Sample Sentences for
paragon
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    I'm always teasing Margot about being a paragon of virtue these days, and she hates it.  (source)
    paragon = perfect example
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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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    Me—the manly paragon of romance—reduced to a gawky, inexperienced boy!†  (source)
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    Send this paragon of yours to Ser Hugh and the others.†  (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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    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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    My wife is one of those paragons—a woman who does not talk very much.†  (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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    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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    Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point — one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed — they contrived in the end to reach it.†  (source)
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