How to Use plummy in a Sentence

plummy

adjective
  • All in all, the film looks like a lot of fun, with plummy British accents to boot.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • The plummy tone is almost my lip color, but so much prettier.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 June 2022
  • Oh, certainly, the plummy voice on the other end says, that’s no trouble at all.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This basic Beaujolais is fresh, pure and plummy, with a touch of licorice.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The Zuccardi was dark and plummy, with an aromatic note of leafiness.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The orchestra has entered the sports arena before, or at least made plummy noises at the sidelines.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • This set is especially stunning in a rich, plummy red shade and a cat-eye finish, with gold decals for extra shimmer.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Watson himself speaks in the plummy tones of a broadcast announcer or audiobook narrator.
    — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Rocking smoky eyes or plummy lips (if not both), the Emmy nominees proved that getting sultry on the red carpet is an absolute must.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Lightly chilled, this bright, plummy red from Piedmont is mouthwatering and juicy yet structured enough to stand up to pizza or barbecue.
    — Anna Lee Iijima, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • The shade lineup spans 10 options, ranging from pale lilac to rosy pink to plummy burgundy, all inspired by NYC sunsets.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our florist Lex Hamilton arranged gothic black calla lilies and plummy hydrangeas to festoon the fireplace, and piled up stainless steel coupes loaded with shiny cherries beside flickering pillar candles.
    — Katherine Ormerod, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2024
  • These days, clusters of plummy Concords, oval autumn royals and dusky kyohos are decorating dinner tables, doubling as cornucopian decorations and low-effort snacks.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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