plunk

Example Sentences

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Plenty of you who regularly plunk down thousands for a business-class seat care about just one thing, of course: horizontal sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Instead, Roberts watched Hudson plunk slumping Yankees star Aaron Judge, give up a long single off the wall to Jazz Chisholm Jr., then walk Giancarlo Stanton to load the bases.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

That doleful mood pervades these interpretations: a sadly beautiful tone; an emotional climax that evaporates rather than reaching a resolution; a heartbreakingly simple plunk of high keys.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Then far below, as if the stone had fallen into deep water in some cavernous place, there came a plunk, very distant, but magnified and repeated in the hollow shaft.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien