Example sentences for: plum

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

  • On the one hand there were names which were qualified before being applied, like wild currant, wild fig, wild geranium, wild indigo, wild parsnip, wild spinach, wild yam; or native flax, nabox, native cherry, native cranberry, native flax, native grass, native myrtle, native parsley, native plum; or names in which the qualifier is a color, as in blue gum, green wattle, white honeysuckle.

  • It's currently building the F-117A Stealth fighter and the thoroughly unnecessary F-22 for the Air Force, and is bidding against Boeing for the contract to build the Joint Strike fighter, the last great contracting plum of the century.

  • In racing slang a pony is ¥25, a monkey ¥500, a cow ¥1000, plum ¥100,000, and a marigold ¥1 million.

  • Local warlords and Kuomintang officials were among the early patrons of this spa, surrounded by hills covered with bamboo, plum, magnolia, and cypress trees.

  • He played tennis with Franjo Tudjman, drank shots of plum brandy with Slobodan Milosevic before lunch, enacted hysterical scenes of feigned and real anger, and essentially sat on the heads of the various participants until they cried uncle.


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