plump

Example Sentences

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To us, the house salad that got passed around at the beginning of every meal was perfect, save for one ingredient: the plump, black olives.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

A taste of New England in West Hollywood, it quickly became known for fried clams and chowders harkening to Cimarusti’s Rhode Island childhood and plump lobster rolls filled with never-frozen lobster.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

The shake-up might have cheered investors, except that the stock’s plump dividend yield and 70-year history of payout increases will get a rethink at the time of the split.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

If you think of late-career Elvis Presley as only a plump and gaudy Las Vegas crooner slinging schlock in the 1970s, you’re about to get all shook up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Ma looked pretty, with her bare arms plump and white, her cheeks so red and her dark hair smooth and shining, while she scrubbed and rubbed the corn in the clear water.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder