Sentence examples for better plain from inspiring English sources
'I like it better plain,' he decides.
The daubs of quince, Mission figs (which were good poached in port but would have been so much better plain), and walnut-leaf curlicues — oh, yeah, and the piece of blue-cheese cheesecake they accompany — are almost more work than they're worth.
It is possible to buy genuinely healthy cereals, the more boring and unprocessed the better – plain old porridge (easy on the honey), Weetabix and Shredded Wheat are hard to beat – but in the grand tradition of puffed-up breakfast health claims, here follows a multipack of dodginess, starting with the latest overreach.
Twills drape better than plain weaves with the same yarn count because twills have fewer interlacings.
It was marked by something even better: cool, plain, dull indifference.
The Great Gretzky -- sounds better than plain Wayne -- was the most productive offensive threat in hockey history, a willowy genius.
But the uninitiated might ask, How fine should it be ground, and is a variety of peppers better than plain black?
That's why babies like it better than plain water and it's because they prefer it that it becomes habitual.
By Adam Gopnik September 20, 2016 New Yorkers' response to the weekend's bombings was not merely "bold" or "courageous" but something even better: cool, plain, dull indifference.
More meaningful, she says, is that several studies show that antibacterial soaps sold to consumers are no better than plain soaps in terms of reducing illness or the count of bacteria left on hands.
