How to Use unicorn in a Sentence

unicorn

noun
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  • Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The unicorn's horn must be maintained to be in good health.
    — Phil Boucher, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The unicorn turned out to be a pile of rotting meat in a trenchcoat.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The justice was riding on a unicorn, the reins in her hands.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The temptation can be to try to thread the needle, to find the unicorn hire.
    — Ryan Weissmueller, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • When the unicorn’s mouth is open, multi-colored lights flash in the skull and through the horn.
    — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Toddler Bahia climbed out of a boat and up the plank to reclaim her unicorn.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Then, dance the night away beneath the disco ball, which is of course unicorn-shaped.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
  • To me, this made Fanny a unicorn: a woman with a good job and a house of her own.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • The pair were cast as unicorns and painted the colors of the rainbow with bright chalk sticks.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • My daughter said there had to be a verse about unicorns.
    — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The few unicorns the country has birthed are baby-sized.
    — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Landmarks like this are few and far between, and the price makes this place a true unicorn.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Reuters China, not the US, is the home to the most unicorns—startups worth over $1 billion.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • Choose between rainbow clouds or unicorns with horns and ears that stick out of the box.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
  • One of Rhonita Miller’s nieces plays with a stuffed unicorn at her aunt's home.
    — César Rodríguez, Time, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Recreate this big mood with a cute red suit, and don’t forget the unicorn.
    — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 1 Aug. 2019
  • For us, this was like seeing a unicorn, or a flock of unicorns.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • First, some market truths—more and more unicorns are now found outside of the US.
    — Hemant Mohapatra, Quartz India, 4 Dec. 2019
  • For me and my daughters, unicorns are a very real part of our world.
    — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But what about a 5-foot unicorn made out of flowers, a pair of alpacas named Ant and Dec and a best man?
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2020
  • In an analog world, Polaroid was a unicorn in a dray horse herd.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Within the flowers are a lion, a unicorn, and a boar, pulled from the coats of arms of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And then one night, waylaid in Spain, Stan finds his unicorn at a pickup game.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • Next to him is a purple unicorn with a pink tutu and a rainbow mane.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • But doesn’t being a unicorn or the largest player mean something to you?
    — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Imagine a unicorn crossed with Jabba the Hut and shrunk to fit in the palm of your hand: the caterpillar of a cecropia moth.
    — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • Like many young girls her age, Charlotte seems to have a penchant for unicorns.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2019
  • On the other side of Cohen, Lucy wore a fairy unicorn costume, complete with a pink and purple tutu and white wings.
    — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Unless, of course, the two sides somehow reach a settlement, though at this point, that seems about as likely as a unicorn winning the Daytona 500.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024

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