How To Use Plunk In A Sentence
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Between songs he crouches and we can all hear the plunk plunk of strings being tuned.
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Instead, we get the "kerplunk" scene we knew we were getting from the end of last issue, Luthor revealing that he's actually kind of a bastard after all, members of Infinity II declaring twice in two pages that it sure is a good thing they still have their powers, and a lost-in-space scene that once again fails to advance that plot.
Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals
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He plunked himself down on a coach.
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At the very least you know that GRRM will be there and if you ply him with drinks and plunk his magic twanger, you just might be able to wrestle some info out of him.
Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle
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They picked the number out of their ass, knowing they'd need to 'backpedal' later … but 'later' is too late for the suckers who plunked their cash down, isn't it?]
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas
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Then get him a ride home, or failing that, plunk him on the nearest sofa.
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Are audiences so undiscriminating that they will plunk down $9 to see something this creatively bankrupt?
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Die-hard fans will have no problem plunking down their hard-earned dough.
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While he was talking about the forthcoming centenaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme, Sean Brady's words also have significance for the era of Plunkett: I am asking that we be sensitive and sensible about how we conduct these commemorations.
Our pasts and the Permanent Things
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Please ensure your china is at room temperature first – do not bring it in directly from a cold car in winter and plunk it into warm water.
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We plunked quarter after quarter into a pool table as we spied on our masculine counterparts.
Myrtle Beach Daze
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The bad blood and beanballs continued after Tino Martinez got plunked Tuesday.
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The pride of New Orleans and a visionistical down-home cat and hellified piano plunker to boot.
Dusty Wright's Culture Catch - Smart, Pop Culture Podcasts & Written Reviews - Arts & Entertainment
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He plunked the package down on the desk.
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It's her hometown, but she's as lost as if she'd been plunked down in the middle of a rainforest.
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She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
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Rudy laughed, plunking his beer glass on the bar.
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You are seeing some time laps of tinker-toy-type construction that goes on up there, as they use the robot arms to just kind of plunk it right on.
CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008
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Father brought home an old harpsichord, and we even tried to teach ourselves how to play, sitting side by side in the parlor, my right hand and his left hand, plunking away at the keys.
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O'BRIEN: ... as opposed to sort of the spokesperson who's kind of plunked in the middle of it all.
CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2006
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The statistics don't reflect, for instance, how many times pitchers plunk batters with changeups, curveballs or other off-speed pitches, or how much effort a hitter makes to get out of the way.
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I plunk along, hitting so many strident notes that it sounds like I tried to compose the piece myself.
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Aficionados all share a certain fondness for the transporter, the device that allowed the intrepid crew of the Enterprise to plunk down on various planets without benefit of spacecraft.
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No one's forcing anyone to buy skybox seats, tune in to Monday Night Football or plunk down a Ben Franklin for that replica jersey.
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At 18, she plunked down the money she'd been saving for years to buy a train ticket to Manhattan and leave her cow town behind.
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The gullible sucker actually plunks down money for an ‘outfit’ of software and seed emails.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We ` re going to put the (INAUDIBLE) you plunker (ph)!
CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2006
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I always liked to plunker with stuff: tearing up clocks and putting them back together.
Oral History Interview with Johnnie Jones, August 27, 1976. Interview H-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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All of a sudden, I heard someone coming into the room just as I was plunking down my drink on my shelf.
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She would have had to appear in person to sign the application and plunk down fifty dollars.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Oh, and I found out from the Vancouver crew that 'wearing shoes' while racing isn't like 'racing' - oh well, plunky old amateur me, not having bare feet just because I can.
Times Colonist 10K 2009: why I should race
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She would have had to appear in person to sign the application and plunk down fifty dollars.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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And cash it was made, thirty PLUNKS (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and
Local Colour
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“We starve if we wait for that,” Bolivar said, plunking a potful of sowbelly and beans down on the rough table.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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Liam Plunkett came into the attack for Woakes and in his first over Dhawan, still trying to get the measure of the change in pace, heaved at a short delivery and was caught down the legside by Steve Davies, the keeper diving to his right.
County cricket – as it happened!
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One thing that's very different for Johnson this season is that he's standing further off the plate, with one of the results being that he's yet to get hit by a pitch after being plunked 12 times last year.
