Sentence examples for paragraph contains from inspiring English sources

With rare exceptions, the first paragraph contains nothing needed to understand the rest of the article.

This paragraph contains nearly every sound in English ("oy" is an exception, which may upset New Yorkers).

Later, a single paragraph contains the ostentatiously alliterative phrases "common courtship costs" and "sexual satisfaction raises self-esteem".

It's about a precocious 12-year-old, and its opening paragraph contains a question for the ages.

Occasionally the detail, piled dizzyingly high, can be overwhelming, yet since every paragraph contains some glittering nugget, it would be absurd to complain.

His first published paragraph contains a snooty sketch of a cleaner who inconvenienced him, at Heathrow, on his way to a luxurious vacation in India.

Correction: At his request, we have altered the paragraph containing views attributed to Olivier Nicolaï.

One paragraph, containing a year-old anecdote about Mr. Clinton's social life, should have gone in the trash can; another should have been purged of its zippiness.

(Since the news sometimes failed to conform to Time's printing schedule, the paragraph containing the denouement of the story often began "At week's end").

The next paragraph contained a surprising revelation: "Hatto, now 76, has not played in public in more than 25 years because of an ongoing battle with cancer.

The paragraph containing Karl Marx's line is quoted in this book; and if I read a more entertaining and thought-provoking work on cultural phenomena this year, I will be, frankly, astonished.