Sentence examples for return to plain from inspiring English sources

In his writing, some of his sweet sentences and many of his neutral ones pull up short -- end abruptly, even curtly, as if he were requiring his language and his own voice to return to plain speech and unsweetened reality.

Oh, and the rapid drop in the debt ratio reflects a partial return to plain vanilla banking, not a massive paydown of obligations.

In 1953, following the death of her father-in-law, Rosalynn reluctantly agreed to return to Plains, though she feared a loss of independence and fewer opportunities for travel.

By returning to Plain Dealing in such a diminished state, Pershing promised to darken the memory of his and Woodrow's heroic pasts and to serve up a new picture of what loss can do.

Following a pair of rulings in the high court, it looks like journalists can return to calling them plain scumbags again.

What had seemed to many to be a tiring franchise after 13 series – I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! – surprisingly achieved record ratings for the country's main commercial channel, which had itself contributed to the backward-looking mood of the schedules by dropping the name ITV1 and returning to the plain ITV, with which it had launched 60 years ago.

The Sherlock Holmes stories were the first adult books I read, and I often return to them now for good, plain writing and for the comfort of puzzles solved.

The herds return to the park's southeastern plains in November, at the end of the dry season.

She hopes to return to her home on the plains, as do her family, but she worries about the possibility of repercussions from armed groups there.

The refuge is as real as the bright wildflowers at our feet that glorious night and the clouds of mosquitoes buzzing around our heads, as tangible as the caribou that migrate through it annually to give birth on the coastal plain before they return to their winter homelands in Canada.

He appealed to the Tsipras government to return to the negotiating table, making it plain that Athens has been treating its creditors and EU partners with contempt.