Example sentences for: plugged

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

  • What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.

  • This may be the first time a specific television broadcast has been plugged in a Times obituary.

  • Lee wins praise for his "gently ironic touch" in adapting a novel by Rick Moody, and for being "less interested in assigning blame for all the misery than in simply documenting it" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The movie is plugged here.

  • She was an icon, a catalyst, plugged in to American women via the lecture circuit, and to establishment men, such as boyfriends Mike Nichols and Mortimer Zuckerman, via the social circuit.

  • Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ) complains about the unfair leaks emanating from Starr's office, an odd gripe coming from a D.C. journalist, given that their business would shut down overnight if leaks were plugged.


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