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Synonyms & Antonyms for plummet
Synonyms: Verb
crash, crater, decline, descend, dip, dive, drop, fall, lower, nose-dive, plunge, sink, skid, tumble
Antonyms: Verb
arise, ascend, lift, mount, rise, soar, spike, up
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Examples of plummet in a Sentence
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The acrobat plummeted into the net. The car plummeted to the bottom of the canyon. The satellite plummeted into the ocean. Stock prices plummeted 40 percent during the scandal. The TV show has plummeted in the ratings. Temperatures are expected to plummet this weekend. The town's population plummets when the students leave for the summer.
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Over the last 20 years, more than 1 million professionals joined unions, pushing the white-collar total to an all-time high of 6.18 million — even as the number of unionized blue-collar workers plummeted by some 3 million over the same period. — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston’s middle class is getting crushed — does anyone care?," 30 Aug. 2019 Spyglass Cedar Creek drilled 40 natural gas wells near Buffalo and then abandoned them after natural gas prices plummeted. — USA TODAY, "Burro bandits, sugarcane shake-up, naked bike ride: News from around our 50 states," 26 Aug. 2019 Shell, along with other major oil and gas companies like Exxon, sees plastic as one avenue for growth as natural gas prices plummet—and, longer-term, as a way to weather the world’s slow rejection of fossil fuels as an energy source. — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, "Virgin plastic pellets are the biggest pollution disaster you’ve never heard of," 19 Aug. 2019 Thursday's sell-off came after US markets plummeted in the worst day for stocks there of 2019. — Laura He, CNN, "Asian markets roiled by recession fears after Wall Street sell-off," 14 Aug. 2019 This will be a bitter pill to swallow for Silva as his stock has plummeted since his move to Milan from Porto in 2017, when he was regarded as one of the best young strikers and the future of Portugal's national team. — SI.com, "Report: Andre Silva Leaves Milan Training Camp as Move to Monaco Almost Done," 21 July 2019 One person died in Clear Creek after a vehicle plummeted into the water in Clear Creek Canyon. — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, "One dead after vehicle crashes into Clear Creek Canyon," 14 July 2019 An Arizona driver escaped injuries but was taken into custody after a cactus plummeted through his car windshield Wednesday. — Fox News, "Giant cactus pierces car windshield on Arizona highway, driver miraculously unhurt," 11 July 2019 More concerning to the Kremlin are those plummeting United Russia numbers. — Ian Bremmer, Time, "What the Protests in Russia Mean for President Putin," 31 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'plummet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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