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Example sentences for "plethora"

Lexicographically close words:
plesed; plesour; pless; plesse; plesure; plethoric; plethra; pletty; pleu; pleugh
  1. The Maltese, unfortunately, have a paucity of reason and a plethora of priests.

  2. Yet there is, strange as it may seem, a cold emptiness, not to say gloom, which overcomes the stranger amid all this plethora of furnishing and fresco.

  3. It is a complex affection directly connected with a plethora in the blood of nitrogenized constituents, with extreme nervous and muscular disorder and the excretion of a dense reddish or brownish urine.

  4. Plethora and hypertrophy of the heart predispose to it.

  5. Low condition in the dam and plethora have in opposite ways caused abortion, and hot, relaxing stables and lack of exercise strongly conduce to it.

  6. When of service at all, it is probably mainly in reducing that plethora which serves often to enhance the virulence and severity of the malady.

  7. Plethora is undoubtedly an important predisposing cause of anthrax, and so is the alternation of cold nights with hot days.

  8. The Netsys machine proved to contain a plethora of arcane UNIX software--proprietary source code formally owned by AT&T.

  9. She said it would help them to rid themselves of a plethora of wealth and keep them from bursting.

  10. He moved away, in fact, because he was conscious that to a man in his case, this dwelling upon millions, this plethora of wealth, was a little revolting.

  11. The plethora of police in the country is one of the most striking features that meet the eye of anyone visiting it for the first time.

  12. He thrust his hand into his bosom and drew forth numerous rouleaux--so many that I thought his corpulence might well be a plethora of coin.

  13. Thus by the hour went on the poor wretch, resigned most obviously to whatever was in store for him, not so much from a native courage, I fear, as from a plethora of flesh that smothered every instinct of self-preservation.

  14. A congested or overloaded state of the uterine circulation, whether from general plethora or from other causes, is not an uncommon cause of feeble contractions.

  15. Leaving an attendant to extinguish the lights and re-lock the great iron doors, the padre opened other cupboards and showed us a plethora of riches, valuable not only for the material but for the beauty and artistic skill of the workmanship.

  16. He can well be spared frills, thrills, and a plethora of patting on the back; but not unquestionable suggestion and example, if he is to pull up and win out.

  17. At the ball there was an appalling plethora of girls; wallflowers sat waiting round the walls, and waited in vain.

  18. In the plethora of great professionals the amateur element has always been in a minority in the county eleven, though the names of Lord Hawke, T.

  19. Matt had to make up his mind in a hurry, for this was the last ship bound north before the bay was frozen for the winter, and ships bound south for the States seemed always to have a plethora of crew.

  20. It is needless to enter here into the much-debated question as to the mode in which the plethora brings about the characteristic symptoms and results.

  21. All these factors coincide in intensifying the one condition of plethora and point to that as a most essential cause of the affection.

  22. It is decorated, if I may use such a term, in most of the colours of the rainbow, and rendered more gaudy still by a plethora of very poor gilding.

  23. And, even in such a plethora of massacres, it is strange they should have suffered such neglect.

  24. Justinian, it may be noted, had equipped this army with such a plethora of commanders that their defeat can hardly cause surprise.

  25. They had a plethora of matter to discharge from their souls, but they had no comfortable little Chelsea studio in which to perform this function.

  26. The voluntary absence of the Irish members from Westminster is as vain a dream as the fancy that Ireland under Home Rule may suffer from a plethora of money.

  27. We are now suffering under a plethora of capital at the same time that we are oppressed with debt.

  28. God, it is now somewhat better expended than it was in the bubble mania, which acted upon the plethora certainly, but bled us too freely and uselessly.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plethora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.