Example Sentences

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The stars have come right again, and out of the immense and plumbless depths I make ready to return, to ooze forth, back into the light.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus�and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leaden eyelids closed down over her staring eyes, she sank back into the chair, simultaneously into plumbless depths....

From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph

His dark eyes were large, beautiful with plumbless wisdom.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles