Explore Plain through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like simple or bare. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Plain in a sentence
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Plain meaning
- Flat, level.
- Simple, unaltered.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
Synonyms of Plain
Using Plain
- The main meaning on this page is: Flat, level. | Simple, unaltered. | Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Useful related words include: simple, undecorated, unadorned, homely.
- In the example corpus, plain often appears in combinations such as: plain and, in plain, just plain.
Example sentences (20)
An injunction by the Snowy Mountains Brumby Sustainability & Management Group had blocked the plan to remove all wild horses from Nungar Plain, and to cut horse populations in two other priority management areas of Cooleman Plain and Kiandra Plain.
The plain itself is subdivided into the higher plain (gravel-strewn and not very fertile) and the lower plain (rich in water sources and arable terrain).
When beavers build dams, water slows and flows out beyond a stream or river’s banks to the soil of the flood plain, and when the beavers need more wood to expand the dam, they dig canals that radiate further out into the flood plain.
Having sex with a trainee, even one who is not under his direct authority, was as plain a violation of those orders, and as plain a potential - if not actual - conflict of interest, as can be imagined.
This is where people speak plain English and are not afraid to speak plain English.
He found her incriminating diary entries had been “written in plain language carrying their plain meaning”.
Retailers have also sounded alarm over the impact of plain and standardized packaging on contraband tobacco, following reports of an uptick in the illicit market in Australia after their own adoption of plain packaging.
Three are the classics: Plain Jane, Double Plain Jane and a Bacon Jane (so, a bacon cheeseburger).
Video, Shoes Link Gunman To Jamaica Plain Murders, Prosecutors SayThe man charged with killing two innocent bystanders in Jamaica Plain earlier this month pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of murder.
Bag lunches were carried in plain brown paper bags; packages were wrapped in plain brown paper.
Exits There are four exits from the Tyrrhenian Sea (north to south): Basins The Tyrrhenian Basin is divided into two basins (or plains), the Vavilov plain and the Marsili plain.
Gowers (1954), p. 1 A substantive objection by Vallins to "the cult of 'plain English'" was his view that verbose phrases lose important nuances when reduced to plain words.
Haze over the North China Plain and the Lüliang Mountains of Shanxi Natural colour satellite image of a smog event in the heart of northern China Dense smog settled over the North China Plain on February 20, 2011.
If a trick begins with a plain suit card and a later player cannot follow suit, the player may choose freely to either sluff (discard a card of another plain suit), or ruff (trump the trick by playing a trump card).
In a valley, a plain is enclosed on two sides but in other cases a plain may be delineated by a complete or partial ring of hills, by mountains or cliffs.
In the languages of those families that do retain plain velars, both the plain and labialized velars are actually pre-velar, perhaps to make them more distinct from the uvulars which may actually be post-velar.
Just about any other foodstuff can be wrapped in a tortilla, and in Mexico, it varies from rice, to meat (plain or in sauce), to cream, to vegetables, to cheese, or simply with plain chile peppers or fresh salsa.
Padding Attacks against plain RSA There are a number of attacks against plain RSA as described below.
Plain flour Flour that does not have a leavening agent is called plain or all-purpose flour.
Plain text files are almost universal in programming; a source code file containing instructions in a programming language is almost always a plain text file.
Common combinations with plain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- plain and 24×
- in plain 23×
- just plain 21×
- the plain 12×
- of plain 12×
- jamaica plain 10×
- plain sight 10×
- plain text 9×
- plain old 7×
- flood plain 6×