PLY in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for PLY, such as:
1. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
2. John's been plying me with drinks all evening.
3. Our company's ferryboats ply across the English Channel everyday.
4. In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.
5. Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food.
2. John's been plying me with drinks all evening.
3. Our company's ferryboats ply across the English Channel everyday.
4. In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.
5. Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food.
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Meanings and Examples of PLY
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ply
n. one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
v. wield vigorously
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 Upon the first proposal made by Candide, however, the Levantine captain had already tacked about, and made the crew ply their oars quicker than a bird cleaves the air.
2 The man had ceased to ply her with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
3 This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
4 Three emotions made the ply of human life.
5 First, in front of all, Palinurus steered the close column; the rest under orders ply their course by his.
6 Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.
7 She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance.
8 So, they plied their oars once more, and I looked out for anything like a house.
9 I found that Mrs. Heep gradually got nearer to me, and that Uriah gradually got opposite to me, and that they respectfully plied me with the choicest of the eatables on the table.
10 But though he repeatedly plied Stepan Arkadyevitch with questions as to the possibility of obtaining a certificate without actually communicating, Stepan Arkadyevitch maintained that it was out of the question.
11 Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbed up her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.
12 It was the same at supper where they all plied him with questions about the war.
13 They felt that a thousand inimical eyes looked at them through the unshaded front window and the four women, with fear in their hearts, bent their heads and plied their needles.
14 She bathed Madame Ratignolle's face with cologne, while Robert plied the fan with unnecessary vigor.
15 Hold them there, Sagamore," said Hawkeye, looking coolly backward over this left shoulder, while he still plied his paddle; "keep them just there.
Example Sentence:
1 Our company's ferryboats ply across the English Channel everyday.
2 In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.
3 Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food.
4 John's been plying me with drinks all evening.