How to Use paragraph in a Sentence

paragraph

noun
  • The two introductory paragraphs were written by the editor.
  • Please refer to section 2, paragraph 4 for the appropriate information.
  • Their hook gets buried in paragraph three.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • How do the paragraphs flow from one to the next.
    Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Let’s cut to the chase in the first paragraphs.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Two short paragraphs are enough.
    John Palinkas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the last paragraph here caught my eye, and is the point of this blog post.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Break up your text with short paragraphs and bullet points.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Just a couple of paragraphs about these two boys and that was it.
    Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
  • One emoji, used well, can say more than a paragraph.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The next paragraph in these contracts is where things get tricky.
    Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The first attempt—one paragraph—is crossed out.
    Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Each paragraph contains seeds for new posts.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Then in the next paragraph or two, get right to the heart of the matter.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2020
  • On a lighter note, your crush might start texting in full paragraphs again.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 26 Oct. 2025
  • See above paragraphs about waving your arms.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There were mentions of the rape case, maybe, in a quick and tidy paragraph.
    Amira Rose Davis, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Don't hide your main point in the fourth paragraph or else nobody will read it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There were fourteen g-words in the paragraph and all of them used loop-tails.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Even forty-five years on, lines, paragraphs, and even whole pages are redacted.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • His name appeared in the eighth paragraph of a story a few weeks ago.
    Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
  • And then the next paragraph is about where to transfer the money to.
    Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Every one of my keynotes talks about that in the first paragraph.
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Facebook will have to do better than a four-paragraph blog post.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Parts of the next two paragraphs contain spoilers for the film.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • Go watch the pilot and come back after the next paragraph break.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The court’s order was a paragraph long and did not note any dissents.
    Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The court’s order was one paragraph and did not note any dissents.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Readers who want to avoid spoilers should skip the next paragraph.
    Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • You’ve been stuck on writing the first paragraph of your report for hours.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2023

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