plump

Example Sentences

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The shake-up might have cheered investors, except that the stock’s plump dividend yield and 70-year history of payout increases will get a rethink at the time of the split.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

They got a little candy star and a dollop of filling, plump and honest like their German ancestor.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

The setting is a placid pond, on whose banks sits a plump and serene fellow in a kimono, his eyes closed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Cooper, who described herself as "rather plump" as a teenager, worried about disappointing her.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

Now alongside the empty milk crates at Mr. P’s, brown paper bags with collars neatly rolled boasted plump strawberries, crimson cherries and Chiquita bananas.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord