How to Use plummet in a Sentence

plummet

verb
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  • The car plummeted to the bottom of the canyon.
  • The satellite plummeted into the ocean.
  • The town's population plummets when the students leave for the summer.
  • The acrobat plummeted into the net.
  • The TV show has plummeted in the ratings.
  • Temperatures are expected to plummet this weekend.
  • Stock prices plummeted 40 percent during the scandal.
  • An offense that plummeted to last in the SEC in yards per play.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Since the start of this year, Macy’s stock price has plummeted more than 13%.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • His sales have plummeted as his prices have more than tripled.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • When blood sugar levels plummet, the body thinks it hasn't been fed and craves more of the glucose that cells need to function.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The outfielder saw his numbers plummet last year in the first of his four-year deal with the Marlins worth $53 million.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • They were awakened when a Jeep plummeted off a 40-foot cliff and landed on its roof in the ocean’s rocky shallows.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The country also saw reading and math performance plummet among fourth and eighth graders in the same year.
    — Minnah Arshad, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The school performance of the older girls has plummeted.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the country plummets to number 62 for those under 30.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Disney’s stock plummeted by more than 13 percent at the time.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The tire that plummeted damaged at least one car in an airport parking lot.
    — Mary Schlangenstein, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The plateau sits above steep canyons and arroyos that plummet to the valley floor and the Rio Grande, New Mexico's primary artery.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In turn, the average savings rate for U.S. households has plummeted since 2022, the Fed said last month.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Shares of food company Hormel plummeted, setting them on course for their worst day in more than a decade.
    — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In the three years Tritton helmed the retail giant, its stock price plummeted almost 50%.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • Jobs have been cut in half, and investment and state revenue have plummeted.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • The temperature plummeted like a ride on the Zambezi Zinger.
    — Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That plummets to 12% for Haley, 11% for DeSantis and single digits for the rest.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The search has been called off as six people who plummeted from a Baltimore bridge are presumed dead.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The spire burned and crashed down, punching giant, jagged holes into the vaults and sending gobs of molten metal and charred beams plummeting below.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Fans sued for their money back, and ticket prices plummeted on the resale market.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Two cellphones that plummeted from the aircraft also were found in the vicinity.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The heart-racing element of surprise is kept as the audience doesn't get to see the creature that has caused the world's population to plummet in the films.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 17 July 2023

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