PLAIN in a Sentence

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For PLAIN, below is one of 258 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLAIN
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plain
 a.  simple or ordinary
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  That was a plain statement of the cloudy purpose which had driven him in headlong to Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Brent liked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keep Stuart company.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  All shades of red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty's plain red hair, Camilla's strawberry blonde, Randa's coppery auburn and small Betsy's carrot top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Honey had the odd lashless look of a rabbit, and India could be described by no other word than plain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Under the supervision of the Ladies' Hospital Committee, this was plain hard work and no fun at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  There was a deep, almost fanatic glow in her eyes that for a moment lit up her plain little face and made it beautiful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She met Melanie's eyes and the same thought was plain in both faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  She knew that the feeling of triumph surging through her was certain to be plain in her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  Crying is the refuge of plain women.
17  The building style is plain, with very little ornament.
18  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.
19  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.
20  You could see a rough path descend like a steep stair into the plain.
21  Boston has had a fair share of cold, rainy and just plain dreary weather over the last couple of months
22  I like the interior but the exterior is a bit plain, stale, and hard looking.
23  The pretty girl likes plain boy friend as foil.
24  Whatsoever makes manifest, that is, makes plain and clear.
25  The wind used to whip across the plain in this season.
26  Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible.
27  Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
28  It is just plain malicious software designed to corrupt your device or steal your information.
29  She spent hours sitting alone, in abysmal misery, because it seemed to be in plain sight, yet she couldn't define it.
30  The bride, instead of being disguised in tawdry stuffs of gold and silver, appeared in a negligee of plain blue satin, without any other jewels than her eyes, which far outshone all that ever was produced by the mines of Golconda.