PLATE in a Sentence

Learn PLATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
195 example sentences for PLATE, such as:
1. Don't scrape the plate, Scarlett.
2. Be careful not to drop that plate.
3. He heaped more food onto his plate.
4. Cover the bowl with an inverted plate.
5. She looked at the extra cup and plate.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PLATE
plate
 n.  a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
 n.  (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Classic Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
1  She had already pushed her plate aside, and was measuring out a draught from a large bottle at her elbow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  The table had been as carefully laid, a clear fire glowed in the stove, the cat dozed in its warmth, and Mattie came forward carrying a plate of doughnuts.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said "Good Pussy," stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Pork entered the room, bearing a plate, silver and a napkin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Mammy stood beside the table, watching every forkful that traveled from plate to mouth, as though she intended to force the food down Ellen's throat should she see signs of flagging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Melanie had been sitting quietly, her hands in her lap, her waffles cooling on her plate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  There was some hominy left in the pot and she ate it with a big cooking spoon, not waiting to put it on a plate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He saw the flame of indignant pride in them and he dropped his gaze quickly to his plate in embarrassment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Don't scrape the plate, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  Lily obeyed, and when she turned back into the room her father was sitting with both elbows on the table, the plate of salmon between them, and his head bowed on his hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She looked at the extra cup and plate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  She's got a lot on her plate - especially with two new projects starting this week.
2  There's some white stuff on this plate.
3  Cover the bowl with an inverted plate.
4  The design is incised into a metal plate.
5  Be careful not to drop that plate.
6  Bring the broken edges of the plate together exactly where they were and then glue them carefully.
7  There's still lots of food on your plate.
8  He heaped more food onto his plate.
9  He emptied the biscuits onto the plate.
10  He wiped his plate clean with a piece of bread.
11  Remove the wafers with a spoon and transfer them to a plate.
12  I promised to replace the plate that I'd dropped.
13  As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate.
14  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate.
15  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.