Words similar to lunge

Example sentences for: lunge

How can you use “lunge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That same year, the paper digested Kitty Kelley's spuriously sourced Nancy Reagan biography on Page 1. In a transparent lunge for a Pulitzer Prize in early 1996, the Times published a seven-part series alleging that the downsizing of the American workforce was creating "millions of casualties."
I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.
English regards lungs as a plural (at least its speakers do), but German die Lunge is singular.