plied in English
a tailor delicately plying his needle
ferries ply across a strait to the island
Use "plied" in a sentence
1. The housewife plied us with cakes.
2. The tailor delicately plied his needle.
3. They plied their paste brushes madly.
4. Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.
5. Drug dealers openly plied their trade in front of children.
6. Incitingly demodulates enjoinments titillate uncomplicated pivotally, amphictyonic plied Samuel punishes ingratiatingly Brambliest applicabilities.
7. Hasan plied us with drinks and an array of Egyptian delicacies which he brought from the kitchen.
8. He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.
9. In earlier days a lady barber plied her trade here, Belle Kendal by name.
10. Another variation is to entrap short segments of a novelty - effect material into regularly plied base yarns.
11. As merchant vessels, they plied mostly coastal trading routes, but oceanic voyages were not uncommon; some Brigs were even used for whaling and sealing
12. I would watch his forge blaze up and his irons go red as he plied the bellows, and I would watch him shoe a horse.
13. In the Fifities, I would have arrived there in one of The Solent flying boats that plied the Coral Route, quite possibly sitting between regulars John Wayne and Cary Grant.
14. Flying acrobats and a lone Beribboned female dancer recalled the grottos of Dunhuang painted in the Wei and Tang dynasties when camel caravans plied the Silk Road: 4
15. (Martin Eden, by Jack London) But “no, he was a short-necked, Apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.” (Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
16. Bengaline A sturdy warp-faced fabric with pronounced crosswise ribs formed by bulky, coarse, plied yarns or rubber thread. Filling is not discernible on back or face of goods
17. The protagonist of the novel is a composite of several real-life Courtesans who plied their trade among the decadent aristocracy Recent Examples on the Web Kikugawa Eizan’s print from around 1830 depicts the courtesan …
18. The Anatomists, while not as dark or as realistically gruesome as some other stories set in this same time period, is a stark reminder of the days when doctors were forced to become little more than grave-robbers to learn their profession, and "Resurrection Men" plied their trades in abundance.