Sentence examples for a plain declaration from inspiring English sources

You cannot speak about preferring the likes of Jihadi John to be tried in court without prefacing that with a plain declaration that – whatever one's qualms about the execution of a British national – the world is a better place without him.

Colonial history is on view in official sites, like the Graff (or Declaration) House, a plain brick row house at Seventh and Market Streets where Thomas Jefferson lived when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and Carpenters' Hall on Fourth between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, a Georgian guild hall where the First Continental Congress met.

He then raised a plain red flag as a declaration of his bloodcurdling intentions.

"A plain pine box.

A plain brick building.

A plain chronology seems manageable.

Preferably a plain gray one.

A plain salesman could not.

I'm a plain speaker".

So, a plain, unsentimental speaker.

A plain of ice was a floe.