Definition: 1. A flat, usually round, dish that you put food on. 2. Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten. 3. A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic. 4. A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly.
Use 'plate' in a sentence:
1. Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.
2. Don't touch that plate ─ it's hot!
3. Try the seafood plate.
4. Where do these plates belong?
5. He cut up the meat on his plate.
6. What happens if you interpose a glass plate between two mirrors?
7. They just handed the game to the other team on a plate.
8. I'm beside the plate.
9. Earthquakes are caused by two tectonic plates bumping into each other.
10. The manufacturer's name is on the bottom of the plate.
11. He wiped his plate clean with a piece of bread.
12. Please clean your plate.
13. A brass plate beside the door said 'Dr Alan Tate'.
14. A brass plate beside the door said ‘Dr Alan Tate ’.
15. She slopped some beans onto a plate.
16. 'Try this,' she said, proffering a plate.
17. He piled his plate with as much food as he could.
18. She had a metal plate inserted in her arm.
19. Place a plate over the cake tin and invert it.
20. The waiter whisked away the plates before we had finished.
21. Don't just leave your dirty plates in the sink!
22. The plate broke.
23. The steel plates were riveted together.
24. These plates chip easily.
25. He looked miserably down at his plate.
26. The cutlery is plate, not solid silver.
27. He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate.
28. Don't touch that plate—it's hot!
29. The tanks were mainly constructed of steel plates.
30. She eyed the fish on her plate suspiciously.
31. The plate had a crack in it.
32. The metal plate behind my head radiated heat.
33. The walls of the vault were plated with steel.
34. Jim grabbed a cake from the plate.
35. See plate 4.
36. Mrs. Madrigal heaped more carrots onto Michael's plate.
37. Where do these plates live?
38. The kids had scraped their plates clean.
39. He grated his knife across the plate.
40. She threw a plate at him and only narrowly missed.
41. The cold remains of supper had congealed on the plate.
42. Terreano put a pat of butter on his plate.
43. We have enough on our plate. There is plenty of work to be done on what we have.
44. Anita pushed her plate away; she had eaten virtually nothing.
45. Clean up the plate.
46. Be careful not to drop that plate.
47. Be careful ─ the plates are hot.
48. The book includes 55 colour plates.
49. He piled as much food as he could onto his plate.
50. She heaped my plate with food.
51. She heaped food on my plate.
52. She dropped the plate and it broke into pieces.
53. Visitors see the painting from behind a plate glass window.
