Sentence examples for plying for from inspiring English sources

In most circles there are at least eight mobile operators plying for custom.

Plying for trade, they will offer to carry your luggage for a fee.

Later that same year he was plying for Australia's Under-19s.

Writer says the ideal taxi desdribed in "Comment" actually exists in London & has been plying for hire on the streets of London for the last 50 years.

The explosion and leaking of oil have underscored the risks and challenges that a new generation of oil pioneers faces plying for discoveries at such depths.

By about 1900 more than 11,000 registered cabs were plying for hire on the streets of London, and there were double that number a century later.

By 1836, there were around 100 being plied for passing trade on Hampstead Heath, and among the giggling joyriders were Charles Dickens and Karl Marx, the latter an especially inept jockey, apparently.

Air Force U-2 spy planes and remotely piloted Predator reconnaissance aircraft soar over vast swaths of the western desert that smugglers have plied for centuries.

The charismatic, predatory stranger who through sexual manipulation and bullying takes over a household in which he's either a guest or a servant is a ready-made metaphor for class struggle that the movies have plied for decades.

What exactly did a waterman do? A. The Naval Encyclopedia, published in Philadelphia in 1881, defines a waterman as "a man who plies for hire on the water; a boatman".

Under tensile load, two competing damage processes (delamination and interleaf yielding/cracking) are predicted, leading to different stress concentrations in the neighbouring CFRP plies for different interleaf geometries and material properties.