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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024