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Example sentences for "plumb"

Lexicographically close words:
plum; pluma; plumage; plumaged; plumages; plumbago; plumbe; plumbed; plumbeous; plumber
  1. Snake's plumb safe, so yuh got no call to worry about him.

  2. I went back to find your grip--you said you left it under a bush, but the world's plumb full of bushes.

  3. A man can get along without lots of things, but he's plumb lost without matches.

  4. She was plumb out of her head, and talked wild, but she handled her reins like a rider.

  5. I think she was plumb out of her head," he answered.

  6. It turned out to be Mabel Smith," says Stevie, "and I was scared plumb to death for a week or two that she would find out about it.

  7. That town was a most awful religious town, and Hank knew he was called the most unreligious man in it, and he was proud of that, too; and if any one called him a heathen it just plumb tickled him all over.

  8. But even that didn't jar him any--Freckles was plumb ruined.

  9. Them woods is jist plumb full of her children.

  10. Run off a few yards to your left and I'll go to the right, and let the next shot be plumb center.

  11. We're plumb out of meat, and then, I reckon, you all would like a day or two of hunting.

  12. A few plumb the depths of their ignorance before death: these are able to speak--and these are the teachers of men.

  13. As Satan was hurled, so, plumb out of the gates of Paradise, Bill fell.

  14. An' onless you're plumb locoed you'd never risk goin' near Pine or Show Down.

  15. Wal, he sure wasn't plumb hearty when I last seen him.

  16. Boss, you're plumb off to go near a dead gurl thet's jest died crazy," protested Shady Jones.

  17. Doing that, he will, if he is wise, examine as closely as he may the sum of human experience; then rely on plumb plain horse sense.

  18. To school the public to plumb to the cardinal causes for the like of the late, Los Angeles, degenerative manifestations, is to inform the public along the lines of the conclusion of this volume.

  19. Quartz is plumb heavy to move an' hard to market, if yuh don't have a mine.

  20. I dunno, but suppose some gents is plumb scared of their partner.

  21. Darn me, but I'm plumb glad to see yuh," Toothpick greeted.

  22. Anderson, yuh is plumb mixed in your animology.

  23. Bill, yuh an' me an' the rest of the folks in this town is plumb blind," Doc said sadly.

  24. I was lit up considerable, but now I'm plumb sober.

  25. I'm so darn small I'm plumb hard to hit," he said cheerfully.

  26. Plumb yellow, from the neck down and feet up," Tad Hicks hiccuped.

  27. The Toad plumb hates me, an' if he could down me he'd be willin' to cut and run for Mexico after.

  28. I figure there'll be some one who will be plumb anxious to pass the news on to the Toad.

  29. I wouldn't have been here to answer your questions if he hadn't plumb forgot to ask me to climb aboard.

  30. Just now, when we saw a trail blazed with white circles, we plumb forgot where we were and bolted.

  31. You'll choke plumb to death afore ye ever gits a drap from me," averred Sam.

  32. If he succeeds, you'll be plumb out in the cold.

  33. One time he was so timid he was plumb scared of the Super, and never got credit for the dandy work he did.

  34. Say, you're sure, plumb sure it ain't in one of my pockets?

  35. Now, I'll ask you not to get plumb scared when I tell you I think you're dead honest about this thing.

  36. I run plumb into them, crossin' here from Pardo.

  37. A center shot--plumb in the heart; his own gun goin' off while he was fallin'.

  38. You lift her one little wee lift, an' I bore you plumb in the brain-box.

  39. That black devil turns on a half-dollar an' plants his hoofs plumb in my breast-bone.

  40. About guys happenin' to run plumb into a murder when they was innocent of it--an' of them bein' accused of the murder.

  41. You ought to be plumb tickled, pullin' off a trick like that!

  42. Then a man far back in the room guffawed loudly: "Plumb loco.

  43. Folks was plumb disappointed we didn't ride it off.

  44. Finally she quit, an' she was plumb white with anger.

  45. I'm gonna make that li'l' girl plumb happy.

  46. I'll be plumb tender with 'em," he assured her, grinning.

  47. I plumb forgot to leave my belt of rifle cartridges back in th' camp.

  48. I'm plumb tired of waiting--these wounds hurt like blazes, too.

  49. Red, Johnny, Pete; cover th' windows an' fill that shack plumb full of lead.

  50. You look plumb wide awake, like Buck--how'd you do it?

  51. Why, old cayuse, if you can do without drinking till we get back to th' mesa we'll be plumb happy.

  52. Plumb sumptuous an' highfalutin', so to speak.

  53. Thought you was plumb stuck on that freak rock up north.

  54. Mebby it's plumb lucky for us it ain't so blamed light, after all; we'll have time to pick our places before they can see us real good.

  55. It would be plumb crazy for th' H2 to make a combination like that ear notch an' our brand, an' you can gamble they don't know nothing about it.

  56. Six out of seven went plumb through my sombrero, Red, when I poked it out to find if they was looking.

  57. This then gives the length of the rafter, and a line drawn along the edge of the tongue of the square will give the proper bevel for the top or plumb cut.

  58. The distance between the marks is the thickness, a plumb line marked on shows the width of the face mold on the bevel line.

  59. If it has been previously backed, then apply the square with the above figures on the lower edge at bottom of the plumb cut, or apply the square as for the jack, Fig.

  60. The squares as set give the plumb and level cuts.

  61. AC and AB, which will give the proper plumb cut at the sides and intersecting the line AA at the center.

  62. The blade gives the foot cut and the tongue the plumb cut.

  63. For plumb cut, take height of hip on tongue, length of hip on blade; tongue gives bevel.

  64. The distance from the corner of the square to B measured square back (at right angles) from the plumb bevel, as shown in Fig.

  65. D shows the foot of the rafter on the plate, cut "flat foot" and the line EC the plumb cut.

  66. The tongue giving the seat cut and the blade the plumb cut.

  67. She's plumb deserted," Scraggs shouted to his navigating officer.

  68. He so curious he don' notice anything, an' pretty soon he plumb fo'get where he is an' that he is listening where he have no business.

  69. He plumb fo'get all about this, an' he holler down that chimney.

  70. The boys realized that she would be "plumb discouraging" to any scheme for the adoption of this tiny waif, and knew the utter futility of trying to pull her heartstrings in any kind of sympathy for "only a cat.

  71. He hewed close to the chalk line and held his line plumb to truth.

  72. Overloaded cart with plumb line hanging from its center of gravity to outside its base of support.

  73. Properly loaded cart with plumb line hanging from its center of gravity to inside its base of support.

  74. It’s plumb taken all the money I’ve got to keep the soul alive in my body so I could study hard as I had to.

  75. Ye’re plumb wore out, an’ I can see it,” said he.

  76. Ye got plenty of money anyways—yore man was plumb rich, accordin’ to all I hear.

  77. We’ve been plumb forgot, here in the Cumberlands.

  78. Juliette who had fattened into the part; that congenial stateliness now thrown completely out of plumb by a violent limp, which, resulting from a railway accident, threw out her entire left leg as she walked.

  79. With each fluty mount how like a bird, the line of her throat, as her chin went up, throbbing slightly of its warbling, and from where she stood her gaze seeming to plumb them out.

  80. It's a city of madmen, plumb daffy about the big ditch.

  81. I missed him a mile, but he was so plumb discouraged with the heat and with running his laigs off that he up and laid down and handed in his checks.

  82. Mr. Plumb was actively and largely engaged in business affairs, and had perhaps as accurate knowledge of the resources of the West as any man in the country.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plumb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.