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Example sentences for "quite plain"

  • A reference to the previous example will make this quite plain.

  • We next come to the doctrine of the Incarnation; which however is so clearly stated in the Athanasian Creed, that its meaning is quite plain.

  • And from this the next step, as to the existence of God, is quite plain; in fact, it is merely a question of words.

  • But I think it is quite plain that he does not mean merely this, when he says that truth is mutable.

  • It's quite plain that we can have no more wading after ducks, but the fish won't object to feed in cold weather, so we'll try them again after having had a bit to eat.

  • That, it's quite plain, would let the others go, and you would lose the whole of your prisoners instead of two of them.

  • He may have to do things that wouldn't seem quite nice to a dainty young woman, and folks may denounce him; but it's quite plain that if you stay here you will have to stand in with somebody.

  • The thing's quite plain," said one of them.

  • I do not know whether you told him that you loved him or not; but it is quite plain to me that you made him think so.

  • Well," said the miner drily, "I guess it ought to be quite plain to you.

  • In truth, as there is no medium between war and peace, it is quite plain that a tumult, if it be not a sort of war, must be a sort of peace; and what more absurd can be said or imagined?

  • It is quite plain, therefore, that oratory ought to be confined to rhythm, and kept clear of metre.

  • Now, it is quite plain where we are to place the distinguished person of whom I speak.

  • The cause of this diversity is quite plain.

  • What slavery is in the middle of the nineteenth century is quite plain; what it will be at the beginning of the twentieth it is not difficult to foresee.

  • I wasn't there, but the big swirl in the water is quite plain to me, and I can see the bodies coming up through the green heave by twos and threes.

  • Still, it's quite plain to me that we can't stay here.

  • It is quite plain to me that it could only have been him or Tony, and the latter suggestion is preposterous.

  • All I want you to do is to be quite plain to my little daughter.

  • In Wormleighton Church, Warwickshire, the altar rails have on them the date of 1664; and the communion table, which is quite plain, is of the same character and era.

  • Then I think their meaning must be quite plain," replied the other coolly.

  • The first portion of the statement on this folio is quite plain," remarked the Professor at last, looking up and blinking at the young man.

  • Of course it is quite plain," she responded, making a bold stroke for her life.

  • Dear Priscilla, I am not vexed: but I only wanted to make it quite plain to you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being discovered; could stop; hath been; plain clothes; quite aware; quite clean; quite common; quite contrary; quite easily; quite evident; quite fresh; quite happy; quite large; quite likely; quite modern; quite naturally; quite ready; quite recent; quite smooth; quite soft; quite sufficient; quite the; quite thick; quite unknown; quite unnecessary; quite well