How to Use paramour in a Sentence
paramour
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During their run-in, her past paramour shoots her in the chest.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
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Which paramour will Robert take solace in?
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
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The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
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The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
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Ginuwine’s whole life was changed by the arrival of his paramour.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
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Blanche boasts of having had a hundred and forty-three paramours.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Jax is her best friend Stassi’s on-again, off-again paramour.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
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Bryant’s lead guitar playing can tear a whole in the sky or coo like a paramour.
—Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 13 July 2021
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Check friends, rivals, grudge holders, lovers, and would-be paramours.
—James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
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Swift has been seen about town with famous friends, paramours and even one of her cats from time to time.
—Lily Boyce, New York Times, 2 July 2026
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To him, the focus on his boldface paramours damaged the film.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2019
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And a lot of times that paramour did, in fact, cause monetary damage.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
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Perry’s new paramour, for his part, has also been going through changes.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
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Or because her paramour Boy Capel was said to bestow them on her?
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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His paramour would allegedly log into the account and read the drafts.
—Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2018
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In the version that made it to theaters, Alex is drowned by her paramour and then shot by his wife.
—Esther Zuckerman, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
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But her longtime paramour, the Joker, doesn’t join her onscreen for the movie.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 Feb. 2020
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And yet she is often boiled down to the once-paramour of a rapper whose name isn’t worth repeating.
—Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 19 Aug. 2025
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Though people didn’t know it at the time, the note was for Graber, from a programmer paramour.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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That’s what Robby and his career-woman paramour are each doing in the chat room.
—Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
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When the paramours earn their living by faking emotion, getting down to the real deal can take some time.
—Sarah Dunn, New York Times, 1 June 2018
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Meanwhile, there were clues that Greg had another paramour waiting in the wings.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
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The other man, played by Haynes, comes to his paramour’s defense and fights back against the attackers.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 29 July 2023
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Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and paramour, was struck in the head with an axe and then strangled.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017
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That last name was the killer’s true one; the others the aliases of the bigamist who went from bilking paramours and brides to murdering them.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
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Too bad his paramour, Ellaria Sand, didn’t seem to learn from Oberyn’s mistake.
—Joanna Robinson, HWD, 12 July 2017
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One such ghost comes in the form of Adam Scott as Clyde, Jenna's former high school paramour.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2023
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Frankly, any online paramour who asks for money and yet promises a plane should be treated with extreme suspicion.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2026
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The part of her Russian paramour, Vadime, is given over to Tomás Cruz, a pop and jazz singer.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
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Not the other paramour — the windmill had heard of Luke’s wicked ways — who shamed the woman for what had happened within its walls.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
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