Example Sentences

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“If I’m in this situation, how many other paras are on the brink?”

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021

I was discharged from the Army with the rank of lieutenant, and now I’m a reservist in the paras.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

More than two decades later, with no sign of "les paras" coming to Bozize's rescue, his political future looks uncertain.

From Reuters • Jan. 7, 2013

As the paras tried to get the survivors out of Paulis, the Simbas followed them back to the rutted dirt airstrip where the C-130 waited.

From Time Magazine Archive

We paras want everybody to be like us, so we can endure being what we are!

From The Hate Disease by Leinster, Murray