Plumb

//plʌm//

"Plumb" in a Sentence (20 examples)

With a plumb bob, the carpenter is making sure that our new house's walls will be vertical.

Mary will plumb her new house with stainless steel; she expects the pipes' endurance will make up for the higher cost.

That house was so poorly built that no floors were level and no walls were plumb.

The famous Tower of Pisa is now so seriously off plumb that Italy is taking special measures to keep it from collapsing.

Riding across Montana, the cowboy said, had left his horse plumb worn out.

He seems to be trying to plumb new depths of vulgarity with each profanity-laced album he releases.

The ladder was placed plumb against the wall.

That wall isn't plumb.

The wall there isn't plumb.

The wall there is not plumb.

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Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked.

Plumb down he drops.

It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.

Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.

'Are you sure of that, M. Hardman?' 'I'm plumb certain.'.

The kitchen sink is now plumbed in / up.

to plumb the depths of

Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.

The pressure had been on City, on Guardiola, to deliver the trophy that Sheikh Mansour has craved since his takeover in 2008 but it was an occasion when the manager found a new way to lose, to plumb fresh depths of frustration.

Without attending to sub-divisions, all the pears are of one species, as well as all the apples, plumbs, peaches, cherries, lemons, citrons, oranges […]

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