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Example sentences for: dunking
How can you use “dunking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Nearby on the water’s edge is a dunking stool, used in times past for nagging wives or busybodies.
In King’s Square in St. George’s, the dunking stools and stocks show that being grounded isn’t the worst punishment in the world.
In playgrounds across America, young basketball players eschew team play in favor of taking on defenders one-on-one, dunking, and "taking over the game" in crunch time, because they want to "be like Mike," as the advertisements say.
I somehow imagined that it was a blend of dunk (a popular debate at the time concerned the propriety of dunking donuts in public) and Yiddish gedenk, the intimate singular imperative of gedenkn `to remember.
On a hot day, kids play under the fountain at the Frog Pond (without frogs nowadays and once said to be a place for dunking witches).