How to Use plenitude in a Sentence

plenitude

noun
  • She has gathered a plenitude of information on the topic.
  • No sense of plenitude or peace.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And in the amorphous plenitude beyond the deal lies the free.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • No drums like them, with such a plenitude of notes, were then in existence.
    — Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In that age of plenitude and expansiveness, the steak house was born.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The clients often have a plenitude of bedrooms or bunks and boast of their large families.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In easier parts of the world, such plenitude would bring with it an equal concentration of tourists.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2018
  • His prose is a pageant of wonder, expressing plenitude, not poverty.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • And Marius was born at a time of giraffe plenitude in Europe.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • As full as some of us are from both, the chef’s additions to the plenitude are appreciated.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Thus with a trans-temporal jump do the pathologies of one time destroy the plenitude of another.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
  • There, safari was through open grasslands that delivered a plenitude of clear sightings.
    — Lini S. Kadaba, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The sheer plenitude of options can often feel overwhelming to consumers.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The film’s plenitude shows how people subsist alongside the irresistible rise of media fascism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But this new fullness—a plenitude that’s spiritual as well as physical—didn’t feel like a reason to complain.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • The sheer plenitude of research material is what makes the place so special to someone like her , but also overwhelming.
    — Matthew Segal, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 June 2017
  • If not, a bargain can be struck between giver and gifted, allowing anxieties about unearned plenitude to be assuaged.
    — Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Metaphorically speaking, books are always taking us to the big city, opening our eyes to the world’s plenitude and diversity.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • At times this plenitude threatens to make Wagnerism read like an encyclopedia.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Sixteen cubits at the southern border was considered the ideal river depth for the plenitude (one cubit being around the length of a man’s forearm).
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • With blue crab season underway, along with a plenitude of native fish and shrimp coming to shore each morning, restaurants fill their menus with whatever is brought to the marina.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
  • There’s obviously a very religious origin to the principle of plenitude.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2018
  • To walk around this botanical marvel, watching the mangoes change in shape and size on the branches every few yards, was to experience creation in all its mystery and plenitude.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • After all, Plymouth’s own governor, William Bradford, noted a plenitude of wild turkeys in the colony at that time.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Simple and delicious while honoring the beauty of the Copper River, its people and its plenitude.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
  • Mid-pandemic, heads are rolling—scrolling—at unprecedented rates through the virtual plenitude, a kind of pre-death bardo state of perfect mind-body disconnection.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
  • He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in the waters near his home and, even more lucrative, the seals that showed up to hunt them.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The domain of temple priests, Nilometers were used to decide when to announce the plenitude and what tax levels to set for the harvest, so that the wealth of the flood could be distributed upwards.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In this era of plenitude and choice and disruptive technology, what is permissible, what is forbidden and what is flouting the letter of religious law?
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Baranski, too, experienced a plenitude of milestone moments while playing her signature role.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022

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