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

Of course, Ocean City, N.J., lacks a certain Monegasque patina, but the princess was feeling gracefully and somewhat plumply at home.

From Time Magazine Archive

When you ask them a hard question, instead of saying right out, plumply and honestly, "I don't know," they will try to trump up some answer that will not expose their ignorance.

From The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)