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
• 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 letter had had the paradoxical effect of distracting from the plight of Gazans.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That seems paradoxical when each year brings a new crop of exciting findings.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
• Few rock bands can claim to have brought an entire aesthetic to the mainstream, as The Cure did with their somewhat paradoxical video brand of brightly gloomy goth-pop.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2020
• Writing in the late 1930s, Steinbeck too observed the impact of hunger on the working class, and how the paradoxical waste of food destruction would enrage those on the brink of survival.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 28 May 2020
• Image What accounts for this paradoxical notion of both old and new?
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• To the paradoxical dynamic that drives this artist’s finest work: rising, and falling, and rising.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• What the Ravens instead produced was 60-plus minutes of paradoxical play.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2020
• In many ways, the pandemic has never felt quite so paradoxical.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
• One paradoxical result is that doing things for their own sake has become a profitable move.
  — Krzysztof Pelc, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Its dominance has had a paradoxical impact on the development of regional structures.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
• Maybe even more important than anyone onscreen, Hiro Murai’s direction of the first two episodes gives the show a paradoxical balance of Instagram-grid perfection coupled with frantic instability.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024