paraison
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Inspector General André Vladimir Paraison said the president called him at 1:46 a.m. and said, “Paraison! Man, hurry up! I’m in trouble! Come quickly and save my life.”
From Seattle Times
Edwin Paraison, a former Haitian diplomat and executive director of a foundation that seeks to strengthen ties between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, said he would be surprised if international leaders didn’t have a plan B.
From Seattle Times
Paraison noted that more than 600 soldiers who recently received training in Mexico could work alongside with police.
From Seattle Times
Paraison has seen large-scale deportations before, in the nineteen-nineties, when hundreds of Haitian immigrants and some Dominicans of Haitian descent were simply picked up and dumped at the border by Dominican authorities without being allowed to collect their belongings or notify their families.
From The New Yorker
A few weeks ago, at a Haitian-American community meeting in Miami, Edwin Paraison, the former minister to Haitians living abroad, warned that the deportations can quickly dissolve into an urgent humanitarian crisis.
From The New Yorker
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
