How to Use plummy in a Sentence

plummy

adjective

• The last of the trio of lipsticks is the plummy Stacey.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 22 Jan. 2021
• All in all, the film looks like a lot of fun, with plummy British accents to boot.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
• This basic Beaujolais is fresh, pure and plummy, with a touch of licorice.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• His plummy voice and expertise on wildlife give him away.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• The most convincing tenor was that of Blake Friedman as Iago, whose voice has a plummy fullness and dusky hue.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The plummy tone is almost my lip color, but so much prettier.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 June 2022
• Codigo 1530 ages its tequila for one month in Napa Valley Cab barrels to give the tequila a plummy-pink hue and a tannic bite from the grapes.
  — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• The Zuccardi was dark and plummy, with an aromatic note of leafiness.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• The jelly-like eye shadow dries to a last-all-day powder, and this ever-changing shimmery hue looks plummy one moment, teal the next.
  — Shelley Levitt, Orange County Register, 15 May 2017
• The orchestra has entered the sports arena before, or at least made plummy noises at the sidelines.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• Produced by the second oldest vineyard in the Commonwealth, this is a plummy and ripe, made in a modern style with a bit of dark earth adding interest.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Set to a voice-over of an actor reading the passage in a plummy English accent, the skit featured two actors who were, bizarrely, each dressed as the musician Prince.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The musical posits Britain as a land of fancy chandeliers, postcard palaces and plummy accents — what, no beefeaters?!?
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• Ice cream aromas abound, as with the cherry-vanilla and chocolate-mocha aromatics found in this pleasingly plump and plummy red wine.
  — Maureen Fitzgerald, Philly.com, 13 July 2017
• This, the penultimate vintage of the Rojo Grande, is floral and plummy, with a refreshing bitterness and a jolt of acidity that carries across the palate.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021
• Now overhauled in a far more refined style, this Portuguese rosé made from a blend mostly from Baga and Shiraz grapes along with others has a plummy richness with a dry, slightly tropical finish.
  — Amanda Schuster, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Watson himself speaks in the plummy tones of a broadcast announcer or audiobook narrator.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• And although Runciman’s plummy tone never rises to the level of alarm, his prediction is that everything is about to get worse, and this is the point in his account where A.I. becomes more than a useful retrospective metaphor.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• In addition to his regulation Englishman’s brolly, Craig’s uniform for the event was a sumptuous formal velvet double breasted dinner jacket in a plummy shade of scarlet over a pair of trim black trousers.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• The series, which takes place in early 1800s London, is narrated by an unseen insider (Julie Andrews provides the deliciously plummy voiceover), whose gossipy reports about high-society scandals the characters read with rapt attention.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
• Grant is equally sublime as her eccentric husband Sir James, the quintessential vaguely absent British toff, batting around inane observations and plummy superlatives while seeming to float above everything from minor mishaps to major disasters.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Schiff’s sense of voicing (creating a hierarchy from among simultaneous multiple musical lines) dovetailed in a gorgeously complex way with the Bösendorfer’s colors – plummy French horns in the middle register, muted trumpets above, tuba below.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018

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