Sample Sentences forplumbgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
plumb as in: it is plumb
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The tower of Pisa is far out of plumb.plumb = a state of being exactly vertical or straight
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Don't assume ghosts if your door swings by itself. It is probably not plumb.plumb = hanging straight
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Chet taught me how to plumb a line for the pickets, how to hold a hammer down on the end of the handle instead of choking up on it, how to calculate an adjusted spacing for the pickets, and how to use a level to get the wood exactly vertical. (source)plumb = make straight
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Using a pebble on a horsehair string, he dropped it deep in the hole and let it hung to see if the hole was plumb to the earth. (source)plumb = exactly vertical
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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. (source)plumb = straight
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All unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus
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You've been listening to the story of Peeby and plumb missed Indiana. (source)plumb = completely (used as an intensifier)
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Mr. Montier signs for me up at that Wallace store so's I can get my tools, my mule, my seed, my fertilizer, my food, and what few clothes I needs to keep my children from runnin' plumb naked. (source)plumb = completely
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Ah'm plumb wore out and hungry as a wallow-hog. (source)
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She's plumb broke. (source)plumb = completely
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This is plumb outta kilter. (source)
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Plumb nasty. (source)
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One a' them grates on the towa flo' was left wide open, and he fell plumb through, and they reckoned that was suspicious. (source)
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