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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

My middle-school civics textbook barely dedicated a paragraph to this 1801 war between the U.S and a group of North African states, which has been described as “America’s first war on terrorism.”

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The framework’s first paragraph declares “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026

The first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US, Iran and allies will declare an "immediate and permanent" termination of military operations on "all fronts" - including Lebanon.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

I passed her a book and pointed to a paragraph about what they did with orphaned children.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

The official rules on estate recovery take up just three paragraphs on Medicaid’s website.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

She leafed through the pages, skimming for signs of Reed’s name among the dusty paragraphs and disjointed phrases, but the stories were gone.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The magnificent copes and vestments, of which there are some score, are merely tabulated, paragraphed, and photographed, and there is an end of them.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

The Lead.—The lead itself is always paragraphed separately.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

They are very brief, follow a prescribed form and, if necessary, are paragraphed in the same way as the letter.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker

But within three days the date of the wedding was fixed, and all the papers paragraphed it far and wide.

From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page

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

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