plunk
Example Sentences
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Their fee would be based on your investible assets, so if you take all of that $1 million and plunk it down on a house, their fee goes way down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
I plunk down on the sand next to Finnick and screw the lid off the tube.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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