How to Use paean in a Sentence

paean

noun
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  • Guyville was a paean to a certain time in the life of a girl.
    — Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2018
  • It’s been a proud paean to the land, people, and frankly, fun.
    — Vogue, 3 June 2022
  • The Biden picture book from his trip abroad has been a paean to friendship.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • In the report, it had been made to sound like a paean to localism.
    — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There are paeans to the beauty of Jimi Hendrix and Prince.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Cameron Crowe’s paean to being young and mixed up in Seattle.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • Mr Jones’s paean of praise to Mr Webb’s perfect little song is full of gems such as this.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Mr Johnson rarely opens his mouth without a paean to the beloved but ailing NHS.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Barnett begins this paean to the seashell with a description of how they are made.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • Kelly's book is sublime, a true paean to the power of good food and even better love.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Within weeks, the pair were hooked on the sport; the show that grew out of that is both a paean to the game and has absolutely nothing to do with it.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Ever since, paeans to her have been a motif of black music and letters.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2019
  • The great Wall Street philosopher Andy Kessler recently wrote a paean to the virtues of going public.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Just as Marcus’s paean to oneness, law, and order didn’t, don’t, and will never get it.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The ending, ‘Zyzzyva’, is a paean to a genus of tropical weevil.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Throughout the multiple stops, there were paeans to Biden's roots in this town, where crowds lined the streets to cheer his motorcade.
    — Chris Megerian, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Throughout the multiple stops, there were paeans to Biden’s roots in this town, where crowds lined the streets to cheer his motorcade.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Khaled’s paean may be the high-water mark of the bidet’s profile in American pop culture — so far.
    — Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Today, Kerala sings paeans to and pines for his prosperous and just reign.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The series is a tribute to sleuthing—to quests—and a wide-eyed paean to magical realism.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As a result, the building is not exactly a paean to openness.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • With Shark Week, the Discovery Channel's annual paean to the ocean's apex predators, in full swing, many of us have sharks on the brain.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2012
  • But rest assured that Shattuck’s memoir is much more than a paean to Thoreau.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Romances are not only tales of love between partners, but paeans to self-love.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But that admission would have come only after a lengthy paean to the mighty Russian armed forces.
    — Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The paean to tribalism is pleasing to China — and profitable.
    — Armond White, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Her stream-of-consciousness paean ends with what might be a description of her own soon-to-be rock stardom.
    — Roy Trakin, Variety, 11 June 2022
  • His book, a paean to Mr. Carter, is ironic and smart, a social history and a poignant coming-of-age story.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • And a character embodied by Jones delivers this paean to the purity of baseball without so much as a subtle nod to that fact.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
  • American action films don’t always know what to do with big, dramatic sentiment, sometimes eschewing it entirely in favor of heroes who speak in quips or paeans to their families.
    — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

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