Sentence examples for is plain by from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Maxwell's stand is plain by the standards of today's Greenmarkets, where you can find beetroot pasta or micro-mâche, Mr. Hoffman recalls that in the early days, the diversity and quality of what Mr. Maxwell grew stood out.

Shown by appointment, the dresses are plain by design.

The new plain packages are to start arriving in stores this week, and all packs must be plain by Dec. 1.

But it should be plain by now that there are no shortcuts in the nation-building business.

In 1975, Tran, a writer, is forced to evacuate her homeland: "For it was plain by this time that Vietnam was a sinking ship, a shriveling dragon.

On paper unionizing against Uber makes sense, but the anti-Uber alliance hasn't been plain sailing by any stretch of the imagination.

Most of all, Madoff protected himself by being plain elusive.

Such areas are plains, characterized by more or less periodic flooding and complex ecosystems adapted to large water fluctuations.

"Tan areas are plains formed by eruption of highly fluid lavas".

But the tenacity of the caste system is made plain by the matrimonial-help pages of the Sunday newspapers.

A waffle is pretty plain by itself, or sometimes slightly sweet.