plate up
verb(adverb)
to put food on a plate, ready for serving
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How to use plate up in a sentence
"Ye needna lick the posies aff," the wifie said, good humoredly, as she picked the plate up to wash it.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonNow, feeling the collar under the thatch, he slipped it out and brought the brass plate up to the light.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonIt floated the plate up, the air hit the vanes and spun the plate—and it ran as sweet as honey!
Space Platform | Murray LeinsterHis thin hand, on which veins rose in a bas relief, held the plate up tremulously against the light.
The Guests Of Hercules | C. N. Williamson and A. M. WilliamsonMy lifelong ambition was to make ships from the keel-plate up.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
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