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Example sentences for "lunging"

Lexicographically close words:
lunga; lunge; lunged; lunger; lunges; lungo; lungs; lunules; luny; luo
  1. Lutz and his men, lunging in among the lighter ponies, bore them back by sheer force of weight.

  2. Sanders, lunging along after his major, "why ain't I with my own instead of loafing here?

  3. But in the same instant he was jolted half off his feet by the lunging shoulder of one of the Hayles marching to the refrain: "Do you belong to Gideon's band?

  4. The wolf was instantly on his feet and lunging again, but a sharp "Heel!

  5. Buck Daniels sat lunging forward in his chair, his knees supporting his elbows, and scowled up at the window with a sort of sullen terror.

  6. At this, he finally bolted, jerking her bodily off her feet as she clutched desperately onto the lunging stallion's mane with the fingers of both hands.

  7. In Paul's eyes the sight of the gray-headed premier of seventy parrying and lunging with all the ardor of a boy of seventeen was significant of much.

  8. Precisely my reason for visiting it," returned Paul, lunging with his sabre-point at a mosquito that had just settled on a panel of the wall.

  9. But Wyndham had known what was coming quite as well as Oakdale, and Newbert, pitching the ball beyond the batsman's reach, gave the catcher every chance to get the runner as he came lunging hopelessly toward the pan.

  10. He tried lunging back against the rope, but the speed of the train was too great; he could not brace a foot, he could not pause.

  11. No breath of wind stirred, no movement of nature disturbed the silent waiting of the dusty land, save the lunging of foolish grasshoppers among the drooping, withered sunflowers beside the road as the travelers passed.

  12. Then the quartermaster seized the other man by the throat and, lunging like a bull, whipped him against the mast, snapping his neck.

  13. The burning ball was slammed toward the middle of the field, and the players spurred their horses after it in lunging pursuit.

  14. We reached it and flung ourselves into its ten-foot width just as the giant came lunging up.

  15. Alan was lunging back and forth; stamping; flinging his tiny adversaries away.

  16. Through the green fumes of electrical gases which were filling the room I saw him lunging at the circular tables, overturning them.

  17. We rose a few feet and sank back, gripping each other, lunging and striking.

  18. The victorious Grantline ships one by one came lunging up: only twelve of them now.

  19. I was aware of Anita lunging to retrieve it.

  20. Then, the sow was lunging at her again, over the prostrate dog's body.

  21. Sixty-odd pounds of sinewy weight smote the lunging mongrel, obliquely, on the left shoulder; knocking the great brute's legs from under him and throwing him completely off his balance.

  22. Lunging forward, he raked at the crouching collie, with one of his murderous claws; in a gesture designed to gather the impudent dog into his death-embrace.

  23. And, as the bear turned, Lad was at him again, nipping the hairy flank, till his teeth met in its fat; and then diving as before under the lunging body of the foe.

  24. It was his wolf-ancestry that lent him the wit and the nimbleness to spin to his feet, under the big assailant's lunging body, and to find by instinct the hind leg tendon of the lumbering brute.

  25. Then, in practically the same gesture, the Black shifted his direction, and dived beneath the charging collie, lunging for the latter's unprotected stomach.

  26. The bulldog, lunging murderously for the exposed throat, missed his mark by reason of Buff's swirling motion of scrambling to his feet again.

  27. A shepherd made a lunging rush at the two salvaged sheep.

  28. For that lunging head is one of the swiftest things in the whole swift-moving animal world.

  29. A great gray form came lunging out of the snow flurries.

  30. He was standing alone among the high reeds of a marshy fen, and a buffalo was lunging at him, head down.

  31. Noiselessly Conan coiled his long legs under him; his naked sword was in his right hand, and when he struck it was as suddenly and murderously as a tiger lunging out of the dark.

  32. With one eye he gave us a greeting, while he kept the other on the lunging horses.

  33. The cars still follow their routes, lunging and pausing like huge beetles; but much of the wheel traffic has melted, with only here and there a cab or truck between which gold-splashed umbrellas pick a hazardous way.

  34. He is now lunging ten times to the right, ten times to the left and ten times backwards every morning, besides breathing lightly through the nose during his bath.

  35. In spite of this, however, Roger did not neglect his exercises; taking particular care to keep the toes well turned in when lunging ten times backwards.

  36. The least suspicion of pawing backwards, or lunging forwards, as the ski touches the snow is sure to make it slip.

  37. If need be, instead of lunging you slip the left foot to the rear, throw the left shoulder well back, so as to be out of the way, and drop the body, in order to avoid being hit yourself.

  38. The assault teaches the novice what no amount of lunging at the master's pad can drill into him.

  39. Returns are made without lunging if the adversary can be reached by thrusts or cuts.

  40. Accuracy in thrusting and lunging is best attained by practicing these attacks against rings or other convenient openings, about 3 inches in diameter, suitably suspended at desired heights.

  41. Though the blow staggered him, the wild-beast frenzy still blazed in him, and he got to his feet, lunging into the air.

  42. He put up his hands to protect his face, but Jurgis, lunging with all the power of his arm and body, struck him fairly between the eyes and knocked him backward.


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