How To Use Plunge In A Sentence
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He slowly depressed the plunger and once the syringe was empty, withdrew the needle and stepped back.
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At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood.
The Education of a Gardener
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A couple of times her footholds cracked and she plunged a few heart-stopping feet, but luckily she grabbed another hold.
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Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion.
Nightside The Long Sun
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Gabrielle had a sudden urge to plunge into the cool lake like before.
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US Treasury markets capitalized on the equity plunge, surging during the afternoon session.
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The muskrat was a very good swimmer, indeed, and as soon as she reached the water she plunged in and swam about, to show Sammie and Susie how it ought to be done.
Sammie and Susie Littletail
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Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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Although peeling isn't essential because this variety has a rather thin skin, it is an easy matter to plunge them into boiling water, drain and then slip off the skins.
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Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
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The unemployment rate plunged sharply.
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So we plunge into its dingy maze with a hopeful and daring sensation of truantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instruments and scores were in scarce supply in a country about to plunge into civil war.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
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He is the lawyer who plunged the Scottish Executive into a compensation crisis by successfully challenging slopping out in prisons.
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She looked towards the Archdeacon and recognised the signs of some one about to take the plunge.
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The two are plunged into a murky world of murder, politics and conspiracies.
Times, Sunday Times
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But consumer confidence has plunged by the biggest amount for two years on fears over tax hikes and Government spending cuts.
The Sun
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A man dressed as an angel jumps through a hole in the ice, into a frozen lake, while taking part in the Polar Plunge at the "Frozen Dead Guy Days" festival in Nederland, Colorado March 10, 2007.
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With that, she took the plunge into the Thames and was soon among her fellow athletes, bobbing along like beads cast into the water.
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Two soccer fans plunged to their deaths after a heavy drinking session.
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Yet a sharp recent retreat in commodity prices, which has seen oil prices plunge some $20 in just three weeks to around $68, suggests the disinflation trend is likely to persist.
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In the U.S. you can get some pretty great decaf from a number of sources: the aforementioned Terroir Coffee for lighter roasts, and for deeply-roasted plunger pot or espresso-style decaf try the Sumatra or any other decaf from Peets (www. peets.com).
Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
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So we can now say about hypotyposes that when they are schematic, they are natural, that is, they are plunged in space and time and in the natural world.
Seeing Is Reading
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For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge.
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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
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On average, we consumed more fruit and less vegetables last year, with the potato seeing the biggest plunge in terms of demand.
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That was until we donned our scuba gear and plunged in.
The Sun
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At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness.
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The light went out, and the room was plunged into darkness.
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She took a deep breath and plunged on with her practiced speech.
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The Balinese tourism industry would be destroyed and the island, now poor but developing, would be plunged into primitive semi-starvation.
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The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head.
The Garden of Allah
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“If America was a person, — and it sat down, — Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.”
Making Light: We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire Nuku Nuku
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Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius.
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He grunted in pain as a bolt from a crossbow tore a gash in his leg, then he plunged into the water and sank.
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The Spanish bank, which has about two-thirds of its loan book in mortgages, earlier today reported a slump in fourth-quarter profit as revenue from lending plunged.
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He ran to the edge of the lake and plunge in.
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Nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief.
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On the other hand, if an oceanic plate made of dense basalt hits a low-density continental plate then the former will plunge underneath, pushing back into the hot, convecting mantle.
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He thinks she means a plunge in the pool instead of a corn-chip dip.
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To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
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He has plunged too many depths to be upset by small set backs or inconveniences.
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This weekend the clocks go back and we will be plunged again into inky afternoons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first shot from the "Conestoga" struck the water a few feet from the "Yankee," and, ricochetting, plunged into her hull.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
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Blue whale of Antarrct has plunged to less than 1% of the original abundance. West Pacific grey whale hovers on the edge of extinction with just over 100 remaining.
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Afraid of a plunge into the canal that claimed the immigrants, I always unsnap my seatbelt and roll the window all the way down, this in broad daylight with no one shooting.
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The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its enormous size.
Les Miserables
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It then had to sell at a loss as the share price plunged.
Times, Sunday Times
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'donga' or watercourse, and into this plunged a rabble of men, white and black, mules, horses, guns, and waggons.
The True Story Book
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The electricity failed and the house was plunged into darkness.
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The plunge in manufacturing is in part the result of a huge global inventory adjustment.
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plunged into civil war after the death of the President.
