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• It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.From the entry scorching
• Plied with mugs of sugary cocoa, a frighteningly willing audience heeded the call of duty.2022 November 28, Lauren Mechling, “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal”, in The Guardian. From the entry Scroogey
• “So he plies you with jewels and pours honey in your ear, and now you feel bad?”2016, Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury, Bloomsbury, page 335. From the entry pour honey in one's ear
• Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cloche
• Out on the lake small craft with pagodalike canopies ply the waters, transporting tourists.2007 September 16, Paula Deitz, “Where Progress Is Just a Walk in the Park”, in New York Times. From the entry pagodalike
• Quality specifications for plywood subfloor material are such that only the outside plys are knot-free.1963, Materials Research and Standards, volume 3, page 67. From the entry plys
• The front bar was plying trade too, by customers that kept oozing in through the back door.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry muzzy
• There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […]…. From the entry dwarfish
• Lady Geoghegan plied hers with questions, and received a series of quite uninforming answers.1906, George A. Birmingham, Hyacinth. From the entry uninforming
• She plied her trade at $3 a time.2024 December 24, Wikipedia contributors, “Madeline Blair”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1264998440. From the entry plied
• While he worked to ply fingers back apart more than not, Kaiselan practised his crouch exploring the outpost's more topmost levels.2015, Seth Giolle, The Cane Stories. From the entry topmost
• Vacancies were becoming more and more rare as rejuvenators plied their controversial trade, turning good citizens into multicentenarian eloi.2014, Greg Bear, Queen of Angels, →ISBN. From the entry multicentenarian
• Tommy had apparently been plied with ice cream and soda pop at the police station, to loosen his tongue.2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 11, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, page 552. From the entry loosen someone's tongue
• The individual plies are then unrolled and each separated at the transverse perforations to provide separate stationery forms.1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 583. From the entry deleave
• In Spain, the “Rome-Berlin Axis" had its way, and on the Mediterranean "unknown" undercraft plied their game of piracy.1940, Nykyfor I︠A︡. Hryhoriïv, Democracy: Its Channels and Tasks, page 22. From the entry undercraft
• They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces. From the entry impressionable
• He swam through the plying poles of the stickle, and ran over the shallow, reaching safe water before the pack came down.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry stickle
• Let's ply the saw and speed her, and whack up elm and cedar, and thus, O gentle reader, our well-known bulwarks guard.1920, Hearst's International - Volume 38, page 48. From the entry whack up
• However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25. From the entry bureaucracy
• We can eat in the kitchen, like we used to before you got old enough to ply the lads an' do all that mall jimjam with your pals.2013, P. D. Skelton, Renascence: A Story of Christianity in an Atheistic Future, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry jimjam
• My first trip, one of the free, public transportation boats that ply daily between the major islands, was to Wang'an about 13 miles southwest of Magong.1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 3. From the entry Wang'an
• From the later Middle Ages onwards a figure-caster discovered plying his trade among the people could expect to be brought before a church court for correction.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 352. From the entry figure-caster
• Over all the more populous districts the air was ever aswarm with planes up to a height of five miles, where the giant air-liners plied between the continents.1930, Olaf Stapledon, “IV, 3”, in Last and First Men. From the entry aswarm

Meaning of ply

1. noun A layer of material.
2. noun A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
3. noun In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.

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How do you use ply in a sentence?

Ply is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.”

What is a short sentence with ply?

“two-ply toilet paper”

What does ply mean?

Ply means a layer of material.