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Why don't you plunk yourself down with a good book?
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Next thing I knew I was plunked a millimetre above the elbow.
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Use a table knife to scoop and press dough into ¼ cup measuring scoops, and plunk the mounds onto the prepared cookie sheets.
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When she was four she sat down at the family piano and plunked out a shockingly respectable rendition of ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.’
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Their veteran is closing in on 3,000 safeties, while setting a painful record for most times being plunked by a pitch
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I plunked down my cash, all the while admiring the plant with its white flowers so much like the heads of a gaggle of nodding geese.
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A pair of plunky environmentalists are out in the Pacific Ocean right now on a raft made out of junk and they're heading from California to Hawaii.
CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008
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A Saw type figure, played by Tyler Perry as Madea in a horrific Richard Nixon mask, taunts the survivors with his eerie song "kerplunk kerplunk, marbles on your head, I pull out another stick, and you'll be dead.
Jilly Gagnon: New Movies From Mattel
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I'm wondering if a year in an unprepared holding bed or plunk and run in the big unprepared bed is the best course of action.
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Otago town of Karitane, 40km north of Dunedin, formerly occupied by Plunket founder Sir Truby
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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Terence" -- that very small fragment of the Eunuchus which Plunkett forced into his head through the opposite pole of his person --
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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At the large tables, the servers plunked down, with rude haste, one bowl of rice in the middle of each table.
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Confidently perching or restoratively leaning on it, emphatically plunking it down or cannily relocating it, blithely ignoring it or stymiedly crumpling up over it, Stritch makes the high chair embody moods, objectify states of being.
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No matter how much I reviewed it from Day 1, every class 2-3 brought in drinks and plunked them on the countertop.
Safety Buffoons
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I plunk down a dollar and confront my deepest fears.
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After dinner they would sit together on the veranda, watching the moon rise over the rim of that wonderful valley, listening to the tree-toads in noisy convention or hearkening to the "plunk" of a trout leaping in the river below.
The Long Chance
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As was the case with Bryan Robson's shoulder, which popped its way dispiritingly through the late-1980s, sound-tracking the decade as clearly as any plunking Roland synthesiser, the temptation is now there to become wrapped up with Carroll's lager tally, to assume a condition of relentless ambient anxiety over the state of his ongoing lager thirst.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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Met Dr. Plunkett, who directed me up above the usual crossing-place of a "slue" -- Had "Boom" put up at Jordan's -- went to Huntington's, then to Howard's, P. O., saw
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,
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The table was about right, standing plunk in the middle of the floor where a farm wife could work around it from whatever side was handiest.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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He plunked me down in a blind on an icy winter day with a lit can of Sterno.
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The moderates finally plunked for the party candidate.
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There is no argument from him when aunties bundle him off to the house, to quickly change his clothes, and then plunk him onto the back seat of the car next to his mother.
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Some people think "Cleggmania" is a passing fad, including Jonathan Roper, 22, a shop assistant from Birmingham, who recently plunked down five pounds at a betting shop near Westminster.
In wager-happy Britain, 2010 becoming the year of the political bet
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Why don't you plunk yourself down with a good book?
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Martin Luther King Day for White People???
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His fingers plunked dully on the wrong key, and the young man wrenched his attention away and resumed his disjointed playing to the end of the piece.
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They heard the dull "plunk" of his sinker as he flung it into a deep, still pool.
A Little Bush Maid
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I can actually feel a sort of ‘kerplunk’ when things fall into place and I GET IT.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On the Drawbridge to “Yes”
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* Teh bideo haz plunky plunk banjo myuzic faw bakgraond *
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Shelley Vane Plunkett, who to the distinction of his name unites a noble and elevated nature.
Ma Pettengill
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However, landscaping with stones is not as easy as plunking down some rocks into the middle of a group of plants.
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Unfortunately for her she landed plunk in the middle of the battlefield.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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Grabbing a chicken leg in each hand, plunk the bird cavity over the beer can.
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Double bassist Paul Harris marvelously played throughout the work, even after his G-string (the one on the double bass, please) snapped with a loud plunk.
