer Lopez is one of the most famous women in the world, successful as a movie star, singer, dancer, and paragon of skin care.
    — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Some of those third-party sellers would make the street-cart vendors with their $5 Ray-Ban shades look like paragons of virtue.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • As a result, the Christian right wing adopted the penguin as a paragon of family values.
    — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
  • But the White House building itself is not exactly a paragon of democracy.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The thali’s presentation of flavors and textures can open the door to other Rajasthani paragons.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023

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