plumb

Example Sentences

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She had focused on romance stories about Navy SEALs but realized she was trying too hard to plumb an unfamiliar topic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

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

That cast Webster, who had earlier had a let-off when Bavuma declined to review a plumb lbw when on eight, as the man to perform the rescue act.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

But it does not, and while I couldn’t crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates