- present tense form of plate (3rd person singular).
plates
Example Sentences
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Roses are placed on the tables where supporters nibbled from snack plates, hugged, all smiles, and sipped from glasses of sparkling wine or beer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The state’s license plates are made by prisoners at Folsom State Prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Farther south, the movement of the African and Eurasian plates creates another source of potentially powerful earthquakes off North Africa.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum houses menus, plates and other artifacts recovered from the debris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
But now these, too, had grown up and married or gone off to work, and so I laid three plates on the table.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
