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
• 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
• Choose between rainbow clouds or unicorns with horns and ears that stick out of the box.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
• For us, this was like seeing a unicorn, or a flock of unicorns.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• The addition of 7-foot-3-inch Kristaps Porzingis, a once and perhaps future unicorn, has made that a truth.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Jerseys, caps, visors, the back of cellphones and, bending down on one knee with a Sharpie at the ready, the giant unicorn’s shorts.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
• Mobley, the 20-year-old unicorn, is the rightful Rookie of the Year frontrunner.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
• Seeing a 100 mph fastball used to be like finding a unicorn.
  — David Brandt, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• Young-Byron is flattered when she is referred to as a unicorn.
  — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 28 Apr. 2022
• Most corporate leaders don’t know how to build a new unicorn from scratch.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Ware is something of a unicorn for Kentucky as the rare top-40 recruit to stick around for three years without a clear path to a starting role.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2022
• Penn State is a unicorn of a basketball team, so reliant on 3s and wide-open offense.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2023
• The unicorn must never be free of its chain, never leave its tiny enclosure.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• In other words, that’s the difference between a Buckeye and a unicorn.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• So be sure to generate those unicorns for your next YouTube upload, kids.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024
• In most of the world, that's the equivalent of stumbling across a unicorn that's holding a few winning lottery tickets in its teeth.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2022
• Residents said that wasn’t the first time the unicorn appeared; the magical being was seen snow-blowing in 2020.
  — Maura Zurick, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2022
• Kids and adults can ride zebras, dogs, cats, lions, tigers, unicorns, or a seven-foot-tall giraffe.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 8 July 2023
• In one case the floating cursor is in the shape of a unicorn, a nod to a particular child's affinity for the legendary creature.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
• They are sometimes referred to as ‘unicorns’ by fans as a result of their rarity.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• There is a teddy bear and a baseball cap and a stuffed unicorn and a doll and a small Eiffel Tower and a T-Rex and many other memories piled in the form of toys.
  — Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
• To go all out, look for statues of mythical creatures like dragons and unicorns, too.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024