plunger

One playworker noticed a child standing on a manhole with a plunger and watched quietly to make sure he didn’t throw the object.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In my mind, a fire extinguisher often gets put into the same “essentials” bucket as a plunger for your house: You should probably buy one before you need it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Simmons compares the effect to pulling back the plunger on a sealed syringe filled with water.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026

The plunger of the syringe attached to the needle would be pulled back and, hopefully, urine quickly accumulated.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025

Nels, flailing, his breath issuing forth in vaporous grunts, had broken out the ice with the handle of his toilet plunger, propped himself against the wall—his lumbago plagued him mercilessly—and dribbled night water unsteadily.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Cold plungers tend to speak in the evangelical tone of the convert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Housebound plungers deprived of access to movies, live sports and other forms of collective entertainment played at investing in meme stocks such as GameStop and dogecoins and other weird cryptocurrencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers next to all of the beds in the coronary unit.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Blue Cube’s offerings include a $15,999 Mini-Me cold plunge designed for home use and a $26,999 Malibu 56 model that can handle multiple plungers per day in a spa environment.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

My feet swell big and heavy like plungers, but I drag them across the linoleum floor straight center where Uncle wants to show off the new dance we learned.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros