Thesaurus results for PLANK

plank

verb

Definition of plank next

as in to plop

to throw or set down clumsily or casually planked the carton down on the counter and left

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Recent Examples of plank The rather elegant pool house built there by FDR, for example, was planked over during the Nixon administration in order to build the current, somewhat frumpy Press Room. —

Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025 Schwartz embraces planking as a convenient way to work virtually every major muscle in the body. —

Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025 The key takeaway is to give planking a try by starting slowly and easily. —

Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024 Razzouk claims to have some of the 500-year-old wood planks his family used for tattooing. —

Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for plank

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But by April, a high pressure system plopped itself on Central Florida and the rainy weather came to a sudden halt, as if a faucet had suddenly been shut off.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
Then a volcanic eruption plops a curious soft echidna’s egg in his path.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 12 June 2026