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 | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• That’s what Robby and his career-woman paramour are each doing in the chat room.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
• Think about it from the perspective of a potential paramour.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• But the pals–turned–paramours weren't the only yachties feeling frisky aboard Parsifal III on this week's episode.
  — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 29 May 2023
• The Duchess of Sussex chose the rather distinguished paramour style in April and wore the label again in October.
  — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 10 Dec. 2018
• Not the other paramour — the windmill had heard of Luke’s wicked ways — who shamed the woman for what had happened within its walls.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• Too bad his paramour, Ellaria Sand, didn’t seem to learn from Oberyn’s mistake.
  — vanityfair.com, 12 July 2017
• Reynolds' Wade is now working as a used car salesman and no longer dating his longtime paramour Vanessa (Morena Baccarin).
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 July 2024
• Swift herself is like a heartbreak guide to her faithful student, offering a few reflective lines as Abrams recovers from an older paramour.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024