plunging back

Example Sentences

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The companion star travels far from the system before plunging back through the dust-filled inner region.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

A Pittsburgh company, Astrobotic Technology, gave it a shot last month, but was derailed by a fuel leak that resulted in the lander plunging back through Earth’s atmosphere and burning up.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

I hope only that what I have chosen to make does not offend and send us plunging back into triple-digit, record-breaking temperatures.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023

Speaking over video chat last month from his North Salem, N.Y., home, Menken reflected on bringing “Aladdin” to the stage, plunging back into “The Little Mermaid” and the endurance of his legacy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023

"I can't say the things you ought to know, without the things that no one ought to know," he explained in his halting English, plunging back now and then inadvertently into fluent French.

From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)