Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plainer
IPA transcription: [pl'eɪnɚ]
Usage examples
  • Can I speak plainer?
  • "Yes, but Mr. Jimmy, how is a child's spelling-book to be made any plainer?"
  • And as she talked to her husband Anna Pavlovna looked thinner, older, plainer.
  • We could do it easily, by living in a plainer way; by giving up one or two trifles.
  • In plainer terms, the stranger from Rosemary Lane was no other than--Captain Wragge.
  • Here I split my discourse (give me your arm, Sophronia), into three heads, to make it shorter and plainer.
  • Slowly, the distant redness became plainer and larger; until, as I drew nearer, it spread out into a great, somber glare--dull and tremendous. Still, I fled onward, and, presently, I had come so close, that it seemed to stretch beneath me, like a great ocean of somber red.