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.
had been plunging
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past perfect progressiveof plunge.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Looking over the edge, Mr. Jones asked Mr. Newman what would have gone through his mind if it was he who had been plunging to the ground.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Now, I had suspected that Dan Crimmins had been plunging against his stable for some time.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
The Siouxes were now to be seen flying to more distant covers, with the same eagerness and desperation as, a few moments before, they had been plunging into the fight.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
Whilst the doctor had been running his eyes over the stranger, the latter had been plunging his hands into pocket after pocket of his heavy coat.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"What's singing?" said Tom, taking his head out of his basin, where he had been plunging it in cold water.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