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And Billy dances off again in newer glee, while the inspired musician is plunking a banjo imitation on his enchanted instrument, which is unceremoniously drowned out by a circus-tune from Doc that is absolutely inspiring to every one but the barefooted brother, who drops back listlessly to his old position on the floor and sullenly renews operations on his "chigger" claims.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
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The four-legged power droid is called a plunk droid, and sure enough, that's what it says as it shuffles about.
Undefined
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He was presented to the Governor, Lord Plunkett, who presented him with a portrait of himself.
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You'll have to ply me with booze and plunk my magic twanger, and we'll see.
Archive 2009-08-01
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You find yourself a little house, a real fixer-upper, and you plunk down most of your money, intending to do some of the renovating yourself on weekends.
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In the lobby of the PetSmart PetHotel, which just opened in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, the pets' human "parents" line up to plunk down 23 dollars plus tax for each night their pooch stays.
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For a time no sound was heard save the dull "plunk" of sinkers as the lines, one by one, were flung into the water.
A Little Bush Maid
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By offering bonus goodies on the Web accessible only by those who purchase the disc, the reasoning goes, fans will be more apt to plunk their money down for a legitimate copy, rather than resort to mp3-swapping.
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And cash it was made, thirty plunks (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and
Local Color
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It is a novel which plucks the reader up only to plunk him down, firmly, in the muck and mire of everyday life, with nary by-your-leave nor apology tendered.
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They walked in, picked up their instruments and Nick started plinking and plunking at the piano.
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Another "plunked" Sir Toady in a locality which he held yet more tender, especially, as now, before dinner.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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I plunked 20 yuan down for the hat.
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I should mention that while I was critiquing my work, a dog started to trot across the park, but I managed to plunk him in the head with an acorn before he could wreck my work.
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However, it's impossible not to be struck by the confidence of the production and the performers, who open the show as a ramshackle band plunking out a handful of traditional songs.
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She plunked down $250 for a silver necklace.
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Chelsea, you could easily get pneumonia in this weather,’ I yelled, whipping off my baseball cap and plunking it on top of her head.
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The plunky Wessexians winning a ferocious match under their manager Alfred against the dirty, cheating, fouling--one might almost say "pagan"--Danes led by their boss Guthrum.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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He plunked me down in a blind on an icy winter day with a lit can of Sterno.
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The tune plunked out on the pianoforte was ridiculously simple, and even then, Clara made many obvious mistakes, creating chords that were hurtful to the ear.
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‘Two pounds,’ Dad repeats, plunking the coins onto the counter in disbelief.
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Melanie plunked her cosmetic case down on a chair.
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‘She never has any,’ David said, picking up an old worn acoustic that my grandfather gave me when I was a kid, and plunking through some tunes.
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Stephanie, age four, lugged in her big dollhouse and plunked it in the midst of the myriad of toys already spread out on the floor.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
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Plunkett was working with gases related to refrigerants when, upon checking a frozen, compressed sample of tetrafluoroethylene, he discovered that the sample had polymerized spontaneously to form PTFE.
Revolutionary Inventions For House And Home
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In 2008, Middlesbrough plunked down $22 million on Brazilian striker Afonso Alves, who had scored an impressive 47 goals in just 39 games for SC Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie.
European Soccer's Darkened Window
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A second later he heard steps on the stairs, and popped his head over the back of the couch to see Kate plunking down the stairs fiddling with the straps on her dress.
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But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean.
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She looks back at me after it makes a satisfying kerplunk.
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Chuitna and the Curse of Coal
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That's all right; I was just plunking a few notes.
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These days, inside pitches, many of which plunk a hitter, are delivered in retaliation for a teammate who was plunked or knocked to the ground by a baserunner while trying to turn a double play.
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Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of
The Framework of Home Rule
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I remember struggling to plunk out the tunes on the family piano.
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The beverage giant wants you to plunk down your money and decide for yourself.
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_And down in the big, red chair big sister plunks little sister_" 12
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
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In the lobby of the PetSmart PetHotel, which just opened in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, the pets' human "parents" line up to plunk down 23 dollars plus tax for each night their pooch stays.
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Dominic picked me up off his lap and plunked me on the floor.
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Plunk down your $33 and you get this tiny plastic refrigerator that's reminiscent of those old-fashioned Coke machines.
