Abbot Samson, at the culminating point of his existence: Our real-phantasmagory of St. Edmundsbury plunges into the bosom of the Twelfth Century again, and all is over.
She was in that pleasant attitude of mind--poised--like a diver on a summer day, before he plunges into the glittering green water.
After this, she plunged twice in the tank, in honor of the second sister; and with every new obsession the number of her plunges increased, till it became six.
Then their divine spirit, the undying part of them, separates from the soul and returns to its primitive source; the soul is reduced to its primordial atoms, and the monad plunges into the darkness of eternal unconsciousness.
All is in vain, however; a gun is fired, the animal plunges and doubles with incomparable speed.
But after you have left Lake Erie on the east you find yourself in the Niagara River, which at the Niagara Falls plunges several hundred feet downwards into Lake Ontario.
As the winter plunges still deeper the roots of the trees in the earth, so the wintry state of the soul plunges it deeper in humiliation.
Out of this normal state he plunges into physical life for brief periods in order that he may gain experiences otherwise unattainable, and bring them back to enrich his more abiding condition.
I turned My heart away for good, as a man might Who plunges and beholds the woman smile And take another's arm and walk away.
For if a woman plunges from her aim To piety, devotion such as this, She will plunge back to sin, unstable heart, That swings from self-denial to indulgence And spends itself in both.
The girl takes to society as naturally as a duckling does to the placid pond, but with a semblance of shy timidity; the boy plunges in with a great splash, and hides his shy awkwardness in noise and commotion.
No check to let down; he plunges his nose in nearly to his eyes.
In that assembly a man who plunges half-lire pieces on every spin of the ball is a man who means business; and the dilettanti soon let me press through to a stool at the table.
The two booms did certainly make occasional plunges which might have jarred timid nerves, but such a trifle did not disturb us.
For the spell of the sorceress burdened him more this night than ever before, and the man's heart was going in great plunges against his side.
Hope sent his heart in mad plunges against his side--if he could only escape!
Seating himself on this, he awaits the coming of the unsuspicious creature, and, when it is underneath, plunges his spear down between its ribs, the blade of the spear being a bone taken from some former victim of its own species.
Then, with a rush over the ledge, he plunges in, sending the cormorant off in affright, and taking possession of the prey it has left behind.
Intoxication is the demon that creeps into their souls, fires their heated blood, plunges his victims into an abyss of crime and transforms man, the noblest work of the Creator, into a ferocious brute.
Everybody plunges his gaze at will into his neighbor's domains.
Here she gives him a direct, piercing look, by which she plunges into her husband's eyes when he least expects it: a sword in a heart.
He gives the appointed signal, and instantaneously plunges his knife into the heart of the trusting Dahcotah.
Some three miles from the city, amid pine forests of perpetual shade, the River Nid plunges over hard dark blue rocks to form the Lerfos Falls.
When he felt the lure of London, and determined to fling himself into its tumult, he took 'one of the biggest plunges that a man might take.
The banks of the lagoons are clad with thick long grass, in which naked urchins and ducks innumerable seem to luxuriate all day long, alternating with plunges into the water, puffing at cigars nearly as big as themselves.
The people run up this incline in endless file, and their plunges whiten the surrounding water with foam.
Then the sport begins; the watcher snatches off his sulu and plungesdown into the depths to meet him.
Oh, the beautiful red cow that plunges into the wet grass up to her dewlaps!
The water easily forces its way between these till it reaches the solid lava, when it leaves its high, narrow, and thickly-wooded banks, and plunges into the deep chasm it has itself worn away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plunges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
