Sentence examples for plumb from inspiring English sources
The word "plumb" is correctly spelled and used in written English
You can use it as an adjective to mean "right; exactly; precisely" or as a verb to mean "to measure the depth of something, such as water or a shaft". Example sentence: He plumbed the depth of the lake using a weight attached to a rope.
noun
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
The direct return of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan navy signals the Australian government's willingness to plumb new moral depths in its obsession with stopping the boats, regardless of the human cost.
Buttler lbw b Coulter-Nile 22 (England 96-7) England's last proper batsman goes, plumb, to the first ball of the over.
He became a great landowner, too, rumoured to hold 1m hectares, with the focus of his power a spread of ranchland round Puerto López, plumb in the centre of the country.
But Murali gets it because, as an off spinner, most of his balls whizzed back in and hit my stumps, or, in the opinion of the guy feeding the balls into the machine, trapped me plumb lbw.
Alas, we probably need to plumb some greater depths of despair before this crisis is over.
He fears they may give him the wrong medicine, perhaps deliberately, and threatens to "shoot them plumb between the eyes" if they try.
They can therefore be used as natural cosmological plumb-lines.Because it is straightforward (at least for a physicist) to compute the wavelengths of the "sound" in the primeval fireball, astronomers believe they know the actual widths of the ripples in the CMB.
Will Grace of Schlumberger, an oilfield services company, likens it to dropping a plumb-line from the top of the Empire State Building and then guiding it through the rear and front windscreens of every car parked in the nearby streets.Such technology vastly increases the area one rig can cover (see diagram).
If it did, then a plumb-line should be deflected from the true vertical by an amount proportional to the gravitational attraction of the mountain range.
His friend Beatrice Wood defended the choice of object, saying "the only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges".
How should one understand the disconnect between the new highs reached by global equity indices and the new depths plumbed by real interest rates worldwide?
