plunge
verb (used with object)
to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge.
am plunging
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present progressiveof plunge (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Despite the fact that we climb a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I am plunging into the earth.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Perfect health in spite of the cough, which lets me sleep now that I am plunging daily in a furious little torrent, cold as ice.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
And I daresay there are a great many of you to whom the utterance of the word suggests that I am plunging into the bathos and commonplaces of the pulpit.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
