Thesaurus / belly-flopping
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synonyms for belly-flopping
- descend
- dip
- drive
- drop
- go down
- hurtle
- jump
- nose-dive
- plummet
- sink
- throw
- tumble
- career
- cast
- charge
- dash
- duck
- fling
- immerse
- keel
- lunge
- lurch
- pitch
- plunk
- propel
- rush
- sound
- submerge
- submerse
- swoop
- tear
- thrust
- topple
- go the limit
- go whole hog
- immerge
- shoot the works
- take a flyer
- take a header
- throw oneself
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use belly-flopping in a sentence
There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly's sake, and he will take up a shield against the enemy.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIn the beautiful modelled violin this is provided for in the rise of the back and belly.
VIOLINS AND VIOLIN MAKERSJOSEPH PEARCEDelancy caught it with one arm and a belly and passed it back through the door to Squid Murphy who was standing just outside.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe bridge should be fitted as accurately as the post, and as though it grew from the belly, the feet touching equally all round.
VIOLINS AND VIOLIN MAKERSJOSEPH PEARCEThere was no shelling at the moment, but rifle bullets kept flopping into the parapet especially when the periscope was moved.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONNo hard feelings, chiseler, but I sure would like to put a couple of slugs in your belly!
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSFish scales cover the walls, and everywhere there is a smell as if one were in the belly of a whale.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDThe belly and lower surface of the tail are covered with large six-sided scales, like the other genera of the family.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSFlick Wilder now began to return, talking violently and flopping about in the last stages of a nightmare.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON