PLUMB in a Sentence

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For PLUMB, below is one of 11 sentences:
The metal is used extensively in the construction industry, for electrical wiring and copper pipes are used for plumbing.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLUMB
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plumb
 a.  checking perpendicularity; exactly vertical
Classic Sentence:
1  They are plumb set on that town, most as bad as Charlestonians are about Charleston, and it'll take more than Yankees and a burning to keep them away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Look lak he go plumb crazy w'en Doctah Meade say her neck broke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
3  No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
4  We got her half way; and then we was plumb played out, and most drownded with sweat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
5  He was the only person besides the repairman at Sam Clark's who understood plumbing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Before hanging wallpaper it is advisable to drop a plumb line from the ceiling as a guide.
2  They had ensured the plumbing was overhauled a year ago.
3  Our gardener is a jack of all trades, he can do carpentering, decorating, a bit of plumbing, and so on.
4  The electrics and the plumbing were sound.
5  The metal is used extensively in the construction industry, for electrical wiring and copper pipes are used for plumbing.
6  In New York City, where I grew up, the superintendent was the guy who fixed the plumbing or the boiler.