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The most interesting parts occur when the moon plunges into Earth's full shadow, called the umbra, and of course during the period of totality.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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If using fresh tomatoes, plunge them into boiling water for 30 seconds, then pop in cold water, enabling you to peel the skins away.
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In the latter half of the 1840s, Britain was plunged into deep depression.
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There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.
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Why hasn't he taken the plunge and become naturalized and enabled himself to be in a better position to do something about this by voting?
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Lily pressed the switch and plunged the room into darkness.
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The country was plunged into recession.
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Repeatedly she plunged the knife into his chest.
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Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are plunged in a solution of ammonium chloride A, contained in a glass phial or beaker, which is closed to suppress evaporation.
The Story of Electricity
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Some of our machines were flying higher than the enemy, and plunged headlong to join the engagement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many refugees are using donated clothing to keep their livestock warm as temperatures plunge to near freezing at night.
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It is believed he was under the water for at least two minutes, causing him to take in a lot of water and making his temperature plunge.
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A dog who plunged 40 feet down a cliff on to a beach between Tenby and Saundersfoot is making a good recovery after a rescue mission involving coastguards, lifeboatmen and a vet.
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Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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To support her family, Ratcliffe plunged into a punishing work schedule.
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Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot.
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This plunged him into another severe depression, far worse than what he had before.
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Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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Every time he rose to, or even approached, the heights of success and public esteem, he was suddenly plunged down into the depths of media excoriation.
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Despite the snow and the freezing temperature, a bunch of 20 daring people plunged into the icy waters of Lee Dam yesterday.
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More than 27,000 homes were plunged into darkness by a major power failure.
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What struck me most, after this long passage of time, is what we deem “permissible” on the screen today: We can — with impunity — rape, skewer, torture, vilify, scarify, plunge fangs into carotid arteries, sodomize…women can reveal frontal nudity within a half-inch of genitalia; men can stand frontally nude with only a hand cupped over the thingy…but only frontal.
Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts…
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The prime minister pressed the panic button yesterday as Britain's economy plunged deeper into crisis.
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The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
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He plunges his hands under the faucet, splashing water over his face.
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Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
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Few people would have taken the plunge to read it at all had they not been reassured that it would not be overly upsetting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He braced himself for the icy plunge into the black water.
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Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
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Bring the water to the boil and plunge the vegetables in.
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As for the likelihood of a plunge off yet another fiscal cliff, a more realistic appraisal is that this is unlikely.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one I drank while bathrobed and slippered in my front yard, holding the plunger that had been arbitrarily left standing beside my mail box overnight.
Yard Sailing
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Most NEOs will plunge into the Sun after a million years of this pas de deux.
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What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove?
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The electricity failed and the house was plunged into darkness.
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The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans.
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IF all of a sudden this morning you find your world plunged into darkness and gloom, do not fear.
The Sun
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The fall in demand caused share prices to plunge.
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The sky diver had a plunge of more than 10 , 000 feet before his parachute opened.
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The dollar has risen 30 percent since its plunge to a postwar low of 79. 75 yen last April.
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Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot.
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As for his would-be assassin, the Tories took turns yesterday to plunge the knife into Mr Lamont.
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At least 50 people died when a bus plunged into a river.
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And the local economy in Sucumbios is suffering. Since August, retail sales, tourism and tax collection have all plunged.
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After he went deep down the sideline and outraced Rogers for a 36-yard reception, he plunged over the middle for a six-yard catch on third-and-four.
Cruz Gets the Last Dance
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Yet despite a third-act plunge into compromised stodge (which is unsurprising considering its star names), there's some surprisingly edgy humour at work in this darker-than-expected comedy from German-born writer-director Derrick Borte.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
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The plunge of the rand against the dollar and the pound is going to worsen.
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I think she has always "hankered" to know us, but not having enough individuality to act for herself, she has waited for a lead before taking the plunge.
The Lady of the Basement Flat
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BRITAIN'S biggest pawnbroker has ousted its chief executive after blaming the plunge in the gold price for a sudden drop in profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a crack of sharp thunder as the bullets plunged from their silver caves, and a shower of shells fell to the ground simultaneously.
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The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Plunge the pasta into boiling water.
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Through Tom Tom's eyes we experience the plunge from the roof and his slow-motion passage past the windows on each floor.
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U.S. distillate inventories plunged 6 million barrels last week, according to the most recent data from the Department of Energy.
Crude Tops $98 on Euro Zone, Supply Concerns
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Conclusion: High-frequency ultrasound is without harm and has high efficiency, it is an important method for the diagnosis of plunge ranula.
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They plunge into the coastal waters from small boats.
