Sentence examples for the plural for from inspiring English sources

"Alumna" is singular; the plural (for women) is "alumnae".

Was he referring to himself, pretentiously using the plural for his own person?

When its newer sense – a skilful, competitive activity – gained popularity, American speakers, not unreasonably, tried to maintain the distinction by keeping the singular for the first sense and using the plural for the second.

The word is the plural for qat, meaning a tropical plant found in Africa and Arabia, also spelled khat; but Mr. Sherman does not care about that definition, or any other definition.

Viewers who had grown accustomed over the past 13 days to an endless fight card of Democrats and Republicans duking it out over "undervotes," the composition of canvassing boards or whether "chad" is the plural for "chad" may have been caught off guard by the subdued tone and orderliness of the live hearing before the seven Florida justices.

I insist on using the plural for media (medium is the singular).

The lie is integral to his very name, Skizzen, the plural of the German for "sketch" — quick improvisation, the liar's tool.

"Délits Flagrants" (the title is a bit of a pun, the plural of the idiom for "caught in the act" or "caught red-handed"), a documentary by Raymond Depardon that is set in the holding cell of a police station and features prisoners in discussion with their attorneys and with prosecutors (a standard part of the judicial process in France), goes far beyond local politics.

26D: "Pop stars?" is a terrific clue for NOVAE, the plural of NOVA.

For example, the plural of phenomenon is usually phenomena and not phenomenons.

In Turkish, for instance, the plural of a noun is formed by adding a suffix to its singular form.