Sample Sentences for
plummet
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    The temperature plummeted.
    plummeted = dropped a lot suddenly
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    Failure warnings were already flashing on my display, and my hit-point counter was starting to plummet.  (source)
    plummet = decrease rapidly
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    As 1945 begins, temperatures plummet further.  (source)
    plummet = falls
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    Oddly, its battle cry cut off sharply instead of fading as it plummeted to the depths beyond.  (source)
    plummeted = fell
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    The new uglies screamed in unison, scattering away from the flailing body plummeting toward them.  (source)
    plummeting = falling
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    Objects, whether planets or apples, fall or orbit, not because of a gravitational energy, but because they plummet into the silky folds of spacetime—like into the ripples on a pond—created by those of higher mass.  (source)
    plummet = fall
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    My heart plummets in my chest until it bounces around my toes.†  (source)
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    He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures.  (source)
    plummeted = fell
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    "STOP!" he yelled, whacking the dashboard and the windshield, but they were still plummeting, the ground flying up toward them "WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!"  (source)
    plummeting = falling
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    He described the storm, and the plummet of the Cloud-cutter onto the deck of the Ave Maria.†  (source)
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    The boy had given him two fresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before; but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness.†  (source)
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    Up in the sky, two more dactyls folded their wings, collapsing into small dark shapes that plummeted toward the ground.  (source)
    plummeted = moved downward very quickly
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    I swear the Gamemakers are progressively ratcheting up the temperature in the daytime and sending it plummeting at night.  (source)
    plummeting = falling rapidly
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    Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.  (source)
    plummet = the metal weight of a plumb line (used to measure water depth)
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    But this rough magic I here abjure; And, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,— To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.  (source)
    plummet = the metal weight of a plumb line used to measure the depth of water
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