VERB
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set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
He planked himself into the sofa
He planked the money on the table
How To Use plunk down In A Sentence
- Are audiences so undiscriminating that they will plunk down $9 to see something this creatively bankrupt?
- She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves. "The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
- Aficionados all share a certain fondness for the transporter, the device that allowed the intrepid crew of the Enterprise to plunk down on various planets without benefit of spacecraft.
- No one's forcing anyone to buy skybox seats, tune in to Monday Night Football or plunk down a Ben Franklin for that replica jersey.
- She would have had to appear in person to sign the application and plunk down fifty dollars. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- She would have had to appear in person to sign the application and plunk down fifty dollars. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- I plunk down a dollar and confront my deepest fears.
- You find yourself a little house, a real fixer-upper, and you plunk down most of your money, intending to do some of the renovating yourself on weekends.
- In the lobby of the PetSmart PetHotel, which just opened in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, the pets' human "parents" line up to plunk down 23 dollars plus tax for each night their pooch stays.
- The beverage giant wants you to plunk down your money and decide for yourself.
