plummet in English

noun
1
a steep and rapid fall or drop.
His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins.
2
a plumb or plumb line.
With a heavy plummet , I plumb the depth and set the float so that about half the float's length is protruding above the surface.
verb
1
fall or drop straight down at high speed.
a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully

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1. What caused the balloon to plummet?

2. Just watch your electricity bills plummet!

3. Self-confidence can plummet even further if acne develops.

4. And Forbes began to plummet in the polls.

5. Stocks that plummet to half their value aren't losers, they're'non - performers '.

6. An excellent rice harvest caused prices to plummet by 40 %.

7. If foreigners were to stop accumulating new dollars, the dollar's value would plummet.

8. We'd revise to rewire the building, re plummet re - plumb it.

9. The prices of the shares may ~ or plummet within one day.

10. The thief will suffer when prices plummet with the next harvest.

11. That could be alarming if markets dry up and asset values plummet.

12. Temperatures during the long Mercurian night would probably plummet to below zero.

13. An accountant is rooted to the spot as sheets of glass plummet towards her.Sentencedict.com

14. Numerous downsized banks, insurers and retail chains have seen their customers' satisfaction plummet.

15. No one wants to hold a currency that they expect to plummet in value.

16. The global market for Compressors & Vacuum Pumps is expected to plummet by -6%

17. The rope snapped, causing the climber to plummet several hundred feet down the mountain.

18. It doesn't matter how fit the rats are; when they leave their feet, their LPL levels plummet.

19. Drop! drop! some of our friends are screaming, daring him to plummet headfirst into the dangerous rubble.

20. Shares could plummet under plans by the government regulator to split the huge monopoly into two.

21. Temperatures plummet to minus sixty degrees or lower at night even at the equator in midsummer.

22. Photo: Two news helicopters plummet to earth after colliding midair over a park in Phoenix, Arizona.

23. 16 Drop! drop! some of our friends are screaming, daring him to plummet headfirst into the dangerous rubble.

24. This has caused confidence to plummet in recent months after a decade - long boom in commercial property.

25. They have seen crime rates and their feelings of physical insecurity rise, and their overall quality of life plummet.

26. Measured by Jehovah’s standard or his plummet, Israel as a wall had leaned too far from the perpendicular.

27. And, just like a spent rocket, the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise.

28. This year, that amount could plummet to $ 1 million, a serious blow to the already financially struggling tribe.

29. A drought caused agricultural production to plummet 11 % in 19 driving up food prices and retarding overall economic growth.

30. Except in the unlikely event that rates soon plummet, it could cost the bank up to £100m this year.

31. While 4200 meters of Hawaii's Mauna Kea sit above sea level, its sides plummet beneath the waves for another 5800 meters.

32. "Aplomb" can also mean "perpendicularity" in French and comes from the phrase a plomb, meaning "perpendicularly or literally "according to the plummet." A plummet is a lead weight that is attached to a line and used to determine vertical alignment.

33. It can be found high up on windswept mountain slopes, where temperatures can plummet as much as 60° F [35°C] in just 24 hours.

34. You follow a drop of your own sweat and plummet with it becoming a river, a flash flood, a waterspout, a hurricane.

35. 17 You follow a drop of your own sweat and plummet with it becoming a river, a flash flood, a waterspout,(www.Sentencedict.com) a hurricane.

36. The global market for Compressors & Vacuum Pumps is expected to plummet by -6% in the year 2020 and thereafter recover and grow to reach …

37. Since the impact of the financial tsunami, the sales of the apparel industry plummet. The inventory sharp increase, the capital turnover of enterprise flow slowly.

38. With the rise in the market now halted, uncontrolled selling began in August, which caused the stock to plummet to £150 by the end of September.

39. Of course, mountains are not so hospitable at higher elevations where atmospheric pressure and oxygen levels drop, solar radiation increases, and gale- force winds cause temperatures to plummet.

40. Bathurst has seen rental vacancy rates plummet and is becoming one of the most i8n demand regional city’s to live in Photo: David Roma “You can have a …

41. From the late 1990s through the middle of the 2000 decade, a multi-year drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin caused water levels in Lake Powell to plummet.

42. That maneuver is known as Aerobraking, and this month ESA announced some of the final results sent back by Venus Express before its final plummet to the planet’s surface.

43. Bushwhackers demonstrates that the guerrilla war in Missouri was not just an opportunity to settle antebellum feuds, nor was it some collective plummet by society into a state of chaotic bloodshed

44. In connection with the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel is represented as having in hand a plummet, literally, “the stone [or, weight], the tin,” according to the Masoretic text.

45. He may have used a square, a plummet, a chalk line, a hatchet, a saw, an adze, a hammer, a mallet, chisels, a drill that he worked by pulling a bow back and forth, various glues, and perhaps some nails, though they were costly.

46. And so we all remember as children, the tiniest little thing -- and we see it on the faces of our children -- the teeniest little thing can just rocket them to these heights of just utter adulation, and then the next teeniest little thing can cause them just to plummet to the depths of despair.

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