He plunged into unsuspected hollows, and waded drifts, so that he was panting when he reached the lane.
He turned and plunged into the river, recrossed it as he came, gathered up the dinner pail and shovel, passed Mary Malone, a tumbled heap in the bushes, and started toward his cabin.
Just beside the water tank, and where the embankment was twenty feet sheer, Jimmy was cautioning the Boston man to look out, when the hunter next behind him gave a wild yell and plunged into his back.
She had pulled back her sleeve, and had plunged her arm into the bag.
He opened the bag as he spoke, andplunged his hand in.
Carrington plunged at once into his subject, and announced the offer made to him, at which Madeleine expressed delight, and asked many questions.
She plunged into philanthropy, visited prisons, inspected hospitals, read the literature of pauperism and crime, saturated herself with the statistics of vice, until her mind had nearly lost sight of virtue.
He resolutely sat down, and plunged at once into his subject.
She flung her dress in a corner, and plunged her arms and head into the wash-basin, scrubbing them with a towel as if they could not be cleansed--as if nothing could ever cleanse them again.
He plunged his hands into his pockets, slanted his head and gazed at her for all the world like a saucy sparrow.
Her hand slipped down his arm to where his was plunged in his pocket, closing over it.
Patroclus and his Myrmidons at once plunged into the contest where it raged hottest; at the sight of which the joyful Grecians shouted and the ships reechoed the acclaim.
Thereat the steed broke loose, and ran madly across the plain, pursued by the bird, till Bayard plunged into the wood, and was lost to sight.
Rinaldo plunged into the forest, and spent many days in seeking Bayard, but found no traces of him.
He brought his lips near to take a kiss; he plunged his arms in to embrace the beloved object.
Nisus rushed upon Volscens and plunged his sword into his body, and was himself slain on the instant by numberless blows.
While Florismart was wholly intent upon completing his victory, Gradasso plunged his sword into his side.
Rogero plunged after him, but the long legs of the giant carried him forward so fast that the paladin could hardly keep him in sight.
At her request an old sheep was brought and plunged into the caldron.
His pursuers were already upon him, but he plunged into the river and swam across, and found the spear, with the infant safe on the other side.
He was plunged in a dungeon where no ray of daylight ever penetrated, loaded with chains, and scantily supplied with the coarsest food.
In a few minutes more the party reached the thicket in safety, and, guided by Hugues, plunged unhesitatingly into its depths.
Our mirror was vague and dim now with a moving interior of the main smelter room as De Boer plunged through.
One moment he was suspended upon the rim of it, seeing the moon and stars above him; the next he had been plunged into utter blackness.
Had they ventured a hundred yards farther during the night they would have plunged into the rocky floor of a canyon a thousand feet below.
Spawn's men, those who were not struck down, plunged away and vanished.
The man's clothing had been torn open leaving his chest bare, and he now beheld his own knife plunged to the hilt in the white flesh.
Will plungedinto the midst of the man's oratory, and would not be denied.
Then I discovered that his clothes were torn open, his chest bare, and a large knife, such as any prairie man carries in his belt, was sticking in his chest, plunged right up to the hilt.
Under this inspiring news the commercial mind of Barnriff was stirred; it was lifted out of the despondency into which the news of the cattle-stealing had plunged it.
Hast thou plunged in all riot, known all vice, revelled in all luxury, and only found satiety and loathing?
Some dark ambitious scheme was working in his brain, while the sounds of distant commotion in the camp denoted that Rome was again about to beplunged into a new revolution.
The Gentiles, plunged in dark idolatry, are ignorant of this great truth, and therefore, shrinking from the trials of adversity, to avoid the lesser evil rush upon the greater.
Rome in the mean while was plunged into fresh commotions.
Adonijah reeled beneath its deadly force, but collecting with a mighty effort his failing powers, plunged his sword into the bosom of Ithamar, who fell dead at his feet, yielding up his breath without a cry or struggle.
She had worked hard, and had done wonderfully well considering, but nevertheless at the present moment, owing to adverse circumstances, she was plunged in debt in many directions, and saw little hope of repaying what she owed.
They plunged into the midst of this wilderness, and presently the renegade blew a soft and hollow blast, when the thicket suddenly seemed to move, and discovered an aperture which had hitherto been concealed.
