Sentence examples for use of the plural from inspiring English sources

Yes they're Americanisms, but their use of the plural was not gratuitous.

Newsweek evidently interpreted that silence as confirmation of a sort, thereby justifying its use of the plural "sources".

Just the use of the plural rather than the singular — "overflights" in stead of "overflight"— could give away everything.

The use of the plural second-person pronoun ('you') as a polite singular is general in Altaic.

"I don't think anything's really a surprise at this point with them," she said, her use of the plural dragging the younger Williams into the fray.

The concept of diaspora did not figure prominently in the social sciences until the late 1960s; the use of the plural form of the word came later still.

The coy use of the parenthetical plural in the title of "Histoire(s)" has since become a clich?f postmodernist criticism, an alibi meant to ward off accusations of authoritarianism or essentialism, but Mr. Godard is using it in a different way.

Colloquially, the term "platypi" is also used for the plural, although this is technically incorrect and a form of pseudo-Latin; the correct Greek plural would be "platypodes".

Granted, almost everybody found that one ludicrous (well, except Lady L., which only made it funnier), but really she's only a notch up from Ivy-educated lawyers from privileged backgrounds like Ingraham and Coulter ranting about "the elites" who "hate us," as Ingraham puts it, making free use of the first-person plural.

An important finding was that subjects who reduced their use of the second person plural -- "we" and "us" -- and focused instead on their own experience and the challenges they face moving forward, demonstrated an easier time coping.

Murphy's use of the first person plural is telling.