Example sentences for: plains

How can you use “plains” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The study was conducted in the plains of the Commune of Leogane, located west of Port au Prince.

  • Marathon provided the model after it was reintroduced into English from Greek with the First Olympic Games at Athens in 1896, according to the OED . The long-distance running event honored the warrior who in 490 B.C. ran to Athens in order to announce the Greek victory over the Persians on the plains of Marathon.

  • North of Portimão, and extending across the western half of the province, is the Serra de Monchique, a mountain range that protects the coast from the hot plains farther north.

  • A short piece says there is a "child famine" in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming are not producing enough children to sustain their small towns.

  • Our popular image of the North American Indian is conditioned by Hollywood’s stereotype — feather headdress, necklace of scalps, and whooping war dances around the campfire — which in fact derived from the prairie tribes, or Plains Indians, as they are known to American anthropologists.


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