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How to use plush in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Plush means very extravagant. Example: “They lived in a plush apartment complex.”

Examples of plush by meaning

adjectiveVery expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.

  • They lived in a plush apartment complex.

adjectiveHaving a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).

  • This plush toy is so cute and soft — I want it!

nounA textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

  • It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New...

nounA plush toy.

  • When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.2002 March 2, Billboard, volume 114, number 9, page 70
  • Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012, page 759

More sentences with plush

  • She was a family friend. I remember riding in her car as a child. It was an Oldsmobile and seemed a bit plush and expensive compared with our car.From the entry Oldsmobile
  • In fact, it’s the plush aspect that is arousing to them.2021 May 14, “Fetish Friday: Autoplushophilia”, in Between the Thighs. From the entry autoplushophilia
  • "I had you pegged as the Romeo of some plush, private school."1986, Emilie Richards, Something So Right, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry refantasize
  • Next to me at a minus distance stands a country woman in a shawl and plush jacket.1972, The Malahat Review, numbers 21–24, page 30. From the entry sooshka
  • My clearest memory involved plush toys from a certain TV series starring a character with an anpan for a head.2022, EDA, translated by Gwendolyn Warner, Cooking with Wild Game, volume 19, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry anpan
  • She began by walking around the stage and into the audience, proudly showing her big plush red velvet bag.2018, Linda Cruse, Leading on the Frontline: Remarkable Stories and Essential Leadership Lessons from the World's Danger Zones, Wiley…. From the entry change bag
  • Three or four times a week we'd see Ronnie Kray filling his face at Browns in the pulsatingly plush restaurant.2010, David Dinwoodie Irving, African Cookboy, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry fill one's face
  • That plush mustache of yours has completely swooned me!2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly…. From the entry swoon
  • She'd no sooner compliantly strapped herself into an out-of-the-way plush chair than Takuma Tanabe and an entourage of staff velcroids entered.1993, Jack McKinney, Hostile Takeover, Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry velcroid
  • Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light. From the entry isis
  • Yes, under director Sidonie Garrett, this show is crisp in its action, plush in its pageantry, and all aclang with speeches and swordplay.2006 June 29, Alan Scherstuhl, “War's a Picnic”, in The Pitch. From the entry aclang
  • I had a nicely appointed (realtors' jargon for Wally World baroque) mobile home, a sort of plush culvert on wheels, and a new dog.2004, Bob Wyatt., Trout Hunting: The Pursuit of Happiness, page 172. From the entry Wally World
  • The man who put cornflakes on America's breakfast tables enjoyed the latest recreation vehicle, a plush, buslike house car designed to his specifications.2000, Roger Byron White, Home on the road: the motor home in America. From the entry buslike
  • Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."1998, Dana Cain, Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry smokey
  • These New Pokémon Plushes Are Certified Big Chungi The Pokémon Center just released huge plush versions of Gigantamax Pikachu and Meowth, with a giant price tag to match.2020 April 30, Rachel Gonzalez, “These New Pokémon Plushes Are Certified Big Chungi”, in The Gamer. From the entry chungus
  • They either end up stuck in his playpen, in the pail, turned into a plush, turned into a diapercritter or even just a plain diaper on his hips!2020 October 15, @CalDromeda, Twitter. From the entry diapercritter
  • Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.1990 July 13, Rita Kempley, “‘Quick Change’ (R)”, in The Washington Post. From the entry underwhelming
  • This is the story of a successful adventureress: Two weeks ago the manager of the Hotel Biltimore—which is the newest plush lined pile in town—spoke to the cashier.1914 April 2, “So Easy to Fool New York”, in The Enid Morning News, Enid, Okla., page three, column 1. From the entry adventureress
  • Now bids are submitted by button companies for the Teddy Bear contract, and Germany plush factories manufacture plush especially for the bear market at Giengen Brenz.1908 November 5, “The First “Teddy Bears.””, in Presbyterian Banner, volume 95, Pittsburgh, →OCLC, page 16 (692), column 2. From the entry bear market

Meaning of plush

  1. adjective Very extravagant.
  2. adjective Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.
  3. adjective Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).

Full definition of plush

Questions about plush in a sentence

How do you use plush in a sentence?
Plush is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “They lived in a plush apartment complex.”
What is a short sentence with plush?
“They lived in a plush apartment complex.”
What does plush mean?
Plush means very extravagant.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plush (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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