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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024