PLAINS in a Sentence

Learn PLAINS 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.

For PLAINS, below is one of 258 sentences:
We verily, that Turnus may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on the plains, worthless lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLAINS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plain
 a.  simple or ordinary
plainly
 ad.  clearly; expressly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarcely had the first summer set in, when lord Anchises bids us spread our sails to fortune, and weeping I leave the shores and havens of my country, and the plains where once was Troy.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
2  A land of vast plains lies apart, the home of Mavors, in Thracian tillage, and sometime under warrior Lycurgus' reign; friendly of old to Troy, and their gods in alliance while our fortune lasted.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
3  Here the Locrians of Narycos have set their city, and here Lyctian Idomeneus beset the Sallentine plains with soldiery; here is the town of the Meliboean captain, Philoctetes' little Petelia fenced by her wall.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
4  Next we graze the high reefs and jutting rocks of Pachynus; and far off appears Camarina, forbidden for ever by oracles to move, and the Geloan plains, and vast Gela named after its river.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
5  He spoke, and paced on before them, and from above shews the shining plains; thereafter they leave the mountain heights.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
6  Thus they wander up and down over the whole region of broad vaporous plains, and scan all the scene.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
7  Some make ready to march afoot over the plains; some, mounted on tall horses, ride amain in clouds of dust.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
8  So many were the chosen princes who went in thirty ships to aid Troy, and cut the salt plains with brazen prow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
9  We verily, that Turnus may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on the plains, worthless lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
10  Fortune leads him forward in nowise; Apollo aids not with counsel; and more and more the fierce clash swells over the plains, and the havoc draws nigher on.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
11  Thee likewise, Aeolus, the Laurentine plains saw sink backward and cover a wide space of earth; thou fallest, whom Argive battalions could not lay low, nor Achilles the destroyer of Priam's realm.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
12  The huddled low wooden houses broke the plains scarcely more than would a hazel thicket.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  She had walked northward toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
17  I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
18  Once the design problems were solved, it was all/everything was plain sailing.
19  A policeman with plain clothes stood a dozen paces behind me watching me.
20  Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.
21  In general, a plain carpet makes a room look bigger.
22  The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
23  The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
24  Crying is the refuge of plain women.
25  The building style is plain, with very little ornament.
26  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.
27  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.
28  You could see a rough path descend like a steep stair into the plain.
29  Boston has had a fair share of cold, rainy and just plain dreary weather over the last couple of months
30  I like the interior but the exterior is a bit plain, stale, and hard looking.