How to Use plain sailing in a Sentence

plain sailing

noun

• Though the girls are said to be doing well, the surgery was not plain sailing.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 16 July 2019
• The start to life at the Signal Iduna Park was not strictly plain sailing, though.
  — SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Still, no more plain sailing for you now, no getting out of this one: fly to Switzerland, join the rest of the jury, help pick a winner from the nominees.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Staley’s reign atop Barclays since 2015 has been anything but plain sailing.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Liverpool's run to the final was far from plain sailing, with the team having to overturn a three goal deficit against Barcelona in the semi-final second leg.
  — SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The family’s first years in Canada were not at all plain sailing, however.
  — Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• If Pogacar's victory was one for the ages, this year's Tour wasn't always plain sailing, however, after a woman held out a banner and caused the crash of dozens of cyclists during the first stage.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 18 July 2021
• Installing the London sculpture has not been plain sailing, however.
  — Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• And even if Christmas does turn out to be better than expected – because a Brexit deal has been struck and an election delayed until 2020 — that doesn’t mean plain sailing from now on.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• The journey was relatively plain sailing, with only a minor hiccup of a music score flying off a stand, though quickly rescued from the water.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Any Given Saturday' which is being serialised in the Daily Mirror, not everything was plain sailing behind the scenes.
  — SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• But the military relationship hasn’t been plain sailing either.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024