How to Use Paul Bunyan in a Sentence

Paul Bunyan

noun

• There was a restaurant about 15 miles away with a Paul Bunyan statue out in front.
  — Julia A. Morales, Seventeen, 1 Mar. 2023
• If Paul Bunyan had a panfish sidekick, this would be it.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 May 2022
• And then there's that whole Paul Bunyan, lumberjack look.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
• The thing was massive, the size of Paul Bunyan, if Bunyan were (a) a real person and (b) slightly better dressed.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
• Based on a local legend about a boy who battles a bear (a tale with echoes of both Hercules and Paul Bunyan), the festival is in its 45th year.
  — Bert Archer, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• Wisconsin also arrives on Nov. 25 to try to take back Paul Bunyan’s Axe.
  — Dave Campbell, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Barnes also stopped by a Paul Bunyan statue in Atlanta, Illinois.
  — Fox News, 22 June 2022
• Frontier tales tell of burly lumberjacks hurling axes to split trees (think Paul Bunyan).
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
• As always, the winner of the annual rivalry game will be awarded the Paul Bunyan Trophy.
  — Jordan Davis, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
• Within the pantheon of American folk heroes, no figure walks taller than Paul Bunyan.
  — Time, 23 June 2023
• Heck, even the academic decathlon teams playing for Paul Bunyan’s Pencil.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
• Russell was one of the game’s great originary figures, its brightest early star, a kind of Adam and a kind of Paul Bunyan, his litany of accomplishments absurd in its length and fable-like texture.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Disney told stories of folk heroes (Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan), princes and princesses, and even, occasionally, a mouse, all while leading the pack on ever-shifting technologies.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024