paragraph
Example Sentences
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From BBC
When approached, he showed that he had about half a dozen paragraphs done and was cursing his fate as a newspaper deadline writer.
From Los Angeles Times
So I’ll go through the paragraph several times until I can finally zip past that line.
The paragraphs are brief, often only one sentence long.
They are the queen and king of carefully calibrated consistency, and one wishes that from time to time Mr. Serrano would follow their lead and lose some of the repetition and one-word paragraphs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.