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View definitions for paragraph

paragraph

noun as in article

noun as in indentation

noun as in passage

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Example Sentences

Think about that for a second if after the preceding paragraph you remain convinced of the infallibility of our system.

It goes on like that for another half a paragraph, but you get the idea.

For a writer who was a master of reduction, never one to linger on the passing view, this was an unusually effulgent paragraph.

If the story fell apart by the first paragraph, it would not save itself by the end.

Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.

So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.

I mark this by inserting a paragraph-mark ( ) at the beginning of each tern.

If we get to the bottom of it, we shall find that the countess inspired the paragraph that the Evening Mercury had to-night.

I would not have believed it; it came to me quite as a shock—that paragraph in the late Mercury.

In the original draft of the instructions was a curious paragraph which, on second thoughts, it was determined to omit.

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On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paragraph, such as: chapter, clause, detail, item, passage, and piece.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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