How to Use ply in a Sentence

ply

1 of 2 verb

• On the eastern edge of the province, whales ply the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
  — Outside Online, 25 July 2022
• Only a fraction of the city’s cabs even ply the streets now.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• For lunch, flag down one of the vendors that ply Zipolite's beach.
  — Kyle A. Valenta, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
• The Fleurieu Arthouse is a great place to watch local artists plying their trade.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
• Off the beach, a group of snorkelers ply the fish-rich waters, while the dinghy that brought them to shore has been returned to the cruise ship.
  — Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• The white vans sometimes stopped at liquor stores on the way to Phoenix to ply people with alcohol.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Sellers at the meth bazaar in rural western Afghanistan have long been free to ply their trade.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• And a van can even be a mobile place of business, the rolling base from which tradesmen and women ply their crafts.
  — The Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2021
• What makes the usto ply their craft when their own culture moves beyond them?
  — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Fishing vessels that ply the high seas often are away for many months at a time.
  — National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
• The drift boat was conceived to ply its icy waters, and the area is full of history and characters.
  — Andy Nelson, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2020
• And each comes with a butler to ply you with refreshing cocktails.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Every artisan should have the best tools available to ply their trade.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The men bent the fence post into the shape of a shepherds hook and began plying the bottom of the small farm pond in hopes of snagging Haack’s buck.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2023
• The source of the trouble lay farther away in the oil-rich Persian Gulf, where millions of Egyptian migrants ply their trades.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2020
• Puzon’s, on the other hand, was a throwback, a small storefront where a craftsman would ply his trade in plain sight.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• But the grandmother’s solely visual cameo may still ply misty from you.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• The multi-brand retailer has been plying this trade for 2,500 years.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• In Phnom Penh’s museum, the skulls are stacked in aquarium tanks: grim toys for hooks to ply free from the rubble.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Some New Yorkers who ply the longest subway route say the city feels unmoored.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• He’s never been an excuse maker, just a man that continues to ply his trade with a smile.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 11 June 2021
• His solution was to fasten the younger kids, 4 and nearly 2 years old, into their car seats, ply them with ice cream, and cue Shrek 2 on the videoscreen in the van.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 22 June 2021
• The rest walk, bicycle or take the electric buses that ply the narrow, cobbled streets of the city’s old quarter.
  — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
• For the underground chemists who used to operate on the fringes of the law to ply their trade in the psychedelic industry, that’s a very good thing.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2021
• The steamer was designed for river service, to ply the length of the Columbia River.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• The woman said McWilliams attempted to ply her with alcohol and, later, the men raped her while smacking her.
  — Freep.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• Workers in the arts, desperate to ply their craft and earn an income, are ever yearning when asked what next fall could look like.
  — Photographs By Dina Litovsky, Victor Llorente and Daniel Arnold Michael Paulson, Elizabeth A. Harris and Graham Bowley, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• As do fishermen who ply the waters off Ecuador and Peru.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Forty different species of slugs, most of them invasive and most nocturnal, ply the damp, shady realms of North America’s leafy habitats.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024
• Four generations of fishermen in the same family, plying the same Alaskan waters.
  — Laurel Braitman, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2024

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ply

2 of 2 noun

• Shop all of Maskc's KN95 and three-ply face masks here.
  — Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• These use a two-ply polyester cloth and have elastic loops for the ears.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2020
• And people are gonna snap 'em up like the last roll of two-ply at Kroger.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2020
• And people are gonna snap ’em up like the last roll of two-ply at Walmart.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2020
• Inside the ball is a high-tech three-ply polyurethane bladder.
  — Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
• The feeling is a little like driving on bias-ply tires.
  — Dan Neil, Car and Driver, 2 June 2020
• This stainless steel set of pots and pans is triple-ply and oven-safe up to 450 degrees.
  — Valerie Li Stack, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• The longevity of this treadmill is promising thanks in large part to the thick three-ply running belt.
  — Megan Oster, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• This process twists the wool fibers into a single-ply rope-like structure.
  — Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2022
• Smith cautions that the bias-ply Hoosiers will take a few laps to heat up, and I'm sent off to figure the rest out for myself.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2022
• Gimmicky marketers use two- or three-ply yarns to double or triple the thread count.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2022
• Until around 1970, almost all cars and trucks rolled on bias-ply tires.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 June 2017
• The toilet paper is just a fun bonus, but adding on to that, the toilet paper is even two-ply.
  — Alex Harrison, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Three-ply disposable face masks cost as little as $10 for a box of 50.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2020
• Five-ply and copper-core pans cost more, but aren’t that much better.
  — Marni Jameson | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• For some obsessives, those old-school, thick-ply, blocky hoodies are the holy grail.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• These two-ply face masks are made of a cotton-and-elastane shell and a cotton lining.
  — Shari Uyehara, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2021
• Custom Ink makes masks that are a single-ply blend of 95% cotton and 5% spandex.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 15 July 2020
• The bias ply is easier to retread while the radial is lighter.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• In each stall, a long metal bar held a half-dozen rolls of single-ply toilet paper.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• This simple one-ply car cover comes in a bevy of sizes to fit mid-size sedans, large SUVS, and many in between.
  — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022
• The three-ply masks come in a pack of 50 assorted prints and are recommended for children ages five to 14.
  — Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Two-ply yarn means a thread that is made up of two smaller strands that have been twisted together.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2022
• The ply, or number of threads wrapped together, and fiber choice make a difference, too.
  — Kelley Carter, ELLE Decor, 10 June 2020
• Those three-ply masks will corral the residual odors of your late-night anchovy-and-onion pizza.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
• That hasn't changed since Handley and that is what Rodgers, skin as thick as one-ply, might be walking into.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• Ply: Sheets can be woven from single-ply or multi-ply threads.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 9 July 2017
• The ply, or number of threads wrapped together, as well as fiber choice makes a difference, too.
  — Hannah Morrill, ELLE Decor, 15 Nov. 2018
• The other plies mirth and throws one hell of an unreal supper party.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
• This 50-pack of three-ply disposable masks have been a reader favorite for months and are an easy way to protect yourself and others from the spread of the virus.
  — Julianne Ross, CNN Underscored, 10 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024