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paragraph

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


NOUN
indentation
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The key phrase in the previous paragraph is “give the president the power to tariff.”

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

Notably, the paragraph says nothing about the U.S. making arrangements for the safe passage of vessels, which Iran has seized on to attack ships that use a U.S.-coordinated route, the official said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

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

It is hard not to imagine de Vries, in his study in Amsterdam on a gray March morning, slitting open that reprint and running his eyes through the first paragraph.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Several clauses are joined or embedded in a sentence; several sentences make up a paragraph; several paragraphs make up a section, several sections a chapter, several chapters a book.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

What help is it to the reader to have a composition paragraphed?

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

Nobody likes to be paragraphed; and for my part I should only be too happy to extinguish the Sun and every other newspaper were it only in my power.'

From The Infernal Marriage by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

You have been most industriously paragraphed, in countless jests, about your penchant for pink teas, your expert knowledge of tatting, crocheting, and all that sort of stuff.

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

Rank, wealth, the notoriety that is paragraphed in the society papers, those are what Luce worships, and marries for.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

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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