PLUG in a Sentence

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For PLUG, below is one of 21 sentences:
For the same reason it was his custom, before being valeted by Petrushka, always to plug his nostrils with a couple of cloves.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLUG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plug
 n.  something, such as a cork or a wad of cloth, used to fill a hole tightly; stopper
Classic Sentence:
1  I took out the plug and shook out the little dab of quicksilver, and set my teeth in.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
2  Store tobacco is flat black plug, but these fellows mostly chaws the natural leaf twisted.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
3  The trouser pockets yielded nothing except a candle end, a jackknife, a plug of tobacco and a bit of twine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Not being able to smoke, he cut himself a good-sized plug of tobacco and began to chew.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  For the same reason it was his custom, before being valeted by Petrushka, always to plug his nostrils with a couple of cloves.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it obstructed by a plug or a grating.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
7  For the men in the barricade had made themselves two small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at one end with tow and fire-clay.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Example Sentence:
1  The girl let her mother plug in the TV set.
2  Check that the plug has not come loose.
3  The soldiers used their bodies to plug up a hole in the dyke.
4  It is possible to plug into remote databases to pick up information.
5  The Swiss entrepreneur has pulled the plug on any further investment in the firm.
6  Pull the plug and let the water drain away.
7  This new product line should be able to plug into our existing distribution network.
8  This cable should have a plug at one end and a socket at the other.
9  She pulled the plug out of the bathtub and the dirty water ran away.
10  Confused about the multitudes of plug, connector and receptacle combinations?
11  All our computers are plugged into the main network.
12  Andy is really plugged into the popular music scene.
13  Sure, a rechargeable can replace dozens of Duracells, but you have to keep plugging it into the power grid, which usually means burning more and more coal.
14  If you keep plugging away at it, your English will improve.