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
• The measles vaccine is still often held up as its paragon.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2021
• 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 country makes an odd paragon for fans of small government.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2020
• Farrell wasn’t much of a new-music paragon on stage or record.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
• The heart—that paragon of natural rhythm—sometimes needs help to stay on beat.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 16 July 2021
• Trump’s own response to the testimony was less than a paragon of poise.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Mr. Evans has done it all—a paragon of adroit industry.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 17 May 2017
• Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Britain, in the wake of its own revolutions, seemed a paragon of progress to Franklin.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• 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
• There’s chart action right now for songs that exalt women as paragons of virtue.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Is Klara a paragon of fidelity or a tool of suppression?
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• The city’s best new hotels are also paragons of adaptive reuse.
  — Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Many were delighted to see this ostensible paragon of virtue take a fall.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
• Our city is named after Cincinnatus – a paragon of virtue.
  — Enquirer Editorial Board, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Human beings who do these things are not called selfish: They are in fact praised as paragons of team play.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• This comes from the paragon of shareholder primacy himself.
  — Sarah Keohane Williamson, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022
• At least until the child emerged and the woman was transformed into a paragon of pure maternal selflessness.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• None of that stopped officials from declaring the day a paragon of civic participation.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Verdugo has not exactly been a paragon of patience towards the season’s end.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Still, New York does not have a plethora of seafood places below the paragon of Le Bernardin.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• So, no, this experiment was not a paragon of the scientific method.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2020
• The secondary, once a paragon of consistency, has been unable to play to its usual high standards.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2020
• For tired home cooks, the boneless, skinless chicken thigh can feel like a dinnertime paragon of protein.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024