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Example sentences for "lunge"

Lexicographically close words:
lunes; lunette; lunettes; lung; lunga; lunged; lunger; lunges; lunging; lungo
  1. His forward lunge had placed another miner hors de combat, and Jarvis sprang forward and secured the wounded man's bludgeon.

  2. Catching the club from the falling man, Jack made a sudden lunge forward at the face of the nearest foe.

  3. When you gave Merete to Vinzents Lunge the Danes held the mastery on all sides throughout our land.

  4. Meseems your daughter Merete's marriage with Vinzents Lunge might have taught you the cost of such a step as this.

  5. But Philip and I knew that the lunge had pierced the heart, and that the accomplished Lovelace on the ground would charm no more women.

  6. Suddenly Tom made a powerful lunge that seemed to find the captain unready.

  7. Marguerite, tall and stout, her head wrapped in a linen coif held in place with a net of pearls, stood with a sudden, graceless lunge that knocked her chair over.

  8. But Sophia's lunge had pushed the two men apart.

  9. In his dimming vision Daoud saw Sordello lunge at him, holding a long dagger.

  10. He made a feint to lunge at Grant, and as before, Grant was unable to resist the temptation to strike back quickly.

  11. Franklin, however, with ready presence of mind had swung his canoe around the minute it righted itself and Grant's lunge at Thomas missed.

  12. He leapt nimbly aside, and the murderous lunge shot past him; as he did so he dropped his left-hand sword and caught at the halberd.

  13. But Gregory's answer had been a lunge which the boy had been forced to parry.

  14. He loses hold of his weapon, his fingers slipping from the quillons, but catches it in mid-air before it drops, leaps back a yard, parrying another lunge clever with his left hand as he does so.

  15. On his way, Herr Øve Lunge met a Bonde with an axe, and he was obliged to turn aside, as the evil one has no power against an edge of steel.

  16. They assented readily; but the foal ridden by Herr Øve Lunge went like a bird, and two black boars followed, rooting up the line the foal took, so as to enclose the land.

  17. As Herr Øve Lunge had sold himself to the evil one, he can of course find no rest, and his ghost is seen, followed by his hounds, as he hunts at night over the property thus acquired.

  18. Despairing his life, he made one wild lunge at me that had never gone home had I held to my hilt.

  19. The duke seemed to see my game, struggled against it, tried to rush in under my guard, made a vicious lunge that would have ended me then and there had he not slipped.

  20. The Boers at this period managed to collect in sufficient quantity to make a violent lunge at a convoy proceeding between Whitbank and Mooifontein, on its way to Standerton.

  21. At dawn on 29th, he and Delarey (who had evidently followed Colonel Kekewich from the Valley of the Toelani) made a lunge at the British camp near Moedwill.

  22. The enemy was hovering all round the region, and it was deemed advisable to return to camp before making a lunge at them.

  23. De Villiers and Conroy, with a strong force, made a lunge upon Griquatown, the garrison of the place being only 100 in number.

  24. Boers made a violent lunge on the west and north of the position, directing the main fury of their attack at the two laagers held by the Durham Company of Artillery.

  25. Before he could wrench the blade free again, the bull's quick lunge to seize him in those awful arms had torn the weapon from Tarzan's grasp.

  26. Once it fell about the short neck of Horta, the boar, and his mad lunge for freedom toppled Tarzan from the overhanging limb where he had lain in wait and from whence he had launched his sinuous coil.

  27. He had waylaid her as she went to a spring for water, and with a lunge like that of a bear he had tried to embrace her.

  28. With a lunge he cleared the threshold to loom over her.

  29. He whirled himself, feet first, over backward, in a lunge like that of a lassoed steer.

  30. Replied Sharrkan, "Thou art in safety: fear neither sway of sword nor lunge of lance.

  31. Unbelievers and circled hither and thither amongst the Deniers, cutting and thrusting and covering the ground with heads and trunks, so that the Faithless feared him and their necks bent under his lunge and hew.

  32. One brushed my face with his wings, and was driven away only when Sandy in the bow gave a mighty lunge of his spear and with a howl of exultation flung a twenty-pound, kicking salmon back into my lap.

  33. When a deer was headed suddenly and braced himself in his tracks, the body would lunge forward till the fore legs seemed hung almost in the middle of his belly.

  34. The straight course is life, the tangent disease, the saving lunge recovery.

  35. It can recover the safe track only by a sudden and often violent lunge of the opposing racket.

  36. Dick would lower his head and lunge at Pan, trying to butt him in the abdomen.

  37. With one powerful lunge he jerked Hardman back and flung him sprawling into the dust.

  38. To throw one's whole strength and weight on the oars and to feel the boat checked in its forward lunge by the heavy drag behind, was not exactly exhilarating.

  39. He still held the wheel, and I felt that he was timing Time, reckoning the passage of the minutes with each forward lunge and leeward roll of the Ghost.

  40. As it passed, Wolf Larsen began to speak, the bare-headed men swaying in unison, to the heave and lunge of the deck.

  41. They saw the gorilla stagger, then drop to all fours, and lunge toward them.

  42. Frank had made a furious lunge at the "old man" and missed him by a hair's-breadth when he felt two great hairy arms encircle him from behind and the hot breath of one of his horrible opponents whistling savagely in his ear.

  43. He tried to lunge backwards at the creature, but toppled over and fell sprawling.

  44. But his outburst didn't come before he had made a savage lunge at Ben Stubbs with a short heavy knife.

  45. It might prove more troublesome to teach most horses this trick than to have them placed upon their haunches in the usual way by means of a strong curb, or by lessons with the lunge line.

  46. After a few lessons with the lunge line, given by a regular trainer, a saddle was put on his back, and for the first time in his life he carried a human being.

  47. With a sudden lunge of his right arm, Bixton snatched at the little sheaf of papers.

  48. Making a lunge for his cot he bundled himself upon it in a heap.

  49. With a lunge he met his reeling son, swinging a huge fist into the sodden red face.

  50. With swift and powerful lunge Wade pulled Belllounds down, sliding him shoulders first into the grass.

  51. You waste your quart and tierce, Lunge at a phantom here, try fence in fairy-land.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lunge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.