Alex Honnold

Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.

American Athlete

Jack Horner

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

American Scientist

Alessandra Mussolini

Acting was not for me. They were saying, you are too beautiful, you are too ugly, you are too plump, too tall, too short. You cannot believe the way you are judged.

Italian Politician

Iris Apfel

I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.

American Businesswoman

Kiku Sharda

I fit well in the comedy zone. A plump and chubby figure goes well with most onscreen characters... it adds more value to what I say.

Indian Comedian

Isabel Yosito

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

American Artist

Miranda Hart

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

English Actress

Divya Dutta

When I joined films, I was a bit plump but then I lost a lot of weight.

Indian Actress

Sophie Dahl

In my family, we were all rather plump as teenagers.

English Model

Boyle Roche

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

Irish Politician

Plump often suggests something is pleasantly full and healthy, not just overweight.

Positive Connotation

'Plump' isn't only for living things. It can describe anything round and full.

Describing Objects

Used figuratively, 'plump' can mean well off or sufficient.

Figurative Use

As a verb, 'plump' emphasizes the suddenness of the action.

Sudden Action

When used as a verb, 'plump' can imply a heavy sound upon impact.

Sound Implication

Using 'plump' this way shows someone is likely very tired or relieved.

Exhaustion Context

This use of 'plump' is informal and suggests casual or carefree behavior.

Informal Feeling

Here 'plump' indicates making a clear and firm decision.

Decisiveness

It's used when a decision is made after a period of indecision.

Culmination Point

 But they're absolutely gorgeous birds. Those babies are absolutely adorable in order to plump themselves up and put on all that weight. The Cubs will drink up to two and a half litres of that super high fat milk every single day. Now, although all these seals probably look the same to you, and especially the pups.

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 when you're a spider male and you're out there trying to get a female it's the same struggle that he's having that we're all having when we're trying to find the love of our lives in a single nest in the middle well protected is the single queen a big plump slightly green and so it's the same story throughout

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 Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends, and the window for pregnancy closes for that month. Meanwhile, the now empty follicle begins to release progesterone, another hormone that tells the womb's lining to plump up with blood and nutrients in preparation for a fertilized egg that may embed there and grow.

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 kind of this black ash that was has drawn everywhere and on top of it was sitting tons of acorns and they were all beautiful and they were like big and plump and none of them had any holes in them and the thing that frank said was well they don't have holes in them is because

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 No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly -- the good and the bad -- my own follies and weakness that even this counterfeit Venus with her sham heat, and her bosom probably plumped

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 In many cases, it may simply be that culinary visionaries from different cultures shared a similar that cooking fillings encased in dough would be delightful. Either way, we can appreciate these plump pockets of perfection—

A brief history of...

 that chunky physique isn't due to overindulgence in an unhealthy lifestyle it is in fact you to a thick layer of blubber which keeps the animals warm in the frigid sea these plump pinnipeds haul themselves

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 recognizable tadpole it's ready to hatch and drop into the water but there are fish just waiting for a plump delicious helpless tadpole talk about fate the possibility of being gobbled by a vine

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 microscopic world of the tiny creatures that inhabit our everyday lives there's nothing like collapsing into a freshly made bed at the end of a long hard day crisp sheets plump pillows a

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 back a lot more water whilst we haven't copied beaver dam building human engineers have plumped for some of the same solutions