The effect was to plug the hole with the same material taken from it.

Years of plugging, with just enough progress to keep him at it.

And don't tell me you're going to plug them all with silver bullets.

You plug the corpse with a brick and move on.

She un- plugged the phone with a sense of relief.

His ears were plugged, probably with blood, and he could barely hear what she said.

Or how many holes I had to try to plug with too few resources.

How do you plug six holes at once with just two hands?

If the pipe gets any larger, you have to plug it with a disk of some kind.

After a few moments I realized that my ears had been plugged with something.