plummeting
Speech parts
1. plummeting - Noun
2. plummeting - Verb
Meaning
plummeting
present participle of plummet
plummeting (plural plummetings)
A violent or dramatic fall.
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Examples
Picture this: A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.
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.
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
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.
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
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.