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UK
/pˈæɹəɡɹˌæf/
]
[ US /ˈpæɹəˌɡɹæf, ˈpɛɹəˌɡɹæf/ ]
[ US /ˈpæɹəˌɡɹæf, ˈpɛɹəˌɡɹæf/ ]
VERB
-
divide into paragraphs, as of text
This story is well paragraphed - write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
-
write about in a paragraph
All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper
NOUN
- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
How To Use paragraph In A Sentence
- There is a typo in the last paragraph – it should read absorbed, not adsorbed. FAITH • by Aaron Polson
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- Each paragraph begins on a new line.
- These last three paragraphs will get you by the usual, garden-variety botany mid-term.
- Other student-poets cleaved to the justified left margin; still others wrote in paragraphs.
- But then, you reread the first sentence of this paragraph, see the word "binding" and become stressed out even more. Taylor Nunley: Early Decision, Late Opinion
- The moment of revelation came in the last two paragraphs.
- The amendments to the Armed Forces Act include a provision under which the contracts of the professional soldiers would include a paragraph for precursory agreement for participation in missions abroad.
- In his Decision Letter dated the 8th November 1999 the Inspector dealt with locus in paragraphs 3-11.
- The arbitral tribunal may rule on a plea referred to in paragraph of this article either as a preliminary question or in an award on the merits.