PLAIN in a Sentence

Learn PLAIN 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.
258 example sentences for PLAIN, such as:
1. The problem is quite plain to us.
2. The railway runs across the plain.
3. High mountains rise above the plain.
4. Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
5. The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PLAIN
plain
 a.  not mixed with extraneous elements
 n.  extensive tract of level open land
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  That was a plain statement of the cloudy purpose which had driven him in headlong to Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Brent liked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keep Stuart company.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  All shades of red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty's plain red hair, Camilla's strawberry blonde, Randa's coppery auburn and small Betsy's carrot top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Honey had the odd lashless look of a rabbit, and India could be described by no other word than plain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Under the supervision of the Ladies' Hospital Committee, this was plain hard work and no fun at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  There was a deep, almost fanatic glow in her eyes that for a moment lit up her plain little face and made it beautiful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She met Melanie's eyes and the same thought was plain in both faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  She knew that the feeling of triumph surging through her was certain to be plain in her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  High mountains rise above the plain.
2  The dress was absolutely plain, but quite stunning.
3  The railway runs across the plain.
4  It was plain that Giles was not going to agree.
5  The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
6  The problem is quite plain to us.
7  The army debouched from the mountains into a wide plain.
8  Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
9  I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
10  Once the design problems were solved, it was all/everything was plain sailing.
11  A policeman with plain clothes stood a dozen paces behind me watching me.
12  Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.
13  In general, a plain carpet makes a room look bigger.
14  The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
15  The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.