We found 26 examples of how to use plainly in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 26.
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1. | I'm a plain dealer, I look on life plainly, I think plainly, I speak plainly. | |
2. | So that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. | |
3. | They were plainly dressed. | |
4. | She plainly interpreted Picasso's paintings to me. | |
5. | And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. | |
6. | I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
7. | Stop beating around the bush and tell me plainly what you want from me. | |
8. | As is the case with the above farmer, the whole mentality of contraception birth control is plainly un-natural. | |
9. | He couldn't have put it more plainly. | |
10. | Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already. | |
11. | Tom could see it plainly. | |
12. | The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle. | |
13. | He is plainly wrong. | |
14. | He was plainly not envious of the openly wealthy. | |
15. | It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!” | |
16. | "Doctor, tell me plainly, even if it’s hard: will I survive this, or have I baked my last cake?" - "For sure you’ll get well again; the only question is when." | |
17. | "Well, I hope it will turn out all right," said Mrs. Rachel in a tone that plainly indicated her painful doubts. | |
18. | The spot commanded a fine view of the plains, with the herds and flocks that grazed upon them. The sea, also, and the passing ships were plainly visible, so that the prospect formed no small part of the beauty of the place. | |
19. | "I wonder what that fellow is looking for?" I asked, pointing to a stalwart, plainly-dressed individual who was walking slowly down the other side of the street, looking anxiously at the numbers. | |
20. | He concealed his fears from his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was ill at ease. | |
21. | The track of a horse was plainly outlined in the soft earth in front of him, and the shoe which he took from his pocket exactly fitted the impression. | |
22. | Lucy sighed. She perceived too plainly that her lover held in scorn the manners and habits of her father. | |
23. | "You're pretty," he said plainly. | |
24. | The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid. | |
25. | I am afraid I showed my surprise rather plainly. |