plunger

Example Sentences

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You can’t just burn you house down and walk away, so you grab a plunger.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2025

After breaking the Dalek, the Doctor hands a plunger from his Tardis which marks the "origins of the iconic Dalek arm", the Doctor Who official Twitter page said.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023

There was a joke about a toilet plunger microphone that went by too fast.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“It is dismal,” said Dr. Keith Lurie, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who treated the plunger patient in 1988.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

One: Turn the filling plunger counterclockwise as far as it will go.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg