plunk down
Example Sentences
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“If it doesn’t pan out, we have just plunked down a lot of money on the table that depreciates really quickly. And the clock is ticking.”
This isn’t the first time that Nvidia is plunking down cash to invest in a partner.
From MarketWatch
They glided over the pasture and plunked down into the pond.
From Literature
Years of frugality tugged at my brain, but I plunked down her credit card for the better mattress.
In Disney’s new “Monsters, Inc.” it’s a joke when the film briefly plunks down in Paris and there’s accordion music playing — that’s our movie-fed idea of Paris.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.