Sentence examples for sounds plain from inspiring English sources
The phrase "sounds plain" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express that something is simple and/or dull. For example: "The recipe for this dish sounds plain; there doesn't seem to be much flavor."
He promised that "we came in together, and we will go out together".That sounds plain.
Minister for delivery and quality sounds plain and straightforward, but no one knows what he delivers, never mind its quality.
Again, that sounds plain wrong: surely the bad cases are on the southern periphery of the eurozone?
Ax's instinct too for lingering sufficiently to make the melodies sing while still driving everything forward brought poise to a work that can sometimes sounds plain awkward.
They mostly sounded plain scared.
To the consumer of 24-hour news, steeped in images of conflict and war, that may sound plain wrong.
I never resort to the glottal stop, not least because it would sound plain daft down here in Sussex, where none of the locals uses it either.
Some of the book's prescriptions are now esoteric or antiquated (the hip bath? The electric light bath cabinet?) and some sound plain awful (the tepid sponge, the salt glow, the acid enema).
A lot of the cakes and pastries sound plain, but plenty of them are complex and wonderful, such as the sage-walnut roll, or that apple tartlet, which tastes more like apple than some apples do.
A pile of frisee lettuce topped with perfectly cooked shrimp and thin-sliced asparagus sounded plain but stood out as one of the most satisfying appetizers on the menu.
*** In his Resurrecting Warsaw (BBC4 ,Wednesday), Dan Cruickshank grabs one's attention immediatelywith his idiosyncratic mode of speech; urgently enthusiastic and with syllable emphases that often sound plain wilful, he's like a cross between Timothy Claypole and Robert Peston.
