Example Sentences

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George F. Plaits Ormond Beach, Fla. Your article on the Postal Service was well reasoned, informative, accurate, and went as straight as an arrow to its mark.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not long after this, when she had Occasion for her Handkerchief, which upon the first opening discovered among the Plaits of it the Figure of the Doctor.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Plaits were “out” next year, and the Heath sisters were among the first to read it in the fashion notes.

From Across the Years by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Plaits for Venus, puffs for Juno, folds for Minerva.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

Bridge, Bridges; Brook, Brooks; Platt, Plaits, in others we find a regular preference either for the singular or plural form.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest