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paragraph

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


NOUN
indentation
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Immediately, the first word of the second paragraph of it was jumped on.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Some self-styled guardians of journalism think I should include a paragraph like the preceding one in every article I write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

I delete the last paragraph, and in its place, I try my best to write the truth.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

That was far too many paragraphs without talking baseball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

"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

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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

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

That it had reached her at all, said a good deal for Mrs Gildea's fame as a freely paragraphed newspaper correspondent.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed

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

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

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

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

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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