Example Sentences

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A plumply loutish golden billionaire, he is a superb entertainer.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2015

She guffaws herself into an asthmatic rasp, and her whole face seems to change shape as she performs, shaking plumply or stretched wide in a violent rictus grin.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2011

High on the hills, among the shining olive trees, the stubby vines, patches of already plumply headed wheat, fields of potato just being put in behind primitive wooden stakeplows, sat the tiny chapels.

From Time Magazine Archive

In New York Harbor's Gravesend Bay, the new Holland-America liner Rotterdam met the Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was dressed in a plain, blue, cotton blouse and skirt; her not over-tall figure swelling plumply beneath their starched folds.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)