Sentence examples for by a plain from inspiring English sources

It is made either by a plain weave or by a leno weave.

Over a half-plate of pasta followed by a plain grilled steak, he recalled the turning point.

Inevitably it's a spicy lamb curry from the chef's specials, with tarka dal and saag paneer, accompanied by a plain naan, ideally one the size of the napkin.

Mr. Plummer's dispossessed monarch glimmers prismatically in this simple context, the way an intricately cut gem is often shown to best advantage by a plain setting (3:15).

One neighbour, 37-year-old Mandy Dixon, said she saw Shannon being brought out of the flat by a plain clothes officer.

The film's plea for old-fashioned pride and racial tolerance is muffled by a plain, unanticipated fact: Pete Perkins is out of his mind.

"The world of eccentricity in me isn't satisfied by a plain-told story".

Some said it looked more like a nightclub lobby than the entryway to a business run by a plain-vanilla commercial financier.

Mr Cantor, on the other hand, preferred invitation-only events and was often seen plying his district from the comforts of a massive black SUV driven by a plain-clothes police officer.

He had been arrested by a plain-clothes police officer for asking a passer-by for 10p, an episode that triggered reports about Sussex police arresting 60 people on similar grounds in 2015 alone.

Among his other films, Mr. Yankovsky played a former champion bicyclist who is rescued from his drunken ways by a plain-looking librarian in Sergei Mikaelyan's romantic comedy "Love at His Own Choice," which was shown at the New Directors/New Films Festival in New York in 1985.