Sentence examples for anything but plain from inspiring English sources
Sailing has become anything but plain.
You can't cut and paste anything but plain text.
I would be hard-pressed to call my side-door strategy anything but plain luck.
That building is anything but plain, with all sorts of bays, insets and a series of wavy, undulating piers.
The action unfolds in a stage-filling box (designed by Harald B. Thor and lighted by Stefan Bolliger), yet the production is anything but plain.
He was visible on the deck of a friend's yacht, which was construed as an insult, witting or not, to those whose lives were anything but plain sailing.
House Republicans were already trying to shift the blame for a shutdown, which seems all but certain now, to Senate Democrats, who have said they will reject anything but a plain funding bill.
In a key scene set at Bletchley Park, a colleague laments that Turing is incapable of speaking anything but the plain truth where a lie might be less hurtful.
He also doesn't like it if anybody comments on my looks and complains if I wear anything but the plainest, most "invisible" clothes.
The repeated attempts by Plains to buy SemGroup, which has been revamping its operations after emerging from bankruptcy in 2009, are "anything but opportunistic," Plains said in its letter.
The heartier food of winter all but demands more intense desserts with rich and creamy texture, like a big bowl of ice cream made with anything but strawberries or plain vanilla.
