PLY in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for PLY, such as:

1. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
2. John's been plying me with drinks all evening.
3. Our company's ferryboats ply across the English Channel everyday.
4. Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food.
5. In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLY
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ply
 v.  bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Upon the first proposal made by Candide, however, the Levantine captain had already tacked about, and made the crew ply their oars quicker than a bird cleaves the air.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
2  The man had ceased to ply her with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
3  This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
4  Three emotions made the ply of human life.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
5  First, in front of all, Palinurus steered the close column; the rest under orders ply their course by his.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
6  Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
7  She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
8  So, they plied their oars once more, and I looked out for anything like a house.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
9  I found that Mrs. Heep gradually got nearer to me, and that Uriah gradually got opposite to me, and that they respectfully plied me with the choicest of the eatables on the table.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
10  But though he repeatedly plied Stepan Arkadyevitch with questions as to the possibility of obtaining a certificate without actually communicating, Stepan Arkadyevitch maintained that it was out of the question.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
11  Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbed up her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  It was the same at supper where they all plied him with questions about the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  They felt that a thousand inimical eyes looked at them through the unshaded front window and the four women, with fear in their hearts, bent their heads and plied their needles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  She bathed Madame Ratignolle's face with cologne, while Robert plied the fan with unnecessary vigor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
15  Hold them there, Sagamore," said Hawkeye, looking coolly backward over this left shoulder, while he still plied his paddle; "keep them just there.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence:
1  Our company's ferryboats ply across the English Channel everyday.
2  In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.
3  Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food.
4  John's been plying me with drinks all evening.