How to Use plural in a Sentence

plural

adjective
  • The word “trees” is a plural noun.
  • A number of them have been out for months, plural, all the way back to the spring.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • There were other teams, plural, that had Jones as the No.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The rabbis point out that the word lev (heart) is written in the plural, levavcha.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The term pentas is used as the singular and plural form.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • That’s not one French horn, it’s French horns, plural, people.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • That tamale is not a word, but tamal, singular, and tamales, plural, are.
    Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Typos aside, that’s a first-person plural that pretends to the crown.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
  • That's what drives most of my writing – the plural heritage of India.
    Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2018
  • For the first time in a long time, Boston College had playmakers — plural — on the floor.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The word Juebenaria means plural in the Yoeme language.
    AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • That’s womEN — plural — in every sketch, like it’s no big deal.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 July 2021
  • Solomon was born at the plural family's Las Vegas home and weighed 9 lbs., 10.5 oz.
    Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Visitors can look up how to translate a word, see the plural form of the word, change the tense of a verb or add an adjective to a noun.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Hence the Hebrew word for water is only in the plural – mayim.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Clinton is eternally in the plural tense, just like Kennedy or Bush.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2017
  • Would winning a Super Bowl — or bowls, plural — have changed things?
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • In last week's episode, Danielle was left wondering if a plural lifestyle is right for her.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022
  • This arrangement is similar to the mouths—yes, plural—of the Xenomorph queen in the science fiction movie Alien.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
  • For example, Miu Miu proved hats (yes, plural) are very much in and the black cat-eye continues to reign supreme.
    Allure, 29 June 2019
  • By the sound of it, Erin is hopeful that the show will continue for future seasons — yes, plural.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The country is grappling with the rise of a more plural society at the same time as many others are doing so.
    The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter plural noun.
    wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • In the last ten days, the Mueller probe has intensified with more indictments and more guilty pleas, plural.
    NBC News, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Though, Harry has hinted in the past that he's always wanted to have children (as in plural).
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2019
  • For their whole lives they had been valued solely as plural wives and as breeders of children.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2022
  • More From House Beautiful Birds-of-paradise (yes, that's the plural form) are toxic to cats, dogs, and horses.
    Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 3 Sep. 2023
  • A couple of things to bear in mind: Lederhosen is plural, so one pair of leather trousers is simply a lederhose.
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The dalleh – plural dallal – is the iconic Arab coffeepot, with a round base, curved neck, and ornate spout, found in markets and homes across the Middle East.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2023
  • This time, in plural form: Both sisters quickly checked with ACM officials to make sure each would be receiving her own trophy.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024

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