PLAINS in a Sentence
Learn PLAINS 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 PLAINS, 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. The broad plains of the American West.
5. Animals range over the hills and plains.
2. The railway runs across the plain.
3. High mountains rise above the plain.
4. The broad plains of the American West.
5. Animals range over the hills and plains.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PLAINS
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plain
a. not mixed with extraneous elements
n. extensive tract of level open land
plainly
ad. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
ad. in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Scarcely had the first summer set in, when lord Anchises bids us spread our sails to fortune, and weeping I leave the shores and havens of my country, and the plains where once was Troy.
2 A land of vast plains lies apart, the home of Mavors, in Thracian tillage, and sometime under warrior Lycurgus' reign; friendly of old to Troy, and their gods in alliance while our fortune lasted.
3 Here the Locrians of Narycos have set their city, and here Lyctian Idomeneus beset the Sallentine plains with soldiery; here is the town of the Meliboean captain, Philoctetes' little Petelia fenced by her wall.
4 Next we graze the high reefs and jutting rocks of Pachynus; and far off appears Camarina, forbidden for ever by oracles to move, and the Geloan plains, and vast Gela named after its river.
5 He spoke, and paced on before them, and from above shews the shining plains; thereafter they leave the mountain heights.
6 Thus they wander up and down over the whole region of broad vaporous plains, and scan all the scene.
7 Some make ready to march afoot over the plains; some, mounted on tall horses, ride amain in clouds of dust.
8 So many were the chosen princes who went in thirty ships to aid Troy, and cut the salt plains with brazen prow.
9 We verily, that Turnus may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on the plains, worthless lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
10 Fortune leads him forward in nowise; Apollo aids not with counsel; and more and more the fierce clash swells over the plains, and the havoc draws nigher on.
11 Thee likewise, Aeolus, the Laurentine plains saw sink backward and cover a wide space of earth; thou fallest, whom Argive battalions could not lay low, nor Achilles the destroyer of Priam's realm.
12 The huddled low wooden houses broke the plains scarcely more than would a hazel thicket.
13 The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.
14 She had walked northward toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains.
15 It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 The horses galloped across the open plains.
2 The broad plains of the American West.
3 You can enjoy the extraordinary sight unbroken cloud plains that stretch out before you.
4 Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.
5 Animals range over the hills and plains.
6 It is a blazing morning in the Permian basin, in west Texas, America's most productive oilfield; on the high plains a rig gnaws at rock more than 3,000 feet underground.
7 It was the latest stage in Race Across America, a coast-to-coast relay bicycle marathon through deserts, mountains and plains that is one of the most formidable endurance events in the world.
8 The high desert plains are beautiful and have a more temperate climate, but for some people, the altitude is a health problem.
9 High mountains rise above the plain.
10 The dress was absolutely plain, but quite stunning.
11 The railway runs across the plain.
12 It was plain that Giles was not going to agree.
13 The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
14 The problem is quite plain to us.
15 The army debouched from the mountains into a wide plain.