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 McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

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 Maclaren, Alexander