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UK
/dˈʌŋk/
]
[ US /ˈdəŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈdəŋk/ ]
VERB
-
dip into a liquid while eating
She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce -
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
dip the garment into the cleaning solution
dip the brush into the paint -
make a dunk shot, in basketball
He dunked the ball
NOUN
- a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
How To Use dunk In A Sentence
- She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy. What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
- Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
- If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee. The Prairie Mother
- So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker. In the Time of Bobby Cox
- The place was Podunk City, a pimple of yawns on a bare white butt.
- As far as anyone knows, prior to this season, there had been five dunks in the history of women's college basketball.
- Gasol showed more aggressiveness from the start on offense, pushing the ball to the basket against rookie Andreas Glyniadakis, at one point beating him off the dribble from the foul line for a dunk. USATODAY.com - Basketball - Seattle vs. Memphis
- When he dunks the ball, he rises obscenely high, rotates his arms in the air as if doing one of those over-the-head medicine ball exercises, and then unleashes upon the basket.
- She dunked a piece white cloth in the dye.
- I promptly filled the sink with water and dunked my head in, letting my ebony locks flop messily to the sides of my face.