I am not likely to feel much concerned for the inconvenience of another, at a time when I am myself plunged in deep affliction.
As Alagraf delivered these words, he suddenly withdrew, leaving the Moor plunged in astonishment.
He then looked around, and as he saw a party of his victorious troops, chosen for his escort according to his desire, all plungedin the deepest grief, in a soothing tone he bade them be of good cheer.
He found the unfortunate father plunged in deeper affliction than before.
Gomez Arias, as he sped away, heard the piteous appeal dying faintly on the wind, and he plunged the rowels into his courser's sides, to escape the harrowing sensation which such accents produced.
The place was thus plunged in utter darkness, and Don Rodrigo, afraid of being disappointed in his revenge, called out to Gomez Arias.
Theodora remained some time plunged in a tide of feeling, painful yet pleasing, and in the recollection of past scenes she almost forgot the horrid fate of Gomez Arias.
The second evening at home Miss Lydia Vail had risen flutteringly and left them alone on the porch in the soft dusk, and at once he had plunged to his doom.
Without looking upward, he plunged back into the pool, carrying with him a number of tiny bubbles of air which gleamed like silver amid his thick fur.
With a sigh of satisfaction the moose waded in and plunged his muzzle into the clear water, breaking the star reflections into innumerable points of light as the ripples widened over the pond.
After leaving the ridge, I plunged into a dense bank of fog that lay on the plain, but still managed to keep my line, as the moon showed a lurid red and remained visible till sunrise.
On another occasion presumably the same pair strolled past within one hundred yards of our breakfast-table, but they out-distanced the boys who went in pursuit, and plunged into the river, easy winners.
After climbing a very steep hill, we arrived on a flat terrace, where there were many signs of elephant; this we crossed and plunged into the dense forest, characteristic of the slopes of these volcanoes.
Dushyanta again; who, at sight of it, remembered all, and was plunged in grief over his lost love.
The Crest-Wave was still in India when China plunged into the abyss from which her old order of ages never emerged.
Dante's Italy had not quite plunged into that orgy of vice, characteristic of the great creative ages, which we find in the Italy of the Cinquecento.
Every now and then a huge sea would come rolling up, and seem about to break on board, but the buoyant junk rose to the top of it, and then again down we plunged into the deep trough below.
I was a capital swimmer; so, hoping to save the lad, I plunged in, and followed him.
Even before I lost the railway to view I was dripping wet from cap to shoes, drops fell constantly from the end of my nose, and my eyes stung with salt even though I plunged my face into every stream.
Finally piggie plunged into a little creek by the roadside and Bo was dismounted.
Instantly there was a bolt in different directions; the candles dashed out, the beds pushed aside, and the dormitories at once plunged in profound silence, only broken by heavy breathing of the sleepers, when in strode Brother Director.
Musingly he plunged into the dark and leafless recesses of the winter forest; and shaped out of his wild thoughts, more palpably and clearly, the outline of his daring hope.
Into the stream plunged the beasts, wading clumsily along until the water was breast-high, when they began to swim.
There was no time in which to pull off shirts and trousers, and the boys plunged overboard without even taking their hats off.
They were always run along the side of the sack and never plunged into its very heart.
Billy Gard had often had occasion to be vastly surprised by the unexpected vigor and prowess of mild and law-abiding men when plunged by circumstances into the realms of the lawless.
The men of Galloway, on their part, saw but one solitary figure guarding the ford, and the foremost of them plunged into the river without minding him.
Meanwhile the knights, plunged in the luxury of the city, heeded not the appeals from Palestine, but allowed the besieged and suffering, for whose rescue they had enlisted, to linger and die without an effort on their behalf.
True, I saw no white arms upthrown, as the seal plunged into the long wave that swept the shore; and it was a grey skua that wailed above me, winging inland; yet had I not had a vision of the miracle?
The factories that were not working were sparsely lighted; to Graham they and their shrouded aisles of giant machines seemed plunged in gloom, and even where work was going on the illumination was far less brilliant than upon the public ways.
He plunged at belief and seized it, and clung for a time at her level.
Orlon and the others of the older generation plungedinto the water without ado and struck out for the other shore, using a fast double-overarm stroke.
Day after day the Skylark plunged through the vast emptiness of the interstellar reaches.
They plunged down into the council chamber, and saw Fenor, Ravindau, and Fenimol deep in conversation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plunged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.