Sentence examples for born plain from inspiring English sources

He was born plain Peter Finlay in 1961 to wealthy parents who lived in an old winery in southern Australia.

Born plain Rachel Pixley in the village of Worksop, she renamed herself, not too subtly, after the unit of kinetic energy, the joule.

The situation was not aided by the unisex nature of the name "Smokey" (his nickname since childhood - he was born plain old William).

Born plain Lilian Alicia Marks in Finsbury Park, London, she was renamed "Markova", by the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, her early champion, when she was plucked from her Chelsea ballet class to join his famous Ballets Russes in 1925, aged 14.

Vin Diesel was born plain Mark Sinclair.

Veteran television actress Susan Saint James was born plain Susan Miller.

It was all a very long way from Salford, near Manchester, where he had been born as plain Alfred Cooke, the son of a metalworker.

It's hard not to cheer when she trumpets: "You know, I mighta been born just plain white trash, but Fancy was my name".

Was she really born as plain old Elizabeth Grant rather than emerging from the womb fully formed as the popstar Lana Del Rey?

"He knew and we know that he was just plain born gay," she wrote.

Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, and Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology".