plank down
Example Sentences
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Many people are under the impression that just any man can plank down his money and become a Mason.
From Time Magazine Archive
Straight to headquarters at the Hotel Cleveland they went to plank down $2 each for credentials and badges, check their luggage, then set off to look for cheap rooms in boarding houses and tourist camps.
From Time Magazine Archive
But whether housewives will plank down their money for medieval cannon, Colonial warming pans, or Egyptian mummies, is a merchandising unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn’t think anything was going to happen, but suddenly we were able to pull our plank down, and the obelisk rose up out of the ground that had held it.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
He turned impulsively and reached for his purse, but as he was about to plank down his five hundred dollars in advance he remembered Mother Trigedgo’s words.
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
