paragon

In a sentence

Six example sentences with paragon, each labelled with its topic.

• The little library is a paragon of civic design, with daylight reaching every desk and no wasted corridor.

  Architecture

• Coaches still show that season's footage as a paragon of unselfish passing, four assists for every turnover.

  Basketball

• Her grandmother's stew became the family paragon, and every later cook was judged against one November afternoon.

  Cooking

• Critics call the story a paragon of the short form, twelve pages without a wasted line.

  Literature

• The Stoics imagined a sage as a paragon of wisdom, a figure nobody had met but everyone was meant to imitate.

  Philosophy

• The film's editing is taught as a paragon of pacing, with no scene running a second longer than it needs.

  Movies

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