PLUS in a Sentence

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For PLUS, below is one of 14 sentences:
Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLUS
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plus
 a.  involving advantage or good; on the positive side or higher end of a scale
Classic Sentence:
1  Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE
2  To this centre, Wellington added one of Chasse's brigades taken from the right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus Clinton's division.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
3  Jean Valjean locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a little valise which he found means of procuring.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
4  Add the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius was fed, lodged, and waited on.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
5  Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
6  Tu m'as plus l'air d'un ennemi de la France; arrete ou pardieu je te ferai ami du diable.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  He wanted everyone to think them good, of the best, ne plus ultra.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four.
2  The house is near the sea, which is a plus factor for us.
3  Her previous experience in social work is a plus factor.
4  The full-length feature, as yet untitled, will include interviews plus footage of their live gigs.
5  This company controls main gas resource plus many of the pipelines that supply it to Europe.
6  Both men plus a host of accompanying ministers will focus on common ground.
7  Digg, the "social news" site which was once the poster child for Web 2.0 and valued at up to $175m, has been sold to New York technology development company Betaworks for just $500,000 in cash plus equity.