Sentence examples for thought plain from inspiring English sources

Christine, who "a few years ago would have been thought plain", is engaged to a theology student but is staying in Paris with another lover, Herbert, and his son Bert.

"I think, plain and simple, we got our butts beat pretty good," Boston's Mike Lowell said, adding later, "We didn't really have a chance today".

"I think plain vanilla is in," said Peter Gaw, managing director of ABN Amro's oil and energy business, about the kind of financing that companies will now use.

She explained that she thinks plain sweatpants would be "more than enough" and would factor out the shaming element.

"We thought the plain colors were going to be the hottest," Mr. Semerari said of the Salon Effects introduction of patterned and plain stick-on nails.

As Leonard describes it: "I was told that the order meant something other than what I (and others) thought a plain text reading would indicate, especially in the context in which it was originally developed".

Derivative securities have been put into discretionary accounts that clients thought were plain vanilla.

But apparently, there are people out there that think these plain red cups are an insult to Christians.

Last summer he appeared to think that plain packs would do nothing much to improve Britons' health.

Some economists think that plain speaking is desirable, inevitable or both.

She says what she thinks, uses plain English and tells stories that deliver an emotional wallop.