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plummeting

Speech parts

1. plummeting - Noun

2. plummeting - Verb

Meaning

plummeting

present participle of plummet

plummeting (plural plummetings)

A violent or dramatic fall.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Picture this: A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree. Sheri S. Tepper

Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure. Rick Riordan

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? Anne Rice

The mirror plummeting toward the surface of Ganymede-toward his greenhouse, his soybeans, his life's work-hadn't chosen anything. It was a victim of cause and effect, the same as everything else. Daniel Abraham

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing. Janet Yellen

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together. Rush Limbaugh

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