How to Use lunge in a Sentence

lunge

1 of 2 noun
  • He made a lunge at me with his knife.
  • He made a desperate lunge for the ball.
  • Step the right foot to 3 o’clock and sink the hips down and back into a side lunge.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Step the right foot backward and to the right side to 5 o’clock and sink into a lunge.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Clark did well to react with a lunge and tip it over the bar.
    Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The rise of lunge feeding in the rorquals was momentous.
    Eric M. Keen, Scientific American, 31 July 2020
  • Just push the chair back or to the side and kneel in a lunge position in front of your desk.
    Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2022
  • At the bottom of the lunge twist your torso to the left, and then to the right. Press back to start, and perform the move to the left.
    Greg Presto, Men's Health, 9 June 2022
  • Low lunge: From the lunge position, drop your back knee to the ground.
    Women's Health, 11 July 2023
  • The positions involved lots of twists (good for the spine!) and lunges.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Add a twist of the torso at the bottom of the lunge to activate your core.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Low lunge — This opens up the psoas muscle, the deepest muscle in the core that connects the spine to the legs.
    Kelly Dinardo New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • For the split squat and lateral lunge, this means 10-15 reps on each side.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 16 July 2022
  • The zones include core, squat, push, lunge, pull, agility and bend.
    Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
  • How to Do It: Come down with one knee down on the ground and the other foot planted in front of you in a lunge pose.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Crescent Lunge Place one knee down on the ground and the other foot planted in front of you in a lunge.
    Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Add the drop-freeze lunge to your lower body workouts with 3 sets of 5 to 7 reps per side.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 July 2023
  • Why: The lunge targets the quads, glutes and lower back while also working the core.
    WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • Set up in a lunge position with your feet hip-width apart.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 22 July 2022
  • Hold for two counts before walking back to the runner's lunge.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Castellanos ran a long way, then with a lunge made the inning-ending catch while sliding to the ground.
    Kristie Rieken, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Push down through the front foot to rise out of the lunge, bending forward at the trunk by hinging at the hip while keeping the back straight.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Bring your rear knee toward the floor and lean slightly forward at the bottom of this lunge.
    Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Place right foot back down and step left foot back in a low lunge while left hand touches the ground in front of you and right hand rest on back.
    Tiffany Ayuda, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • These forms include core, squat, push, lunge, pull, agility and bend.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 20 July 2023
  • Mauricio Dubón had to get on his horse to haul in Pollock’s drive to the track in center, but Dubón got it with a sprint and a lunge.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In the video, one of the two, believed to be Momeni, lunges toward the second person, believed to be Lee.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • To perform on the transverse plane, step back to 5 o’clock and sit into a drop lunge, reaching hands down to knee height.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • With a lunge, the petrel bites the albatross around the neck, dragging it off into the bushes.
    Jake Buehler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2021
  • Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt track in a runner’s lunge, waiting to spring forward as soon as her mother started the clock.
    Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Andrea Bruce, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2023
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lunge

2 of 2 verb
  • The dog lunged for his throat.
  • She lunged across the table.
  • He lunged at me with his knife.
  • The crocodile lunged at its prey.
  • Luck plucked it out of the air and lunged into the end zone.
    Indystar Sports, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The woman swiped the bangs out of her flushed face and lunged.
    Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Rafael Devers was well off the bag and had to lunge for the ball.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Howell fumbled and Cameron Thomas scooped the ball up and lunged across the goal line for the go-ahead score.
    Emily Horos, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Instead, the buck lunged into the South Texas brush, his tail tucked tight.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Sargsyan lunged for his phones, but the officers got to them first.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Don't worry if the tiny lion lunges for a bite, though.
    Elizabeth Wolfe and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
  • But the bear cut Koerber and ChewB off from the front door and lunged again at the little Yorkie.
    Dean Hensley, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Then the big cat lunges forward and slams its sizable paws against the window with a thud.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Push yourself back to the starting position and lunge to the left.
    Kelly Dinardo, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Gently lunge forward to get that stretch right in the back of the calves and bend your knees a bit for a deeper stretch.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Taylor stopped and tried to lunge forward at the last second but couldn’t get his glove on the ball.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Most props that promise to lunge and jump end up moving with the spunk of a tortoise in a race.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Switch sides and lunge your left foot behind you to 7 o’clock and step it across your body to 2 o’clock, rotating the arms.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The tiger lunged at the smaller feline, and when Yates came between them, he was sliced by Ming’s fangs.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • At one nest, a trio of gawky heron chicks hiss and lunge when Ms. Garner reaches out her hand.
    Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • Twist 10 times in total (5 times on each side), then lunge on the other leg and repeat.
    Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The bear lunged again, and his front paws and claws came within a couple of inches of little ChewB.
    Dean Hensley, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • If not, step that left foot backward to lunge, then return the right leg backward to kneel.
    Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Williams could only lunge for Mahomes with his left hand, and no flag was thrown.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Within a couple of minutes, the dogs start to pull and lunge, eager to run again, just a few miles left.
    Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Whitehead lunged, but simply bounced off of Fant, who broke two more tackles en route to the score.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The victim stated that Winfrey lunged at her, striking the left side of her neck and yanking the phone away.
    cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Adding to the importance of the result, was the style in which Rice lunged ahead in the first half and held on to win against Middle Tennessee.
    Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Jeff and Jordan lunged for his back paws, straining to hold on to him; Wes jumped on his back and grabbed his collar.
    Corey Arnold, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • All three attacks took place just outside residents’ homes, with at least two of them happening on the homeowners’ porches — one when the predator lunged at the dog and grabbed it off the steps.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024

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