PLUSH in a Sentence

Learn PLUSH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

22 example sentences for PLUSH, such as:

1. The scent was of horsehair and plush and Florida Water.
2. But Melanie did the honors of her house as though plush curtains and brocade sofas were hers.
3. I had been sleeping, curled up in a red plush seat, for a long while when we reached Black Hawk.
4. Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves.
5. And he said that I had nothing fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLUSH
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plush
 a.  richly luxurious and expensive
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The upstairs, so rumor said, was fitted out with the finest of plush upholstered furniture, heavy lace curtains and imported mirrors in gilt frames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  But Melanie did the honors of her house as though plush curtains and brocade sofas were hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  The walls were covered with rich dark paper, the ceilings were high and the house was always dim, for the windows were overdraped with plum-colored plush hangings that shut out most of the sunlight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched antimacassar which scraped unpleasantly against the pink fold of skin above his collar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
5  Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The scent was of horsehair and plush and Florida Water.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Before a tar-paper shack, at a gateless gate, a man in rough brown dogskin coat and black plush cap with lappets was watching her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Tonight, as every night, she was irritated by having to push the old plush chair out of the way before she could open the closet door.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  I had been sleeping, curled up in a red plush seat, for a long while when we reached Black Hawk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
10  It was there I first saw him, sitting on a low bench by the door, his plush cap in his hands, his bare feet tucked apologetically under the seat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
11  I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
12  When one passed an old man, one could see nothing of his face but a red nose sticking out between a frosted beard and a long plush cap.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
13  The oaks were putting out ochre yellow leaves: in the garden the red daisies were like red plush buttons.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  And he said that I had nothing fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
15  Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
Example Sentence:
1  Now situated in a lavishly renovated, French Renaissance-style hotel, the facility features plush VIP accommodations and an ornate restaurant.
2  Shoppers are buying red lanterns, scrolls with poetic couplets, paper cuttings and plush snake toys to express their best wishes for the Lunar New Year and decorate their homes.