How to Use paladin in a Sentence

paladin

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  • Regé-Jean Page, has a small part here as a paladin named Xenk.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • One of our recent books has a trans man paladin on the cover.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
  • But who was this paladin of the West going to protect civilization from?
    — Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Her first character was a priest of Mystra in the 2nd Edition, and her favorite character is a 3.5 Edition half-dragon monk that is now a paladin.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2018
  • Adams, 22, has been a paladin in the paint for the Thunder in these playoffs, but the nobility of making and rejecting shots and pulling down rebounds is possibly the only thing to have escaped his grasp.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 27 May 2016
  • The game puts a nice slant on the classic character tropes offering speedy ranged fighter the Gunslinger, the tank-like Savage, the magic-using Alchitect and the paladin-style Vindicator.
    — WIRED, 19 July 2012
  • President Donald Trump, who has seized on the protests to recast himself as a paladin of order, said in tweet Tuesday afternoon that the incursion was reason to bring soldiers into the city.
    — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020
  • Players design characters that can range from humans to elves to dwarves and beyond and then select a class such as paladin, fighter, ranger, barbarian or several others.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Samara is this universe’s approximation of a paladin, a Justicar.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • That said, both channel a similar irreverence for fantasy adventures — and make an argument for always having a paladin in your party.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The author provides valuable information about John Quincy Adams as an antislavery paladin, but his treatment of Lincoln constitutes a superficial, misleading and often inaccurate caricature.
    — Michael Burlingame, WSJ, 4 July 2017

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