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
• 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 vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• Pretty much everybody has a pair of auricles or pinnae, which is plural for pinna.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024