How to Use paramour in a Sentence

paramour

noun
  • During their run-in, her past paramour shoots her in the chest.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • To him, the focus on his boldface paramours damaged the film.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Ginuwine’s whole life was changed by the arrival of his paramour.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The part of her Russian paramour, Vadime, is given over to Tomás Cruz, a pop and jazz singer.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Bryant’s lead guitar playing can tear a whole in the sky or coo like a paramour.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 13 July 2021
  • Blanche boasts of having had a hundred and forty-three paramours.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This earth is nude / This woman is a paramour / This wind is strong / This dream is death.
    — Jonathan Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Jax is her best friend Stassi’s on-again, off-again paramour.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
  • In the version that made it to theaters, Alex is drowned by her paramour and then shot by his wife.
    — Esther Zuckerman, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The paramours will find out if business can be mixed with pleasure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • One such ghost comes in the form of Adam Scott as Clyde, Jenna's former high school paramour.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But her longtime paramour, the Joker, doesn’t join her onscreen for the movie.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Compounding the problem: The boy was her ex-paramour’s nephew.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Or because her paramour Boy Capel was said to bestow them on her?
    — Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Frédéric Chopin, who spent the winter of 1838 on the island with his then-paramour, George Sand, nearly froze to death there.
    — Andrew Ferren, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • Check friends, rivals, grudge holders, lovers, and would-be paramours.
    — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The monk, whose name has been linked with that of his paramour, Héloïse, was an early supporter of Jews in France.
    — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The other man, played by Haynes, comes to his paramour’s defense and fights back against the attackers.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 29 July 2023
  • Kim Staunton is the smartest woman in the room as Olivia’s handmaiden and Sir Toby’s paramour.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 30 Nov. 2019
  • His paramour would allegedly log into the account and read the drafts.
    — Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2018
  • That last name was the killer’s true one; the others the aliases of the bigamist who went from bilking paramours and brides to murdering them.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Other males might not get eaten by their paramour at all.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • But Schmidt does think she’s had past paramours who never appeared on screen.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Like an evasive paramour, the Louvre may not always seem to be interested in a relationship.
    — Elaine Sciolino, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The tabloid details of the split—Bündchen and her new martial-artist paramour knock dreamboat quarterback down a few pegs and ruin his rep—provided too much material to the sharklike comics trawling for chum.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025

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