plumb

Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Or maybe we’ll plumb new depths of dysfunction in the coming year.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

As is often the case when Hamilton struggles, not only does his mood plumb the depths, but the F1 rumour mill spins into overdrive.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

In effect, the complaint here invites the Journal’s lawyer to use interrogatories and depositions to plumb the entire relationship between the two men.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

He sat plumb up there where the man had dropped him and cried so hard that purple and black streaks ran down his cheeks and splashed onto his chest.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

In “Empire of Ashes,” he plumbs survivors’ heartbreaking accounts, bringing readers to the rubble of atomic ruins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“When she sings about love, Omara plumbs the depths of heartbreak, and I could not imagine telling her story without seeing her singing these great songs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

In keeping with its title, “Choreomaniacs,” which seems to pick up where “Revolver” leaves off, plumbs wilder depths.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Among these some 300 pages are gems, including “Among the Trees,” by poet Carl Phillips, who plumbs the human connections that can be forged in a forest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023

"Sweet spungy plumbs on trees wide spreading hang, The happy flavour'd pine grows crested from the ground."

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Her 2022 debut novel, “Aesthetica,” plumbed the lengths one aged-out influencer is willing to go to reverse her cosmetic surgeries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Right now, only some of the dancers in each of the two casts I saw plumbed the ballet’s depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Under Amorim, United have plumbed depths that should not be possible the way football's finances are arranged these days.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

For proof of the formula’s resilience, look no further than the success of VH1’s “Behind the Music” series, which plumbed the depths of dozens of rock ’n’ roll train wrecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Design specifications required that every building be surrounded by an underwater main and be plumbed with interior standpipes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

A wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating and other products for construction trades is set to become the newest member of the S&P 500 index.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Crypto sits outside the traditional plumbing of global finance, where banks, regulators and the electronic network by which ordinary payments are transmitted give Western governments visibility over the movement of money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Deep within the grey matter is plumbing called the glymphatic system.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

As well as Mulan Build and 38fix, there is Diandian Home Solution, an all-women plumbing and furniture assembly service operating in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Kunming.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Later will come wall frames, plumbing and electrical, windows, walls, and a door, and at the end, I’ll lay down a beautiful wooden floor.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio