Example Sentences

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And now African banks are plugging into it.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

"It's like giving an old electronic a new battery pack. Instead of tossing them out, we are plugging fully-charged batteries from healthy cells into diseased ones."

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2025

"We are plugging the holes now," the caller tells the dispatcher, as the woman at the scene continues to talk in the background, though most of what she’s saying sounds muffled.

From Fox News • Jan. 12, 2022

Until widespread production can safely resume, the networks are plugging holes as they have in the past — with quickly produced reality TV and game shows.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2020

Greg and I are plugging hard at the game in the little time that the West Point routine allows us for practice.

From Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)