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How to use plethora in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Plethora means an excessive amount or number; an abundance. Example: “The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.”

Examples of plethora by meaning

nounAn excessive amount or number; an abundance.

  • The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
  • The story of the woodhen is one outstanding conservation triumph in a plethora of tragedy.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 233

More sentences with plethora

  • Meatballs, rissoles, patties, croquettes: Soviet cuisine had a plethora of names for dishes made from minced meat.2015, Olga Syutkin, Pavel Syutkin, translated by Ast A. Moore, CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine, London: Fuel Design &…. From the entry kotleta
  • His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 74. From the entry venesection
  • They are buried under a plethora of symbols and rendered inanimate by severe and rigid stylization.1979, Burr Cartwright Brundage, “The Quality of the Numinous”, in The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World (Texas Pan American Series), 1st…. From the entry familial
  • There is, Lord knows, a veritable plethora of things people see and don't see in pigs.1978, William Hedgepeth, The Hog Book, Doubleday, page 118. From the entry hogritude
  • A plethora of sub-superstitions thus accumulated around the sacrament of the altar.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 32. From the entry sub-superstition
  • This is only one of a plethora of eisegeses by which images of Mary were detected in the OT.2003, James Leslie Houlden, Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 599. From the entry eisegesis
  • Never have I seen such a collation as was spread before us. (That’s Victorian for a plethora of gorgeous bitesful of sweets).1995 May 21, Jean Martin, “It happened in the month of May”, in The Selma Times-Journal, Selma, Ala., page B2. From the entry biteful
  • On Shaw Butte, as elsewhere in the Phoenix area, creosotes are abundant, producing a plethora of small yellow flowers in late March and April.1994, John Alcock, Sonoran Desert Summer, page 88. From the entry creosote
  • Emotions and feelings, on Scrutton’s account, are represented by a plethora of words in Latin, none of which convey what modern accounts of emotion seek to convey.2021 May 5, Patricia L. Grosse, “When the Love Is Bad”, in Claude-Hélène Mayer, Elisabeth Vanderheiden, editors, International Handbook of…. From the entry proto-emotion
  • I had to memorise so much dialogue that never makes it into the movie so I always have a plethora of extra gubbins I can't remember.2017 summer, Milla Jovovich, “My Movie Masterming: Resident Evil Special”, in Empire, number 337, page 135. From the entry gubbins
  • Those walking technicolor signals can be explored at the Run 2, or 3, which would further open a way to a plethora of yet other (colored) technipions.2016, Shinya Matsuzaki, Koichi Yamawaki, “Walking from 750 GeV to 950 GeV in the Technipion Zoo”, in arXiv. From the entry technipion
  • I found a plethora of digital projects during my stay, ranging from a multimedia library and a 'cybermosque' to several web forums and a townshipwide 'smart community' initiative.2013, Daniel Miller, Digital Anthropology - Page 170. From the entry cybermosque
  • Like small African antelopes, sengis spend their life exposed to the elements while relying on disruptive coloration to act as camouflage from the plethora of African predators.2010, Joseph F[rancis] Merritt, “Mating Systems and Reproductive Strategies”, in The Biology of Small Mammals, Baltimore, Md.: Johns…. From the entry sengi
  • Other patterns include varied adaptations of paisleys, Tree of Life motifs, tiles, scenics, patchworks, ticking, soft-edge geometries, sports themes, crewel shapes, houndsteeth, and a plethora of florals.1974, Interior Design, volume 45, New York, N.Y.: Interior Design Division of Whitney Communication Corp., →OCLC, page 251, column 1. From the entry houndstooth

Meaning of plethora

  1. noun An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
  2. noun Excess of blood in the skin, especially in the face and especially chronically.

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Questions about plethora in a sentence

How do you use plethora in a sentence?
Plethora is used as a noun. For example: “The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.”
What is a short sentence with plethora?
“The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.”
What does plethora mean?
Plethora means an excessive amount or number; an abundance.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plethora (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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