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fall or decrease suddenlyMuch more rarely, plummet can reference the metal weight of a plumb line. (A plumb line is a cord from which a metal weight is suspended to indicate a straight line downward, or to measure depth.)
- Our spirits plummeted when the other team scored with less than a minute in the game.
plummeted = dropped a lot suddenly
- The car rolled down the hill and plummeted off the cliff.
- The stock market plummeted.
- The temperature plummeted.
- I swear the Gamemakers are progressively ratcheting up the temperature in the daytime and sending it plummeting at night.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- I kept expecting one of them to snap and send me plummeting to my death.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Then the rotten old floor collapsed, and the boys plummeted into the basement.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- 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.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- As 1945 begins, temperatures plummet further.Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Up in the sky, two more dactyls folded their wings, collapsing into small dark shapes that plummeted toward the ground.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Saved you, I'd think, holding their souls in midair as the rest of their being—their physical shells—plummeted to the earth.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- Laila's heart plummeted.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Alyss Heart, holding tight to Hatter Madigan, plummeted toward the surface of the water below.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- The new uglies screamed in unison, scattering away from the flailing body plummeting toward them.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- I looked up, saw the kite plummeting toward us.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- Aria's stomach plummeted.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- He pulled himself upward, pushed again—he was higher now than Lina had been—but suddenly his hands slid and he came plummeting down.Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- "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!"J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- The soap plummeted downward toward the truck, landing on the edge of the tarp, and sliding downward into the cargo bay just as the traffic light turned green.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Now he plummeted downward toward a roiling river and savage rocks; but a cloud came between him and the ground as he fell, and caught him, and carried him away.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
plummeted = fell straight down
plummeted = dropped in value suddenly
plummeted = dropped a lot suddenly
plummeting = falling rapidly
plummeting = falling
plummeted = fell
plummeted = fell
plummet = falls
plummeted = moved downward very quickly
plummeted = fell rapidly
plummeted = fell
plummeted = fell rapidly
plummeting = falling
plummeting = falling rapidly
plummeted = fell
plummeting = falling
plummeting = falling
plummeted = fell
plummeted = fell straight down
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