plumb

Example Sentences

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Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The songs on Del Real’s first solo album — the title yet to be revealed — plumb the depths of silence and sonic expansion.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

In effect, the complaint here invites the Journal’s lawyer to use interrogatories and depositions to plumb the entire relationship between the two men.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025

It took me longer to grasp just how tired was plumb tired and what really happened when someone flew off the handle.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

If a factory was nearby, he’d explain how you used a plumb line to get the chimney straight and why the windows had been placed a certain way to let in the maximum light.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey