Sentence examples for but were very plain from inspiring English sources
Nyah-Nyah had sat by her bedside, day and night, telling her that her funeral clothes had already been made but were very plain because she had not lived long enough to deserve anything more elaborate.
Early angiosperms may have had flowers, but we now know from fossils that those first flowers were very plain - and probably not that attractive to pollinators.
The Duchess told schoolchildren that her mother-in-law's tastes were "very plain, nothing too complicated.
While most Friends meeting houses were very plain in their designs and ornamentation, individual craftsmen were encouraged to be "guided by (their) own inner light" when working on building a meeting house.
The décor is very plain, but it all adds up: polenta-yellow paint, rough pine trim, big black-and-white photos of Italian grocers and garlic clusters, rush-seated chairs with great curves, striped dish towels standing in for napkins.
They are very plain and not enormously potatoey, but they are the best carrier imaginable for anything salty.
But then, in the conjunction of the rock and its wooden base, which may be very plain or intricately geometric or sensuously curvy, you have something else again: an archetypal marriage of nature and culture, the wild and the refined, prehistory and history.
The rooms are very plain.
"The diaries are very plain," he said.
They are very plain and the furniture is cheap.
