Sentence examples for the plain the from inspiring English sources

The plain, the Maremma, was a malarial swamp until the 18th century.

Add the birch trees piercing the thick fog on the plain, the setting at Smolensk and the Russian bogeyman.

The Indus River basin, extending west from Delhi, forms the western part of the plain; the Indian portion is mainly in the states of Haryana and Punjab.

If I turned back again The earth must turn with me, The mountains planted on the plain, The sky clamped to the sea.

Studded with low, isolated hills and ridges that rise abruptly from the plain, the valley is rarely more than 50 miles (80 km) wide and is surrounded on all sides, except on the west, by mountains.

All writers on Tennyson emphasize the influence of the Lincolnshire countryside on his poetry: the plain, the sea about his home, "the sand-built ridge of heaped hills that mound the sea," and "the waste enormous marsh".

But in a season when maturity is mistress of the runway, the plainer the better.

Generally speaking, the plainer the dish, the better the chances of success.

The plainer the outfit, the more they'll look at your face.

But even out in the plains, the excitement of this year's race is being felt.

On the plains, the Christian knights who served the Almoravids could easily repulse the Almohads' Berber infantry.