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As far as your feable 9-11 plunker ... by William Whitten on Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 at 12: 05: 33 PM
Obama and the Destruction of Freedom World Wide
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I dumped my bag on the floor and plunked myself on the bed, too tired to move.
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Sure, I said, and then looked on in horror as this person plunked two Barbie doll-colored sticks on the grill.
The Stir: 3 Veggie Burgers That Will Have Meat-Lovers Fooled
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When completed, the smithy was a low building of einderblock, sheet-rock, corrugated metal, and so on, plunked down in the middle of sage, paintbrush, Apache plume, and so on.
Operation Luna
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The table was about right, standing plunk in the middle of the floor where a farm wife could work around it from whatever side was handiest.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Well, while I never actually plunked any money down to support Jerry's particular dream, I did take in the odd feature at the revamped picture palace.
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B.A.M. made a little trailer for the mini-fest, which has absolutely no good information about what will be shown but is cute with its plunky soundtrack and stop-motion animation nonetheless.
B.A.M. Brings Sundance to Brooklyn
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Ever wanted to try out a new tech toy before you decide to plunker down your hard earned cash to actually own it?
Ubergizmo
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Someone ever so plunky and adorable but who can also emote shallow and self-absorbed for the twins I can't think of anyone right now but we'd only need the one actress for both rolls - do multiple shoots - make it seamless in post.
Don't Worry, These Stories Usually End In Weddings - A Dress A Day
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The bartender of The White Horse pub plunked another pint of Guinness onto the bar, and Elaine watched as the swirling, dark liquid foamed over the rim of the glass.
Klondike
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The orphanage worker led her into his office, and she plunked down ten thousand dollars - in cash - on the desk.
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Will they really be comfortable with a cozy rest-your-feet-on-any-chair type of living room, or will Mrs. Redford have apoplexy the first time Uncle David plunks his beer can down on the walnut end table?
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I plunked the mugs on the table and sat across from my best friend.
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Meantime, piano practice is a peculiar process, with an occasional plunk as my little finger fails to function as it ought, each plunk closely followed by one of a selection of mild curse words from me.
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U.S. farmers and ranchers are also plunking down thousands of dollars to duplicate prize bulls, cows, and pigs.
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Other works include a history of maternity in New Zealand and a critical look at the foundation of the Plunket Society.
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She leans over, elbows plunking on the table, face falling into her hands.
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Every desk has a stapler and everyone has had that oddly hollow feeling when they push down on it and get that hollow "plunk" of an empty chamber.
Marc Hershon: Eight White Elephants: Re-Gifting at the Holiday Office Party
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But through 42 games, Giants hitters had been plunked 13 times, which projects to 50 for the season.
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The fiord, by my recollection, is never more than a mile or a mile and a half wide at the utmost, and we came "plunk" up against the head of this fiord with a 3650-foot cliff, which we scaled, and tried to make our charts or cross observations from the top.
Story of Labrador Medical Mission
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Melanie plunked her cosmetic case down on a chair.
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Even during casual conversation he plunks out impromptu background music.
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“No such luck,” Cassidy grunted, unpinning an A3 blow-up of Catriona Plunkett from the board and rolling it up.
The Priest
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Meanwhile, Kramer's away at a baseball camp where he plunks Joe.
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He recommends that consumers think about noise when plunking their cash down on items such as car alarms (bar locks work just as well), or gas mowers, which are far noisier than their electric cousins.
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Wood and three colleagues worked at desks that consisted of chunks of plywood plunked across sawhorses.
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I suppose you do not no my name yore lady remebers my name I lived in Middlebrook with her Brothers if you can consistantly send us a small pacage of tobacco we will be very thankful Direct to James Steel & John H. Plunkett comp E 5 Regment of Virginia infantry
Augusta County: John H. Plunkett to John Miller, July 7, 1864
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Potential buyers have to register at www. broward.realforeclose.com and plunk down a 5 percent deposit based on what they expect to be their maximum bid.
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We pass plunky, unstable three-wheeled tractors, sand-matted camels, men in traditional long coats and boots with galoshes riding dusky, ballet-toed donkeys, and patient families with small, plastic bundles waiting for lifts.
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After bringing the food, the proprietor plunked down a linen-lined basket of the most excellent slices of still-warm baguette that I've had in Paris.