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We plunge into the jungle to assist the research team in search of snakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fine if you're just nipping in for a wazz; but anyone who comes in, drops their trousers and sits on the bog will be plunged into darkness before they've finished.
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Men have been lost in the glen in mists so thick that they could plunge their fingers out of sight in it as into a meal girnel; but this mist never came within twenty yards of me.
The Little Minister
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As he stood there defenseless, the sailor was about to plunge his cutlass into him for the last time.
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plunged straightway to the rocks below
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Plunge in and head for the fire tower.
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He gritted his teeth and plunged into the cold sea.
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Get rid of the water in the tank by flushing, then bail out the water that is in the bowl using a plunger to force the rest of the water into the bowl, then mop it up with sponges.
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At the outset she zips through the social niceties and plunges into a concentrated burst of questions and note-taking.
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$2.39 billion to $12.85 billion during the week when the main American indices plunged more than five per cent as the escalating Greece debt crisis rattled the global markets during the week.
The Times of India
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If a plant is rated as hardy to zone 2 we know how low a temperature plunge that plant is likely to survive.
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He took the narrow bridge too quickly and the car crashed through the bridge and plunged into Poucha Pond, landing upside down under the water.
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After fluttering thus from branch to branch, like the poor birdling that cannot take its flight, discouraged by his wretched attempts at life, he plunged straight before him, hoping for nothing but a turn of luck, driving over the roads and fields, lending a hand to the farmers, sleeping in stables and garrets, or oftener in the open air; sometimes charitably sheltered in a kind man's barn, and perhaps -- oh bliss!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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She took a standard coffee pot and put a perforated cylinder - similar to a sieve - in the middle, into which she put a plunger on a screw thread.
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The ceaselessness of the _Volpe_'s pitch and plunge wore at him: unable to find even an hour's respite to recover his energies, Matteo could keep nothing down, found it impossible to maintain his balance, and felt the ship's unnatural motions -- irreconcilable with any human cycle -- begin to ravage him.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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But Victorians, who are the yo-yo team of senior hockey, again plunge back to Section Two hockey next season.
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The lorry smashed through a brick wall and plunged into the fast-flowing canal, landing on its side.
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Skirt the breeding colony of common terns that plunge-dive in the surf, and head out across the sands towards the lime kilns at Beadnell harbour, where you can catch the bus back to Seahouses.
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As it headed into a tree-covered hill in which a stone-edged tunnel mouth was set it gave a realistic wail and plunged out of sight.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom.
Dater Archives
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He hesitated, surprised by her words, but plunged ahead.
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Not that he is jumping at joy at the recent plunge in our growth rate from 11% to near zero.
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An amateur flyer had an amazing escape when his microlight aircraft hit a power cable and plunged into a field.
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The next morning, after the wedding ceremony, the toad told his bride to plunge a knife into his back.
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Some of our machines were flying higher than the enemy, and plunged headlong to join the engagement.
Times, Sunday Times
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He plunged head first into the stream.
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The rope broke, and the elevator plunged down to the ground.
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He plunged head first into the stream.
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No wonder the meeting was plunged into chaos.
The Sun
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He plunged the knife deep into her heart.
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The country, they say, will inevitably now plunge headlong into decadence.
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Plunger pump in the steering system bring fluid pulsation, there out pressure pulsation in subsequence system.
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The city centre was plunged into darkness by the power cut.
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If you have been thinking about buying shares, now could be the time to take the plunge.
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At any time, they could plunge to political disaster.
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Each villa has a plunge pool and sundeck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tim. 6:9 But those who intend to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
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Dairy farmers warn it will plunge milk below cost price and put many out of business.
The Sun
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Motor rallying Three spectators were killed when a car taking part in a local rally plunged into the crowd in central Serbia yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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They wanted to wheel and deal, and they soon plunged Enron into businesses it knew nothing about: selling water in Europe; "wheeling" electric power into, and mostly out of, California; installing commercial air-conditioning systems; the Blockbuster deal; and, of course, the Internet.
Books About Schnooks
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Then canoe and bateau answered to the swift current of the Mackenzie, and they plunged into the Great Barren Ground.
In a Far Country
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He moved to plunge the dagger in but the weapon was wretched from his grip by a powerful hand as the other gripped his wrist and tore it away.
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The couple lived in apartments for 30 years before taking the real estate plunge, buying a 1939 saltbox that they remade as their own.
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Now they've taken a plunge into the dive computer market and the outcome is the DataMax Sport.
