Paragraphs
We organise what we write into sentences and paragraphs. A paragraph begins on a new line within the text and there is often a blank line between paragraphs. A paragraph usually contains more than one sentence and it is usually about one topic. …

paragraph | American Dictionary

paragraph
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpær·əˌɡræf/(abbreviationpar.)
a short part of a text that begins on a new line and consists of one or more sentences dealing with a single idea

paragraph | Business English

paragraph
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpærəɡrɑːf/ us /ˈpærəɡræf/(written abbreviationpara)
one of the parts that a piece of writing is divided into, consisting of one or more sentences and beginning on a new line:
What ideas is the author trying to express in the first paragraph?
the opening/closing/introductory paragraphThe closing paragraph of the article is not very convincing.

Examples of paragraph

paragraph
It begins with a short paragraph of acknowledgements.
One such application is reported in the following paragraphs.
The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents.
The results of the next two paragraphs make the conclusion virtually certain.
Of course, this repetition has also to be performed now with the amendments analogous to those specified in the preceding paragraphs of this last section.
The largest of these corresponds precisely to the growth rate mentioned in the first paragraph of this section.
Furthermore, and pertinent to this paragraph, they are extremely interested in supporting a multilingual presence of the site.
Activation decreases with the number of words, sentences and paragraphs elapsed as the algorithm proceeds through the text.
The final counts for the main rating task were 12 words, 10 sentences, 1 read paragraph, and 1 spontaneous paragraph.
The last paragraph of the note had more than mere formal significance.
The remainder of this section gives a proof of the expression (14) and discusses some points which arise from the preceding paragraph.
The remainder of this paragraph is from this source.
These results indicate that simplified texts exhibited more semantic similarity within sentences and within paragraphs than did authentic texts.
Bewilderingly, like her point lace, her story's introductory proprieties are delayed until the second paragraph.
Unfortunately all are dismissed in a couple of paragraphs.
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Collocations withparagraph

paragraph

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brief paragraph
The reason is set out in a briefparagraph.
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