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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

For the record, the first paragraph of the memorandum of understanding he and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed reads:

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

My eyes landed on the first sentence in the final paragraph.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"They are already identifying 70% of our hearts attacks from two paragraphs of text," said Swinburn.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Tipton and three others stood before the board, trading off paragraphs of a 12-minute statement to bypass the three-minute public-comment limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he had read it before—years ago, in the veterans’ hospital.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Whether you wrote as Jones, or Smith, or Robinson, you'd find Jones, Smith, or Robinson artfully puffed and paragraphed and thrust under people's noses in the papers.

From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

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

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

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett

But I have paragraphed it in the Nation, to which I refer you.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

I was lampooned, caricatured, and paragraphed in the newspapers, in a thousand different ways.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton

Determine 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