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You might be more inclined towards a cooler plunge after a day's walking.
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The Houthoop Guest Farm is charmingly rustic cabins, aviaries, a giant plunge pool and a beautifully boho dining room and bar built by Veronica Van Dyk and her husband.
South Africa beyond the World Cup: the remote west coast
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The prime minister would, it is said, have taken the plunge had it not been for the bloody-minded insistence of his chancellor in sticking to the Treasury's five tests.
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It has already plunged by 14% against the dollar since the referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ship was plunged into total darkness as the engines drained power from everything except themselves and life support.
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At that time, Klein acknowledged he's hoping the new show helps shore up ratings for the network's flagship "Larry King Live" -- its ratings had plunged by 40 percent in 2010.
CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein out, HLN topper Ken Jautz in
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She then dug around in it until she found a medical box and brought out a needle with a plunger, filling it with anesthetic.
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A knife was stuck in his back, plunged so deeply only the scrimshaw handle could be seen.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish.
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He experienced the worst plunge into unpopularity of any President of the Fifth Republic in his first year of office.
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Rational Review
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The maid plunged the cloth into the pail and cleaned the floor.
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I decided to take the plunge, but waited another fortnight before I mailed the letter.
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He slaps some sticky tape over the opening to seal it, takes a deep breath, then plunges it into a bowl of cold water.
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R 2 is the point of signal transfer between plunger and barrel.
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The homeowners side, again due to higher premiums, reported a plunge in the deficit from ￡34.5m to only ￡1.3m.
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John felt refreshed after a quick plunge in the lake.
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They find themselves plunged into a world they cannot control under the guardianship of a wicked relative.
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After landing on a stretch of white beach, we plunged into the forest along a well-cleared path, which made me wonder how many hunters use this area.
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A driver died when his tanker plunged 60 ft from a motorway bridge and exploded into a massive fireball.
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At the other end of the valley, a rainbow made of painted rebar rises and then plunges into the land.
Smithsonian
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the stock market plunged
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He sank the plunger slowly, allowing several drops of liquid to dribble from the needle.
DO NO HARM
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They were suddenly plunged into darkness as the train went through a tunnel.
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The ca'canny has dealt a paralysing blow to the economy and plunged the export industry into crisis.
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What the schoolgirl does not wear is too bright-coloured, the hair is long should plunge into rise, appear a few more spell able.
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The shallow polyhalite potash deposit in Sichuan are distributed in the north plunge top of Huayingshan anticline where is anhydrock of earlier Mesozoic Triassic period.
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Since the start of the year, 80 companies have taken the plunge to swim alongside similar aspirants on the so-called junior market.
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NIAGARA FALLS, ONT (WIVB) - Very few have taken a death defying plunge over the Niagara and lived to tell about it.
WIVB TV
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He ran to the edge of the lake and plunge in.
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Once the demand for oil is replaced by a demand for another commodity, the current land value of Saudi Arabia may plunge to nearly zero.
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The nine-centimetre Orion refractors are best-suited for viewing the moon, but there's something to be said for being able to do it from the comfort of your plunge pool.
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Brenda found out more about it and eventually took the plunge to take it up herself.
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She plunged a dipper into it and began to ladle creamy milk into the pail.
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After initial shyness and plenty of cajoling by the visitors who plunged into the crowd, a few volunteered to go on stage and learnt to swing like the natives of the island.
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Plans for the 40,000 square-foot zone include a beachside wave pool, a wild water river, two splash flumes, a lazy river ride and spa and plunge pools.
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A strike would plunge the country into chaos.
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Already depressed about his marriage, the whispers and false rumours saw Temple plunge into despair, and ultimately suicide.
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The density of blocks can be determined by means of a pocket penetrometer, which measures the resistance to penetration of a plunger for a fixed depth of penetration, and comparing it to a predetermined threshold of acceptability.
Chapter 4
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His parents tolerate the sudden plunge into secularism with helpless concern.
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As the three heretics walked to the gibbet, some young boys plunged sharp sticks through the cracks in the walkway.
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Secondly, it could plunge the country into another round of internecine fighting and, thirdly, it could put the US at odds with the UN.
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The mate, who acted as boat-steerer, now came to his proper place in the stern, where he guided the boat by an oar passed through a ring called a grummet, while the headsman, who had before been steering, took his place in the bow, armed with several lances, ready to plunge into the body of the whale the instant it again appeared.
The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific
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He plunged into the cold water.
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The lineations plunge to the north in the northern part of the island and to the south in the southeastern part.
