lunge

Object

• block: Jamie Lawrence decided to try his luck from 25-yards but the danger looked to have been cleared by Woodgate's lunging block.
• challenge: The older calmer heads did little to help with both Kemp and Burns booked for awful lunging challenges deep in the Weymouth half.

Converse of object

• absorb: Forgiving enough to absorb the lunges of a big carp but with enough reserve to stop fish when needed.
• despair: The cross eluded everyone, closest of all to getting a decisive touch was David Fox but his despairing lunge came up just short.
• perform: Try performing a lunge with a curl, or lateral raise.
• make: Just about to make the lunge, the bolt fell out.
• do: Influence on knitwear you should do classic lunge of.

Adjective modifier

• two-footed: Michael Brown was extremely fortunate to escape with only a yellow card for a horrible two-footed lunge on Giggs.
• desperate: Only a desperate goal line lunge by Griffiths kept the score line from slipping even further in the last minute.
• sudden: A slightly through action helps cushion sudden lunges OK, let's have the $ 64,000 question.
• wild: The former Arsenal captain was clear on goal before Juan took him out with a wild lunge.
• late: Moments later, he's booked for a late lunge on Mark van Bommel.

Modifies a noun

• feeding: In the ' Animal Behavior ' category, Duncan Murrell won with a powerful image of a humpback whale lunge feeding.
• position: In a lunge position, keeping your forward knee behind the forward ankle, lower your pelvis to the ground.
• line: We took her saddle off and I rode her bare back with Richard on the end of the lunge line.

Modifying Another Word

• forward: She claimed the bumper touched a horse which lunged forward into her.
• suddenly: Something suddenly lunges toward him, too fast to recognize.
• then: The cow took a step backward then lunged forward straight at Spike.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: The tent lunges out of the darkness to fight with me.

Preposition: with

• leg: Once the engine is warm, they start easier, and a desperate lunge with the left leg will often get it going again.