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Example sentences for "plummeting"

Lexicographically close words:
plumelike; plumes; pluming; plummet; plummeted; plummets; plummy; plumose; plump; plumped
  1. Instantly the Spitfires broke formation and Allison went plummeting down, his Merlin roaring wide open.

  2. Stan sucked in a deep breath and looked down at the plummeting Heinkel.

  3. Stan opened up and saw an aileron flutter away from the plummeting fighter.

  4. The gunners on board the battleship were taking notice and frantically trying to swing guns to bear upon the plummeting Hawk.

  5. Or a young fellow plummeting along the highway from the west will belatedly heed the words of Horace Greeley, and will splash gravel in all directions as he whirls into our driveway.

  6. Another time there was an enormous oil tanker, Mrs. Clark related, which turned sharply off the highway to avoid hitting a child, and came plummeting up to within fifteen feet of the office before the driver could stop it.

  7. Hundreds of knights and men-at-arms were plummeting down this perilous slope because he had told them to.

  8. She felt like a bird in flight suddenly struck by an arrow and plummeting to earth.

  9. Chow, Doc, and the girls watched his plummeting figure fade from view.

  10. A reverse twirl sent him plummeting toward the bottom again.

  11. Ten minutes later the sleek seacopter, its searchlight off to avoid detection, was plummeting downward through water that changed before their eyes from greenish blue to a deep-gray gloom.

  12. At the same moment Kalus heard a loosened stone sent plummeting to the bottom of the canyon.

  13. But in spite of all his caution he slipped, and found himself plummeting downward through illusory darkness, a silent scream ringing in his ears.

  14. Bending over he seized the first of the gleaming cubes and hurled it over the edge of the crater, saw it start plummeting down.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plummeting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    break; cascade; cataract; chute; collapse; crash; cut; debacle; deciduous; declension; declination; decline; declining; deflation; defluxion; depreciation; descending; descent; dive; down; downfall; downgrade; downhill; downpour; downturn; downward; drooping; drop; fall; falling; foundering; gravitation; inclination; lowering; plummet; plummeting; plunge; plunging; pounce; rapids; reduction; sag; sagging; setting; sinking; slash; slump; stoop; submerging; subsiding; swoop; tottering; tumbledown; waterfall