How to Use unicorn in a Sentence

unicorn

noun

• Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The unicorn's horn must be maintained to be in good health.
  — Phil Boucher, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• The unicorn turned out to be a pile of rotting meat in a trenchcoat.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
• The justice was riding on a unicorn, the reins in her hands.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• The temptation can be to try to thread the needle, to find the unicorn hire.
  — Ryan Weissmueller, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• When the unicorn’s mouth is open, multi-colored lights flash in the skull and through the horn.
  — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2019
• Toddler Bahia climbed out of a boat and up the plank to reclaim her unicorn.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
• Then, dance the night away beneath the disco ball, which is of course unicorn-shaped.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
• To me, this made Fanny a unicorn: a woman with a good job and a house of her own.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• The pair were cast as unicorns and painted the colors of the rainbow with bright chalk sticks.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
• My daughter said there had to be a verse about unicorns.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
• The few unicorns the country has birthed are baby-sized.
  — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• Landmarks like this are few and far between, and the price makes this place a true unicorn.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Choose between rainbow clouds or unicorns with horns and ears that stick out of the box.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
• One of Rhonita Miller’s nieces plays with a stuffed unicorn at her aunt's home.
  — César Rodríguez, Time, 9 Nov. 2019
• For us, this was like seeing a unicorn, or a flock of unicorns.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• First, some market truths—more and more unicorns are now found outside of the US.
  — Hemant Mohapatra, Quartz India, 4 Dec. 2019
• For me and my daughters, unicorns are a very real part of our world.
  — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
• But what about a 5-foot unicorn made out of flowers, a pair of alpacas named Ant and Dec and a best man?
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2020
• In an analog world, Polaroid was a unicorn in a dray horse herd.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Within the flowers are a lion, a unicorn, and a boar, pulled from the coats of arms of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2023
• And then one night, waylaid in Spain, Stan finds his unicorn at a pickup game.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 June 2022
• Next to him is a purple unicorn with a pink tutu and a rainbow mane.
  — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• But doesn’t being a unicorn or the largest player mean something to you?
  — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 25 Nov. 2019
• Imagine a unicorn crossed with Jabba the Hut and shrunk to fit in the palm of your hand: the caterpillar of a cecropia moth.
  — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Like many young girls her age, Charlotte seems to have a penchant for unicorns.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2019
• Investors had high hopes that the trio of recent big IPOs would be enough to crack the door open and let the flood of unicorns through to the public markets.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• So the great unicorn of deposits is one that has significant deposits of the light two and the heavy two.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
• Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
• While Byfuglien himself was a unicorn of a player — all of those qualities, a great scorer and one of the game’s all-time characters — players who fit your wishlist do get moved, on occasion.
  — Murat Ates, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025