Sample Sentences for
paragon
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    I finally said to him, Tom-good gracious!-why don't you bring this paragon to supper?  (source)
    paragon = person who is a model of excellence
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    Send this paragon of yours to Ser Hugh and the others.†  (source)
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    Me—the manly paragon of romance—reduced to a gawky, inexperienced boy!†  (source)
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    Three-quarters of these people made Orfeo Quatta seem by comparison a paragon of stability.†  (source)
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    The finest pearls are called virgin pearls, or paragons; they form in isolation within the mollusk's tissue.†  (source)
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    city and proud seat Of Lucifer, so by allusion called Of that bright star to Satan paragoned;†  (source)
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    A paragon of scholarship.†  (source)
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    It was the fame of his electrical experiments and overall inventiveness that made him one of the paragons of the age.†  (source)
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    There was the shopping bag from Paragon Sporting Goods—tag of the pup tent dangling, King Kanopy, $43.99, just as crisp and new-looking as the day I'd bought it eight years before.†  (source)
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    My wife is one of those paragons—a woman who does not talk very much.†  (source)
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    Uncle Alfred was a paragon of maleness, too, in that he was rich and he dressed like a lumberjack; that he spent most of the day behind a desk did not influence his appearance.†  (source)
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    She is the paragon of all paragons of beauty, the reply to all desire, the bliss-bestowing goal of every hero's earthly and unearthly quest.†  (source)
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    Originally conceived as a bright boy more cursed with money than blessed with it, a boy who wanted more than anything to compile a good record so he could go to a good university because he had earned admission and not because his father had pulled strings, he had become to Jack a kind of simpering Goody Two-shoes, a postulant before the altar of knowledge rather than a sincere acolyte, an outward paragon of Boy Scout virtues, inwardly cynical, filled not with real brilliance (as he had first been conceived) but only with sly animal cunning.†  (source)
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