Sentence examples for plain takes from inspiring English sources

French food falls foul on any number of complaints: it's either too fatty, too fussy or just plain takes too long.

To recharge, refresh, and just plain take care of yourself in the midst of this energy.

On August 6, 2014, IS launched a major operation in the Nineveh plain, taking most of it in just a few days.

Although prudent counsel might have advised Jourdan to establish a position on the eastern slope of the mountains, he did not; instead he pushed across the Danube plain, taking position between Rottweil and Tuttlingen.

Although Jourdan could have established a position on the immediate eastern slope of the mountains and indeed he might have been better advised to do so he pushed eastward across the Danube plain, taking a temporary position between Rottweil and Tuttlingen.

In some ways the real action in "From White Plains" takes place before the first scene.

The geomorphological study of alluvial plains takes great advantage from the integration of detailed altimetry with high-resolution images, especially in the lower-relief sectors, like those in the distal plain of the Brenta and Bacchiglione rivers near the city of Padua (mean slope 1 0.8‰).

Some 15,000 refugees who fled last summer's fighting in the Shomali Plain have taken shelter in the compound of the long-abandoned Soviet Embassy.

When the public took to plain-vanilla ETFs, the financial services industry decided it should also offer egg-custard and blue-banana flavours.

He rides across open plains, taking in the barren, creeping beauty of the land.

Even the Mongols, sweeping in off the northern plains, took to the sea in their attempts to conquer Java and Japan.