How to Use unicorn in a Sentence

unicorn

noun
Definition of unicornnext
  • Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The unicorn's horn must be maintained to be in good health.
    — Phil Boucher, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The unicorn turned out to be a pile of rotting meat in a trenchcoat.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The justice was riding on a unicorn, the reins in her hands.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Toddler Bahia climbed out of a boat and up the plank to reclaim her unicorn.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Then, dance the night away beneath the disco ball, which is of course unicorn-shaped.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
  • To me, this made Fanny a unicorn: a woman with a good job and a house of her own.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • My daughter said there had to be a verse about unicorns.
    — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Choose between rainbow clouds or unicorns with horns and ears that stick out of the box.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For us, this was like seeing a unicorn, or a flock of unicorns.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • But what about a 5-foot unicorn made out of flowers, a pair of alpacas named Ant and Dec and a best man?
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Within the flowers are a lion, a unicorn, and a boar, pulled from the coats of arms of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And then one night, waylaid in Spain, Stan finds his unicorn at a pickup game.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • Next to him is a purple unicorn with a pink tutu and a rainbow mane.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Imagine a unicorn crossed with Jabba the Hut and shrunk to fit in the palm of your hand: the caterpillar of a cecropia moth.
    — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • Investors had high hopes that the trio of recent big IPOs would be enough to crack the door open and let the flood of unicorns through to the public markets.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • So the great unicorn of deposits is one that has significant deposits of the light two and the heavy two.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In the world of Pokémon, seeing a Mew is almost akin to seeing a unicorn.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The addition of 7-foot-3-inch Kristaps Porzingis, a once and perhaps future unicorn, has made that a truth.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • This means that the lower-tier VCs invest in deals that do not become unicorns.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Jerseys, caps, visors, the back of cellphones and, bending down on one knee with a Sharpie at the ready, the giant unicorn’s shorts.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
  • Mobley, the 20-year-old unicorn, is the rightful Rookie of the Year frontrunner.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Retail investors should not have to look to the U.S. markets to invest in the best Southeast Asian unicorns.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune Asia, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The company has gone on to raise new funding and become a unicorn.
    — Rebecca Szkutak, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Within moments, she was carried out to sea, adrift and alone, clinging to the unicorn’s neck.
    — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Seeing a 100 mph fastball used to be like finding a unicorn.
    — David Brandt, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • Young-Byron is flattered when she is referred to as a unicorn.
    — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Catherine Shock and her family had the unicorn last week.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
  • And a unicorn—that is, a company that will reach the $1 billion level in value—is born.
    — Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang, TIME, 22 May 2024
  • The mini vibe is aptly shaped like a unicorn to transport you to your most fantastical fantasies.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024

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