How to Use paradoxical in a Sentence

paradoxical

adjective

• But of course, that’s not paradoxical at all, just not what we’re used to.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• The state of being that guy, at the least the public version of him, is a paradoxical one.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Since the Arab spring, there has seen a resurgence, though, which shows the paradoxical effects of progress.
  — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2016
• All of which makes Mnuchin one of the most unusual — and paradoxical — figures of the Trump era.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• Where Mr Bregman grates is in his claim to be the first to wrestle with deep, paradoxical truths about mankind.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• The line sums up the absurd, paradoxical world of witchcraft.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 May 2017
• The letter had had the paradoxical effect of distracting from the plight of Gazans.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Her decision to do so, at such a late stage of her life, was paradoxical.
  — Bonnie Anderson, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
• Hoadley took on the task of putting all the pieces of the puzzle together to explain this paradoxical object.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2020
• The year grinding to a close was a paradoxical one for cinema.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• This paradoxical result has to do with the fact that rising rates do more than depress bond prices.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The idea behind the blood test is somewhat paradoxical: If blood amyloid levels are very low, the patient may well have plaques in the brain.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Hendrix seems to me to come from the future—from some other plane—and also in a paradoxical way from the past, too, like Bob Dylan.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Those dual investments, the human and the state, hang in paradoxical tension, and that paradox is the core of Kadare.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 10 Jan. 2018
• The video portrays the paradoxical feeling of the mind running at high speed amid the solitude of stay-at-home pandemic life.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Yes, flip-flops can—while paradoxical to some—be refined.
  — Ashley W. Simpson, Robb Report, 2 May 2023
• That’s one of the paradoxical elements of Black women in food.
  — Korsha Wilson, Saveur, 3 Jan. 2024
• Such paradoxical feelings attached to the simple fact of mobility took me back in a rush to the 1970s New York of my youth.
  — Elizabeth Kendall, New York Times, 1 July 2020
• What does stick in my craw is the idea that the actual lottery is all that’s left, which, in a paradoxical way, is why My Lottery Dream Home is such a balm for the soul.
  — Angela Serratore, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2018
• There is nothing paradoxical about people on the upper tier of the working class playing a leading role in the left.
  — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• That’s not paradoxical; the greater amount of white matter doesn’t mean habitual liars are more inclined to stick to rules and morals.
  — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
• That might sound paradoxical, but such shapes might do better than a circle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2024
• That might sound paradoxical, but steak at a discount costs a lot more than hamburger meat.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 6 May 2024
• The paradoxical truth of the matter is that cities can also serve as vital habitat for some parrot species.
  — Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• This is linked to something sort of paradoxical: DDT was off-patent, and the large companies started to see it as a money loser.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
• Ex-slaves relished seeing these paradoxical uses of the old slave pens.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• This human weakness helps to support a notion that may seem paradoxical: that the solution to the scourge of the deadline is more deadlines.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
• That seems paradoxical when each year brings a new crop of exciting findings.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
• Jolie wanders through the frame with a paradoxical blend of imperious diva and lost little girl.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024