39 Verbs to Use for the Word plunges

I have just returned from taking a plunge in company with many other distinguished persons.

The trap was open, and the huge cavity gaped before them; there was no barrier, nothing to warn them and prevent them from making a fearful plunge.

In my surprise I let the tiller slip and the cutter gave a great plunge as she came sharply into the wind and flung us all together in a heap on the bottom.

We pushed our boat back towards the open water, when we heard the plunge of some animal into the lake, on the other side of the island.

If behind the bushes which bordered the stream, he saw the knife plunge, it should signify success; if not, he would take it as an omen of failure.

At that roar of sound, vague as the beat of waves along the shore, the stallion lurched down on all fours and leaped ahead, but the two on the halter ropes drove all their weight backward and checked the first plunge.

"Expecting a plunge from my horse, I stuck my spurs into his sides, and pushed him forward into the yard; but what was my surprise to find him enter the yard as quietly as a cow that had just gone in before him.

She refused to budge, funked the plunge, submitting to unending blows, and words which were almost worse than blows.

Sir Eustace greets them as they approach, plunges at once into monologue, and relates (with occasional warnings from the doctor against over-excitement) the sad story of his misfortunes and consequent loss of reason.

On the 4th Byron made, when violently heated, an imprudent plunge in the sea, and was never afterwards free from a pain in his bones.

There is ever to be feared the lurking German patrol that trains its dozen rifles upon the driver, knowing full well that he must sit and quietly face it out, or the lorry, once out of control, plunges against a tree and becomes, with both its drivers, the prey of these marauders.

For one reckless moment he meditated a plunge into that perfect candor which may be either the wisest or the most foolish thing a man may do in all his life.

I need rest, just plain existencea plunge into sweet nothingness, where I can forget everything; and I gratefully accept your friendship.

here, after having performed sacrificial rites of the Saraswata king, and making use of the sacrificial stake for their pestle, the highest order of saints performed the holy plunge prescribed at the end of a sacred ceremony.

Each man pictured the scene according to his naturethe sleeping men, the plunge of the knives, and the sudden death in the dark.

THE FIRST CHAIN OP PONDSSHOOTING BY TURNSSHEEP WASHINGA PLUNGE AND A DIVEA ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.

Miss E. had posted herself at an open window, watching this strange scene, and while thus employed, was startled by hearing a piercing scream, and a plunge into the water; at the same moment, the clamour on shore became excessive.

They had travelled a good deal together during the one idle year that had preceded Gilbert's sudden plunge into commerce.

I shall pull up again presentlybefore the final plunge.

He was almost inclined to regret his plunge from the lumbering freight train.

He was remembering the frightful, dizzying plunge down the black pit into the steaming waters of the River of Nightwaters which, had they been but a few degrees hotter, would incontinently have ended everything on the instant.

The Papagaio is known both at the source and the mouth; to descend it did not represent a plunge into the unknown, as in the case of the Duvida or the Ananas; but the actual water work, over the part that was unexplored, offered the same possibilities of mischance and disaster.

It is this book which Heine had in mind when he ridiculed Tieck's "silly plunge into medieval naïveté."

Instead of keeping along in a direct line the biplane had uptilted and was now shooting downward in what seemed a terribly perilous way; just as though the pair of precious scoundrels had taken a notion to end the pursuit by seeking a plunge into the water.

The kingfisher plumps bodily down on the minnow from an overhanging perch; the solan goose, soaring, plunges from a "pernicious height"; the heron, high on its stilts, darts out a long and serpentine neck; the diver, with similar beak and neck, but different legs, pursues the fleeing shoals under water; to the swift and slippery fish all are alike terrible in their certainty.

39 Verbs to Use for the Word  plunges