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Example sentences for "plump"

Lexicographically close words:
plummeted; plummeting; plummets; plummy; plumose; plumped; plumper; plumping; plumply; plumpness
  1. He had only just reached it when a shell fell plump into the wreck, scattering its timbers far and wide.

  2. She sat fronting the entrance, her head insolently thrown back, knees crossed, a cigarette poised in the plump and dimpled hand.

  3. The white drapery fell from her plump shoulders in straight, unbroken folds to her pink, bare feet.

  4. Photographs in dark frames were on the wall, and amongst them, staring at him with laughing eyes and plump cheeks, his own.

  5. Thereupon the prelate, as if once more postponing the denouement with the secret enjoyment of an artistic diplomate, began to protest, raising his little plump hands with the anxious air of a man who considers everything lost: "Oh!

  6. The cabby, a plump little man with sparkling eyes and white teeth, smiled on realising by Pierre's accent that he had to deal with a French priest.

  7. He had caught hold of the prelate's soft, plump hands, and stammered, "Ah!

  8. His feet were large, his hands plump and over-broad, but admirably cared for.

  9. If I thought that it would do any good, be of any use, I would mentally plump on my knees and say to you that Ellenora Vibert is unlike any woman I ever met.

  10. I daresay the Scriptures are right, for priests surely do not live on bread alone; they fatten on plump pullets and crisp pork-pies.

  11. The poor girl leaned her plump and snowy arms on the white marble window-sill and sighed.

  12. She is not here," Miss Sibson said, plump and plain.

  13. And so it happened that two minutes later, Vaughan, on his way from Brereton's lodgings in Unity Street, came plump upon the two.

  14. Harry is still silent, when--a plump hand is laid upon his arm.

  15. The noise of distant hoofs falls upon her ear, and a burning blush suffuses her plump cheek.

  16. It certainly would create a sensation in Chelton," murmured Belle, as she looked at her plump sister.

  17. The plump one stood looking at the bulging trunk, and then drew a long breath.

  18. I think I have already intimated that Bess was plump and rosy--a little too plump, she herself admitted at times.

  19. The fat fellow having got him down the ladder (and with wondrous ease for one of his bulk) stood winking and blinking at me the while he patted one of his plump cheeks with plump fingers.

  20. If I didn't run plump into them," he ejaculated, harshly.

  21. Up thar in a bare spot we run plump into Queen sittin' against a tree, right out in the open.

  22. Over streamed the hounds, and over flew Fitzgerald, reckless of a drop of fourteen feet on the other side, going plump into the river.

  23. You may also have Night Masks, Forehead Pieces, incomparable whitepots, and Red Pomatum for the lips, which keeps them all the Year plump and smooth, and of a delicate natural colour.

  24. She stared up at Mr. Blyth with two big tears rolling over her plump cheeks.

  25. Valentine, as a miniature avalanche of oyster-shells clattered down on his intruding foot, and a plump bottle with a broken neck rolled lazily out from under the table-cloth, and courted observation on the open floor.

  26. I will,' says I, pulling the trigger, and knocking his house from the ledge, plump into the sea.

  27. Meeself would thin, and think it no sin, in case the gentleman was a plump little oysther, like your honour.

  28. Although we had laughed time and again at the charming plump lady who had prophesied such terrible events, it had proved in bitter earnest a sad last voyage for Neddie.

  29. Most anyone would have mistaken him for just a plump boy in very good clothes.

  30. Oo got a pretty face," assured Annie, patting it with one plump hand.

  31. Navy-blue serge, fashioned by Bancroft's best tailor to fit Roger Fairchild, who was much too plump for ready-made clothes.

  32. If he takes rooms at the Reina Cristina, you’ll come plump upon him.

  33. From the scenery of Montenegro we came plump into the Black Forest; and Baden-Baden might have lain in the valley below these pointed mountains clothed in mourning pines.

  34. By this time the car had stopped close to a tiny white box of a house set a few yards back from the road, with a strip of grass for a lawn; and an old man, evidently an ex-soldier, with a plump wife and a pretty daughter were coming out.

  35. It was clever of Carmona to use his mother’s plump hand as a cat’s-paw to pull his chestnuts from the fire; but it was not brave, because he must know that we could not let it touch the flames.

  36. Dick as we came through without damage and climbed the opposite bank, to plump down a breakneck descent on the other side.

  37. As she whispered, the plump figure sauntered back.

  38. The children grew plump and rosy, and the mother lost the pale, sad look.

  39. She was plump and rosy too, and was as nice and comfortable a body as you would wish to look at.

  40. They swam and ate all day, and slept all night, and were dutiful Ducklings who minded their mother, so it was not strange that they were plump and happy.

  41. She could see her brood quite plainly in the moonlight, and one of them was not plump like the rest.

  42. He is so plump and so bright for his age.

  43. While the woman talked a plump little member of the demi monde who sat beside Sam wept copiously, but at the end of the speech he could remember nothing of what had been said and he wondered if the weeping woman would remember.

  44. A smile came to his lips as he sat on a bench along the wall between an immigrant from Russia and a small plump farmer's wife who held a banana in her hand and gave bites of it to a rosy-cheeked babe lying in her arms.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; adipose; bang; beefy; bloated; brawny; bump; burly; buxom; canvass; cast; cave; chink; chubby; chuck; clap; click; clink; clop; clump; corpulent; cushion; dash; decline; distended; dive; divide; droop; drop; dumpy; ease; engross; exactly; fall; fat; fatten; fleshy; flick; fling; flop; fluff; flush; founder; full; gentle; gross; hastily; heavy; hefty; hurl; impetuously; imposing; impulsively; knead; lapse; loosen; lour; lower; lusty; mash; massage; meaty; mellow; mollify; obese; overweight; pad; parachute; patter; paunchy; pitch; plank; plop; plumb; plummet; plump; plunge; plunk; podgy; poll; pop; portly; pounce; precisely; pudgy; puffy; pulp; rap; relax; right; rotund; roundabout; sag; settle; sharp; sink; slap; slouch; slump; smack; smash; soften; sound; square; squarely; squash; squat; stalwart; stocky; stoop; stout; straight; strapping; subdue; submerge; subside; suddenly; surprisingly; swag; swollen; swoop; tap; thickset; throw; thrust; thud; thump; tick; tinkle; toss; unawares; vote