Sentence examples for was not plain from inspiring English sources

"I hate to say it, but I was not plain".

It was not plain sailing for England, however.

Despite his protestations, his immediate post-Warsaw career was not plain sailing.

It was not plain sailing – diesel fumes overpower the author's cabin and the food includes fried Spam.

It was not plain sailing for Wales – it never is these days – but it was their best performance of the autumn.

Persuading us that we needed to have a daily dose of this sort of premium-priced functional food was not plain sailing.

As ever, it wasn't plain sailing.

Plain old Shaq wasn't plain at all.

It wasn't plain and ordinary and everyday.

She wasn't plain in that moment, though she didn't know it.

Nonetheless, it wasn't plain sailing.