How to Use plank in a Sentence

plank

1 of 2 noun
  • Before the convention, there was debate over the foreign policy and economic planks.
  • Pause, then step back to a plank.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Do a side plank on your right side.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Pause, then step back to the plank.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But planks alone won’t do the whole job.
    — Christa Sgobba, Health, 3 Apr. 2026
  • So, who’s up for a side plank with clamshell streak?
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Stone and plank in calm, neutral tones.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Players will walk a plank to get to the ice.
    — Joe Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Push up through your palms to return to a plank.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
  • Bare planks serve as bookshelves.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Stretch or do a short plank while your coffee brews.
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • Instead of gray, try lime-washed or bleached wood planks.
    — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 6 Jan. 2026
  • If the plank isn’t the one next to the wall, the next gap might open up.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The ceilings are high and beamed; the floors are wide-plank.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Hold a plank two to three times a week to work your way up to your one-minute goal.
    — Rebecca Strong, Health, 20 July 2023
  • Game Board – large wooden board or plank, or stone slab.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Copeland drew a plank board design on a piece of paper.
    — James Varsallone, Miami Herald, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Start in a side plank position with your body in one long plane.
    — Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Pause, then step back to the plank position.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Then press against the ground and quickly return to a tall plank.
    — Margaret Cirino, NPR, 21 June 2026
  • Hathaway does three-minute planks and eats lean proteins.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • To do a plank, start on hands and knees, wrists under shoulders.
    — Danielle Zickl, Health, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Oak planks burnished, bleached, and faded over decades.
    — Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • To create cubes, slice into planks, then sticks, then cubes.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • Lift your knees off the ground and extend your legs to come into a high plank.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Lift your right arm toward the ceiling to form a side plank on your left side.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • They’ve been beaten with tire irons, bottles, planks, chains.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Here, that’s mimicked through the use of cedar planks, which wrap the facade.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
  • How many starved to death, how many slit their own throats, how many tried to mutiny, how many walked the plank.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • For planks, aim for 15 to 30 seconds per set.
    — Dana Santas Feb 28, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026

plank

2 of 2 verb
  • The show is clear-eyed and irony-free, the plot laid out in neat, straight planking.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And the ceiling is planked in random boards that don't even match the walls.
    — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 3 Oct. 2012
  • Just look in the living room with Old English wood planked floors.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The other partner broad jumps over the planking partner, turns around and broad jumps back over.
    — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Tighten your abs and shift to plank position, then shift your right foot to alongside your right hand.
    — Eric Leija, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • The other half, after the first few strokes, simply gave up and planked, sinking to the bottom.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Everything else kinda follows suit, and that’s what’s so kind of great about planking.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The key takeaway is to give planking a try by starting slowly and easily.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Timo advised me to switch to a special, wafer-thin marine-grade plywood and plank the bottom in two layers.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2020
  • Razzouk claims to have some of the 500-year-old wood planks his family used for tattooing.
    — Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2024
  • If the promise of small talk with the former First Lady isn't enough to get you out of bed, what about planking with her?
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 June 2017
  • Sip vintages in the cavernous cedar-planked warehouse of The Austin Winery.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The six floors—many wood planked like a ship’s deck—are chockablock with well-upholstered conference rooms and pullout spaces.
    — WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The pseudo-Biedermeier at the flea market— over its workaday planking a veneer of nicer wood.
    — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The fun choices that will dictate look—like selecting the type of wood, grain, and plank width for your room—are mostly a matter of personal taste.
    — Sarah Baird, Good Housekeeping, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The bodyweight dips will fire up your arms and shoulders; the lateral lunge shift will work your glutes and hamstrings; and the side plank with rotation will work your core.
    — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The TrafficMaster vinyl plank flooring is easy to clean and maintain with just a dust mop or vacuum.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
  • He’s been involved in record-setting attempts for planking, rope-skipping and stationary cycling.
    — Jessie Spangler, Aurora Beacon-News, 23 June 2018
  • Throughout the course of this 20-minute workout video, Mays also drops some super important push-up and plank tips.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Until the supply chain catches up with demand, strengthening enthusiasts can still plank for free.
    — Jenni Avins, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Some sections of planking are worn away but enough remain for archaeologists to consider the ship as an oldest-of-its-kind find.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • New are grilled Maine eel over broken rice, and baby Pennsylvania rainbow trout planked like fresh sardines.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • The only wreckage recovered at the time was part of a starboard bow planking, a stateroom door, a panel from the promenade deck, and a few air tanks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
  • From time to time, Art would call Todd and sing a line or two into his voice mail, hoping Todd could plank out the appropriate chords.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But Straus’ presence was evident through Patrick’s speech, and debates over party rules and platform planks that tied back to the speaker.
    — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2018
  • The three-story residence has custom, wide wood plank flooring throughout and showcases a dramatic foyer with a grand staircase at the front.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Nearby, resident Griselda Alvarado stood shaded from the baking sun outside her bare wood plank home.
    — courier-journal.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Most of these stunts were simple and silly, but one-upmanship eventually took over as daredevils planked in more outrageous and dangerous places.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 29 June 2017
  • The medieval ship lay more than a half-mile down at the bottom of the Black Sea, its masts, timbers and planking undisturbed in the darkness for seven or eight centuries.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • According to public health officials, following these measures is critical to planking the curve.
    — refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020

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