How to Use unicorn in a Sentence

unicorn

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most corporate leaders don’t know how to build a new unicorn from scratch.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The big picture: Investors and founders should avoid pitfalls that took down high-flying unicorns of 2021.
  — Claire Rychlewski, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
• Ware is something of a unicorn for Kentucky as the rare top-40 recruit to stick around for three years without a clear path to a starting role.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2022
• Rooney is that rarest of creatures, a unicorn of the 21st century, a celebrity author of literary fiction.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 23 Sep. 2024
• Books are themed; select anything from unicorns to zoo animals, whatever strikes their fancy the most.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024