Sentence examples for but instead plain from inspiring English sources

The problem is that this would permanently leave cooling water with the corrosive boric acid in contact with the vessel wall, which is not stainless but instead plain old carbon-steel, which can corrode.

She is not beautiful, but instead is rather plain looking.

But instead of the plain T-shirt she wore, I longed to see her in a scarlet velvet blouse, something that spoke of a bit of experience as a woman with a love life.

The WSNR feature is a signal-to-noise ratio as well, but instead of performing plain averaging of the signal-to-noise ratios in different frequency bands, we now weight each band with the so-called "band importance function" [11] for speech.

I no longer felt like I had plain old hair, but instead like I had an actual hairstyle.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to see what happens if you make homemade pizza dough, but use vanilla cake-mix instead of plain flour.

Instead the plain, unvarnished truth.

He ate pancakes for breakfast instead of plain oatmeal.

Francesse Petithome wore a fancier dress this time, burgundy with gold sequins instead of plain green.

Instead of plain numbers a car owner can now get his initials or combinations of special significance.

Instead of plain, mundane, boring and slow, it was cute, bright, peppy, fun to drive and brimming with personality.