How to Use plug in a Sentence

plug

1 of 2 noun

• Fans behind the Cowboys bench kept pulling the plug to the heaters.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• The college has a week to decide whether to roll the dice or pull the plug.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 29 Mar. 2023
• But by the second half of that second start, the Colts were ready to pull the plug.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2024
• The kids are also now angry at me for pulling the plug.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Just place the soil plug into the planting block and add your seeds.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
• Because, five years ago, I was left for dead, told to pull out the plug.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
• Now, nearly a decade later, Jeep is once again pulling the plug on the Cherokee.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 15 Aug. 2023
• Enlarge / Rows 25 and 26 in the Boeing plane that lost a door plug during flight.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• The plugs are supposed to be held in place by secure bolts and stop fittings.
  — Stephen Stock, Amy Corral, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The sleek aluminum case has a loop for attaching it to a keyring and a slider to push out the USB-A plug.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Though the inn supplies ear plugs, I was never tempted to reach for them.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The jet that lost the door plug had just entered service in November.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The plastic cover slides to protect the USB-A plug, and there's a handy opening for a lanyard.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• Their stars burned bright until the plug was pulled in 2012, seemingly for good.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• An Alaska Airlines flight had a door plug blow out that day, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• But the company officially pulled the plug on the project in 2018, and in the age of ChatGPT, the project sounds quaint.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Good songs get beaten to death, and bad songs are impossible to pull the plug on.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• The nightstands are also equipped with USB plugs for easy charging.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• And as ice starts to melt (days later), the Roadie easily drains with a simple pull of the plug.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2023
• To wit, even Dong’s link in her bio includes a plug for Domino’s Pizza.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• The pieces were shaped like giant sink plugs and painted bright yellow.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The plastic cover slides shut to protect the USB-A plug, and there’s an opening for a lanyard or keyring.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• In fact, pull the plug on romance altogether for a while.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• That’s the part — known as the door plug — that blew off on Flight 1282 when the plane’s interior was pressurized.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• The cooler doesn’t have a drain plug, so pouring water out might be a hassle.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 26 July 2023
• Sales were down, and company founder Phil Knight was ready to pull the plug on the entire division.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Mar. 2023
• Double-the-pleasure rabbit vibes are on sale too, and butt plugs galore.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 12 July 2023
• But Take Note: The water table has only one drain plug, and the mailbox is lacking a back.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• The old slide said the agency would remove all of the slough plugs between the Black River and tributary channels and sloughs.
  — Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• The other, the Bolt, could go 238 miles on nothing but electricity, but would then need to be recharged at a plug.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023

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plug

2 of 2 verb

• He plugged him right in the chest.
• We were able to plug the hole with cement.
• One of the DJs on the local radio station has been plugging the band's new album.
• Simply plug it in, open the stand on the back, and push the big button on the front.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• Electric pumps need to be plugged into the wall to work.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• Super simple to use: just set it on the floor, plug it in, and point it at a wall.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• All that owners will have to do is plug their car in, and Polestar’s VPP tech will take care of the rest.
  — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• On game day, tote it to the game, plug it in, and let your crowd build their own sandwiches.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2023
• In local news, these gaps are the most relevant to plug first.
  — Subramaniam Vincent, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• In his later years, Mr. Lear did his best to plug into the zeitgeist.
  — Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Setup could not be faster at just over two minutes—just pull the light out of the box, take the plastic off, and plug it in.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
• The electric grid upgrades and equipment needed to plug them in aren’t.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 16 July 2023
• Just plug it into the back of your TV and use the remote to scroll through a variety of streaming apps.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Voice will expand to two hours on Tuesdays to plug that hole, with the first hour being a recap of the Monday show.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• We’re plugged into the finesse of Knox’s plan, the brain power that put it together.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• Most hand mixers come with a cord to plug into the wall, but not this cordless option from KitchenAid.
  — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• All that was needed to get it to working order was to place the leg on the base and plug it in, a process that was straightforward once out of the box.
  — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Padres could plug that hole until the trade deadline in hopes of picking up a corner-outfield bat.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• For plugging the holes in history the pamphlet is the ideal form.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• It can be set up in just one step by plugging into any AC outlet.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• The actors and writers strikes have meant that the cast isn’t available to plug the film on late night shows or in magazine pieces.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The buses are pre-warmed while still plugged into the grid and stay warm running on battery power.
  — Dan Gunderson, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
• Luckily, the fix is simple: Unplug the Echo, wait 30 seconds, then plug it back in.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• The major arteries that supply the heart with blood and oxygen get plugged up with a clot, causing a block in flow.
  — Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Simply plug the unit into any standard outlet and turn it on to pair with your router.
  — Tim Chan, Variety, 29 May 2023
• What Could Be Better It must be plugged into an outlet.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
• This could help plug the gap between what renters can pay and what landlords are asking — at least in the short term, Fenton said.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• As such, the Bon Voyage could be plugged into a battery and operate off-grid.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
• If the construction of this keyboard is the same as the last, expect both of these accessories to be wired and to plug into the top of the keyboard via 3.5mm jacks.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2024
• To make matters worse, and better, the hostile host’s girlfriend, who was on the desk plugging calls through, also switched teams.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024