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paragraph

[par-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


NOUN
indentation
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I would worry about offending my children, but they stopped reading after the first paragraph.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

The final Deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

It’s almost too stunning to carry on after hearing such news—but to a second paragraph of this entry we must go.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

His victory speech, in the middle of the night, was, paragraph by paragraph, implicit about his ambitions and in totality almost explicit.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

Beneath the paragraph were a pair of photographs.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

For David Harbour, it was the messages pouring in from friends — not the usual “great job!” an actor receives when a program is airing, but long blocks of text, paragraphs dripping with emotion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Evans said he did see brief maternity summaries - "usually a couple of paragraphs" - attached to each baby's neonatal notes.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The final summit declaration consisted of six concise paragraphs, mirroring the brevity of the 2025 Hague Summit declaration.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Its policy statement on Wednesday consisted of four short paragraphs, while previous statements, such as the one in April, included traditional boilerplate items, comments on recent events and details of policy votes by committee members.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

I just didn’t feel like writing three paragraphs on why the book is ragabash* Didn’t like it, huh?

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

One day Field said to Bok: "I am going to make you the most widely paragraphed man in America."

From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok

As the matter was received over the wire he paragraphed it so that each printer had exactly three lines, thus enabling the matter to be set up very expeditiously in the newspaper offices.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

Their father was much paragraphed in the social journals, and their mother also.

From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Let the reader only remember what I have just said, that most of them are miserably reported, paragraphed and stopped, and make allowance accordingly.

From A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield by John Charles Ryle

Well, it's been paragraphed in all the papers.

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett

Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Correctly identify and use conventions of the personal narrative genre, including structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.

From The Guardian Jan. 22, 2013

Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2012

Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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