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Example sentences for "ply"

Lexicographically close words:
plutonic; plutonium; plutot; pluvial; pluvialis; plyce; plyed; plyght; plying; plywood
  1. On the opposite side of the High Street (Nos.

  2. On the trim gate enclosing its old courtyard, is a resplendent brass plate flashing forth the legend, ‘Seminary for young Ladies.

  3. He has even (in selling landed property) tried the experiment of slightly intoning in his pulpit, to make himself more like what he takes to be the genuine ecclesiastical article.

  4. I seizing, quick, our longest pole on board, Back thrust her from the coast and by a nod In silence given, bade my companions ply Strenuous their oars, that so we might escape.

  5. Seek thou then again Thy own apartment, spindle ply and loom, And task thy maidens; management belongs 450 To men of joys convivial, and of men Especially to me, chief ruler here.

  6. Moreover, it is now building four great steamships which are to be finished simultaneously with the Panama Canal and which will ply through it from New York direct to Hong Kong.

  7. The freight-traffic is handled largely by car-floats in charge of the busy puffing tugs, while the passenger traffic goes in ferry-boats different from the others that ply in New York harbor.

  8. I swear by the god by whom my people swear, he shall never again ply his skill on the men of Ulster.

  9. Meanwhile, as we ply the peaceful calumet, mine hostess tells of quaint old customs that, until only the other day, survived in this quiet countryside.

  10. Availing ourselves of one of the numerous vehicles that ply during summer-time between Haverfordwest and the sea-coast, we escape a tedious tramp of some seven miles or more.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; beset; besiege; boat; break; bug; buttonhole; cajole; canoe; cant; cast; circumnavigate; coast; coat; coating; coax; collop; course; cover; covering; crease; crimp; crisp; cross; cruise; cut; deal; disk; double; doubling; dun; employ; enfold; exercise; exert; feel; film; finger; flap; flexure; flick; flounce; flute; foil; fold; frill; gather; handle; importune; insist; jibe; lap; lappet; leaf; manage; maneuver; manipulate; measure; membrane; motorboat; nag; navigate; operate; overpass; palm; pane; panel; patina; patrol; paw; peel; pellicle; perambulate; pester; pinch; plague; plait; plank; plat; plate; plating; play; pleat; plicate; ply; plywood; poke; practice; press; pressure; prod; push; range; rasher; reconnoiter; row; ruche; ruff; ruffle; run; sail; scour; scout; scull; scum; sheer; sheet; shift; skin; slab; slat; slice; steam; steamboat; sweep; swerve; swing; table; tablet; tack; tap; tease; throw; thumb; touch; track; transit; travel; traverse; tuck; turn; twiddle; twill; urge; use; utilize; veer; veneer; voyage; wafer; wear; wheedle; wield; wind; work; yacht