Paragraphs
['pærəɡrɑ:fs] or ['pærə,græf]
Examples
- We could iv'ry one be a Wellington--that would please ye, Mr. Helstone--and sich paragraphs as we could contrive for t' papers! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Don't waste whole paragraphs on me. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One of the paragraphs of the anonymous letter, I said, contains some sentences of minute personal description. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Heat, if properly regulated and controlled, would never be injurious to man; hence in the following paragraphs heat will be considered merely in its helpful capacity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The production of light by candle, oil, and gas will be considered in the following paragraphs, while illumination by electricity will be reserved for a later Chapter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We started in, but about every two minutes I would have to scratch out whole paragraphs and insert the same things said in another and better way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Solomon