plunk

Example Sentences

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Plenty of you who regularly plunk down thousands for a business-class seat care about just one thing, of course: horizontal sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

The ball pops up in the air and soars into an arc, drifting against the blue sky, then comes down with a plunk on the glass wall behind Jon Guerra.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

“There’s still a small population of people who are willing to plunk down the money to buy the Enquirer at the supermarket,” Levine said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Then far below, as if the stone had fallen into deep water in some cavernous place, there came a plunk, very distant, but magnified and repeated in the hollow shaft.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien