The water came in more quickly now, creeping up the plimsoll marks painted fore and aft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

They seek to heap more and more on a ship that is already dangerously below the plimsoll.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

The foot was wearing a plimsoll, which explained why Rebus hadn't heard his attacker following him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

Inspired by the Feiyue collabo description, I told my friend that the hansome African-American fellow across the way looked like a "cool coulered plimsoll.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morning After: Surveying the Damage] Reference

Within a year, it smells like a dog-chewed plimsoll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

The classic canvas plimsoll has firmly regained its footing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles] Reference

The competition brought together the seven regional champions of plimsoll pong, aged between seven and 15.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It's true that the plimsoll went out of fashion for a few years, but they are now retro and therefore stylish again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

A new brand of trainer, dubbed the 'period plimsoll', has been developed to accommodate the changing shape of a woman's foot according to her hormonal balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Everybody needs some sort of comfortable shoe for travelling and if you can't abide trainers, then a plimsoll, with or without laces, shaped like a ballet pump or an espadrille, might be just the thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

In his eighties and nineties, my grandfather wrote a memoir which is perfect to draw on for material because it's not a sophisticated narrative, but is freighted with all the wonderful solid detail e.g. losing his plimsoll in the wreck, the canned fruit, the bonded store that writers are greedy for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

Her plimsoll fell off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Faulkner - life, spirituality, everything] Reference