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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.


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