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And she is slowly plunking out the melody now, a pretty thing.
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Tony Clark singled and Franklin plunked Joe McEwing before Seo sacrificed.
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Slowly, but surely, that shitty little country is being driven to the sea, kerplunk.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama on Iran
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Unfortunately for her she landed plunk in the middle of the battlefield.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The old woman plunked down her bag of vegetables because it was too heavy.
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He finished the glass and plunked it down firmly on the table.
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Harry flung the hank at the commuter, the larger quantity of the line making a ‘plunk’ as it hit LEAF WINE's coachroof.
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Hugo – a musician so good, they named him bloody "Hugo" – says this bumdiddle plunky clunky bluegrass unimagining of Jay-Z's classic got the seal of approval from the big man himself, and has been doing the rounds online for over a year now.
This week's new singles
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Would you spend four grand on a doghouse or plunk down a few hundred for a cat stroller?
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Marketers usually plunk down the equivalent of $ 40, 000 or so in cash, goods or services for placement.
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In the second video, EAT, my mouth watered as plates of ceviche, pasta and crème brûlée were plunked onto the travelers' dining table or crickets—yep, crickets—chili dogs and popcorn-coated candy apples were hungrily shoved down their handsome gullets.
Christine Negroni: What We Lose When Travel Becomes A Highlight Reel
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And cash it was made, thirty PLUNKS (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and I pulled my freight.
Word of the Day
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“Plunk your magic twanger,” I think, my vocabulary shrouded in code, ancient kid shows on the radio displacing Nietzsche and Kant.
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The bartender of The White Horse pub plunked another pint of Guinness onto the bar, and Elaine watched as the swirling, dark liquid foamed over the rim of the glass.
Klondike
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This song is the opening track, and the steady plunk of the keyboard draws me into the song and doesn't let go until the final breath of the vocals fade.
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Even if you don't have much extra space in your home, a giant-sized empty cardboard box plunked down in the middle of the floor equals hours of fun for the kids.
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Mr. Wilder headed upstairs for bed, and Kate wandered back over to her couch, plunking down in it and picking up her dog-eared book.
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As a child, I took a few violin and piano lessons but never got past awkward plucking and plunking.
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Richard Stoker, a retired sales executive, recently plunked down cash for two condominiums in Miami Beach, and plans to close on one more in coming days.
Cash Buyers Lift Housing
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They walked in, picked up their instruments and Nick started plinking and plunking at the piano.
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You know what my answer to this is going to be, Bill: "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
Kids' TV Shows: No Wonder Everyone's so Scewed Up
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I promised to babysit for Mrs Plunkett.
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A few seconds and four popped caps later, she ventilated Anthony Peralez's arm with two rounds and plunked a pumpkin ball into his belly.
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• Experience with reporting protocols and tools - netflow, sflow, ntop, splunk, etc
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Like I would plunk down my quarters, hard earned by shelving half a million books every day at the Great Neck Public Library, to help a frog cross a highway.
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I watched them go and plunked down on one of the small metal chairs.
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He marched off to a local retailer and plunked down nearly $ 3, 000 for a new Power Macintosh computer system.
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The detail on these minis almost transports me to Westeros and the Dany miniature really plunks my magic twanger!
Clearance Sale at Valyrian Resin
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Jamie plunked the last glass in the drainer and pulled the drain, watching the foamy water spiral around the sink.
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She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
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All of that combined is what Microsoft's DC team calls chump-change -- they plunked down $8.8 million in 2006.
Robert Schlesinger: Google v. Micrsosoft: The K Street Factor
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Happily, I bounce over to the screen and plunk myself down.
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The easy cash is also allowing people, even those with good credit, to plunk money down on more house than they can afford.
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The criminal carefully jams the token slot with a matchbook or a gum wrapper and waits for a would-be rider to plunk a token down.
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A refill of coffee was plunked down in front of her.
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In fact, if you were to plunk down this control on a page in your existing site, it wouldn't operate because the Membership service refuses to disclose cleartext passwords by default.
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Mr. McAllister inadvertently answers the question at book's end by envisioning a male Homo erectus from a million years ago, plucked off the African plain and plunked down at a Nascar event.
Testosterone Put to the Test
