Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plunging
IPA transcription: [pl'ʌndʒɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • He felt himself plunging headlong down, down, and down to inky depths unguessable.
  • She sat beside her son and fed him in the conventional way, by plunging her bill down his open mouth.
  • When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night.
  • As he came plunging back to the stalled wagon, suddenly his foot slumped into the yielding sawdust and he fell upon his face.
  • He glanced over the brink. The sheer face of the scarp fell away beneath them, plunging down to the tiny trees and rocks below.
  • His timing was perfect; his back- flung hands struck the table and hurled it aside, plunging the cave into darkness as the candle toppled and went out.
  • The taunt came from somewhere in front of him, but Kane, plunging toward the sound with the savage fury of baffled wrath, caromed against a blank wall that did not yield to his blow.
  • The railway track wound in and out among the passes, now approaching the mountain-sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding abrupt angles by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles, which seemed to have no outlet.
  • He made a strange gesture of appeal towards the remote glass roof of the public way, then turned and went plunging recklessly from one moving platform to another, and vanished amidst the swarms of people going to and fro thereon.
  • With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round-shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest.