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Plain in sentence

1371 examples of Plain in a sentence

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch, as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young.
An African shaman said, "Your society worships the jester while the king stands in plain clothes."
And if you put them on one plain, a second plain is where the content lives.
In plain English, that means censorship and surveillance of their users.
One of my struggles with activism is its often one-sided nature that blinds us to alternative view, that numbs our empathy, that makes us view those who see issues differently as ignorant, self-hating, brainwashed, sellout or plain stupid.
Even though it's quite plain to see that it was upside down.
All of these things are happening in plain sight, and they're all protected by a force field of tediousness.
And he tried to persuade me to write the browser for it, because his system didn't have any graphics or fonts or layout or anything; it was just plain text.
Even more worrying for the Americans, in December 2008 the holiest of holies, the IT systems of CENTCOM, the central command managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, may have been infiltrated by hackers who used these: plain but infected USB keys.
One day, I was glancing through my bank statement (I didn't have much to look at) and I've noticed that in the upper corner there was a symbol, that I'm going to show you, saying that document had been made in plain language, for me to understand it.
And lastly, the third, use plain words, those ones that grandma knows.
This was cultural survival hidden in plain sight.
I'm just suggesting that we give the public access to that research and that we shift the venue and focus on using plain language so that the public who's paying for the research can also consume it.
This is plain text.
Once we understand that all the spheres in the sky are just large infinite planes, it will be plain to see.
Egyptologists have always known the site of Itjtawy was located somewhere near the pyramids of the two kings who built it, indicated within the red circles here, but somewhere within this massive flood plain.
These gays, people like me, want to be treated like full citizens and it's all written down in plain sight.
He has her wear very plain clothes.
This is very plain; the only thing that isn't plain is her pearl earring.
It has a plain high collar, detachable sleeves and intricate buttons of twisted silk thread, set close together so that the fit is snug.
It was like these little moments of joy were hidden in plain sight.
So let's start off with plain old telephone service.
We've shifted our focus in one sentence from John to Mary, and you can see John is very close to the end of the sentence, well, close to dropping off the map of our psychic plain.
This is just a plain statement of the facts.
The great point is to give them the plain facts."
So the optimistic note, great point that I want to leave you with is that the plain facts of the machine age are becoming clear, and I have every confidence that we're going to use them to chart a good course into the challenging, abundant economy that we're creating.
And then there's a coastal plain along the Mediterranean, where Tel Aviv is now.
And connecting the mountain range with the coastal plain is an area called the Shephelah, which is a series of valleys and ridges that run east to west, and you can follow the Shephelah, go through the Shephelah to get from the coastal plain to the mountains.
But more importantly, though, in the history of that region, it's served, it's had a real strategic function, and that is, it is the means by which hostile armies on the coastal plain find their way, get up into the mountains and threaten those living in the mountains.
The Philistines, who are the biggest of enemies of the Kingdom of Israel, are living in the coastal plain.
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