Sentence Examples:
Was that mountain of ice about to take the plunge at last, and turn over, its base being eaten away to such an extent that the whole had become top-heavy?
If it is for the good of the party for you to throw me overboard, you must do it, and I can assure you I'll take the plunge willingly.
The horror with which they speak of the gulf after managing to struggle back to the right side is supposed to illustrate the cruelty of encouraging others to take the plunge.
He is like a man who knows that he stands upon a sinking ship, yet, who whilst promising to take the plunge every moment, hesitates and will continue to hesitate until someone pushes him in.
For a long time my horse refused to take the plunge down the steep bank, snorted and braced himself.
And yet there have been times when the poor girl has wanted to speak, and yet could not quite bring herself to take the plunge.
I don't think that we could get near enough actually to look down, but we could get near enough to see the water where it begins to take the plunge.
How good he had been to her all those last days, since she told him that she was going to take the plunge!
The girl's hand was passed around to the back of her waist, where it lingered for an instant, then both hands were thrown forward just as a diver does before taking the plunge.
"You keep shouting all the while," I said, before taking the plunge; "your voices will guide me."
"If you are to jump into the cold water," said Ralph, "you'd better take the plunge at once."
He did not take her in, lest he be charged with selling her as a white slave, but left her on the brink of ruin to take the plunge alone.
They were all lofty and difficult of access, but I at length climbed up to one, from which, though twenty or thirty feet from the path below, I determined to take the plunge.
The colonel looks round at all the eager earnest interested maps hastily put on for his benefit and decides to take the plunge.
In fairness to her, you ought to give her a chance of knowing you before she takes the plunge.
At that time he had known her but slightly; perhaps, for that very reason, he had been bolder in taking the plunge.
The North Elba stage sometimes hesitates there before taking the plunge into the valley below.
She had not been troubled by the pain for several days; she hoped it would leave her for good now that she had stopped taking the plunge.
Then romance called, and sometimes I began to think I might take the plunge, but I hesitated.
Like the boy shivering on the brink of the stream, he needs but a "little shove" to make him take the plunge.
Allowing for the strength of the current it's just about here that I should take the plunge.
She was on the verge before she knew, she did not love him well enough to take the plunge, yet liked him so much that her retreat had to be cowardly.
She could not avoid jealousy of the past; and, with that in her, she could not bring herself to take the plunge into a life so different from any she had ever imagined.
More than that, she would never be younger, never handsomer, never better able to take the plunge, and face the consequences.
The silvery crescent moon just hung trembling above the horizon, preparatory to taking the plunge that would hide her from view until another night rolled around.
And so, without speaking further, these two young persons, who were about to take the plunge hand in hand, set out together toward the east.
The first thing to be done was to secure teachers, and, now that it came to the point, some even of those who had been most favorable showed a singular reluctance to take the plunge.
I would not, however, have the reader think for a minute that I lacked the courage to take the plunge myself.
Asked Arthur, as he and Tom backed water with their paddles to keep their canoes from taking the plunge before they were ready.
Then, having made up his mind to take the plunge, he told Smithies the full story of his editorial dilemma, and anxiously waited to see what his sporting friend would say.
He therefore determined, at forty years of age, to take the plunge and to precede his family to America in order to find out whether a living and a new career might be made possible in the New World.
Then, finally, Violet seemed to make up her mind to take the plunge, and sat down on the edge of the seat where he lounged.
And then, before he again reached the determination to take the plunge, events made it unnecessary.
It is very clear that I was in no haste to take the plunge into my writing life, if as plunge this first attempt may be described.
It was the disturbing thought that the second condition did not necessarily follow on to the first that had kept Steve from taking the plunge for the last two years.
Honest, I just squeeze up with excitement where you stand there at the edge of the deck and take the plunge into the water to rescue Norma Beautiful.