- a homely child.
- a palpable lie.
- a plain blue suit.
- a plain girl with a freckled face.
- a plain hair style.
- a plain rectangular brick building.
- evident hostility.
- functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete.
- he is plain stubborn.
- he longed for the fields of his youth.
- he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list.
- I thought he owned the property, but apparently not.
- in plain view.
- it is all patently nonsense.
- it is plain that he is no reactionary.
- made his meaning plain.
- manifest disapproval.
- My mother complains all day.
- not an unmixed blessing.
- patent advantages.
- plain food.
- plain water.
- several of the buildings were downright homely.
- She has a lot to kick about.
- she has apparently been living here for some time.
- she was in bed and evidently in great pain.
- sheer wine.
- stuck to the plain facts.
- the answer is obviously wrong.
- the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields.
- the plain and unvarnished truth.
- the unvarnished candor of old people and children.
- they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain.
- unembellished white walls.
- You are plainly wrong.