PLAINLY in a Sentence

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258 example sentences for PLAINLY, such as:

1. She heard the word very plainly.
2. Crying is the refuge of plain women.
3. My pet, it's written plainly on your face.
4. The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
5. The pretty girl likes plain boy friend as foil.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLAINLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plainly
 ad.  clearly; expressly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The red mark of her hand showed plainly on his white tired face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  What Melanie said was no more than Scarlett had been thinking but hearing it put into words infuriated her, shamed her as if her secret cowardice was written plainly in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  He came into view and the light of the lamp showed him plainly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  It's written as plainly on your face as hard work is written on your hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Mrs. Merriwether and many other Southerners were also doing business with the newcomers from the North, but the difference was that they did not like it and plainly showed they did not like it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  She paid off the teamsters and Hugh and, abruptly leaving them, walked toward the office, showing plainly by her manner that she did not care to be accompanied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
8  Her jaw dropped and fear and astonishment were written plainly in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  My pet, it's written plainly on your face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
10  Anything except this impersonal kindness that was written so plainly in his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
11  Her glance and accent so plainly included Rosedale in this privileged circle that his small eyes puckered with gratification, and a knowing smile drew up his moustache.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  I didn't suppose I should have to put it so plainly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
13  But if he recognized her meaning it failed to abash him, and he went on in the same tone: "I didn't mean to give offence; excuse me if I've spoken too plainly."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
14  Selden met this with an unusual seriousness: she had never seen him so little master of the situation, so plainly at the mercy of any obstructions she might put in his way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
15  She heard the word very plainly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  A policeman with plain clothes stood a dozen paces behind me watching me.
17  Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.
18  In general, a plain carpet makes a room look bigger.
19  The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
20  The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
21  Crying is the refuge of plain women.
22  The building style is plain, with very little ornament.
23  The trouble is that selling arms to this particular ally regularly involves 'commissions' - in plain language, bribes - to well-placed people including members of the Saudi ruling family.
24  I dropped the Ann from my name to defy my mother, who had insisted I be called by the refined name of Carole Ann, not plain old Carole.
25  You could see a rough path descend like a steep stair into the plain.
26  Boston has had a fair share of cold, rainy and just plain dreary weather over the last couple of months
27  I like the interior but the exterior is a bit plain, stale, and hard looking.
28  The pretty girl likes plain boy friend as foil.
29  Whatsoever makes manifest, that is, makes plain and clear.
30  The wind used to whip across the plain in this season.