plunge

Example Sentences

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Maybe this can be a fluke one-year plunge to the bottom and the climb back up can begin, aided by coaches who recognize their job is to teach lessons in basketball, life and college preparation.

From Los Angeles Times

Clear skies on Saturday night brought plunging temperatures as England and Wales registered their coldest night of winter so far.

From BBC

At the same time, he said, the hiring rate has “plunged like a hot knife though butter.”

From MarketWatch

Then, when demand slowed, customers would end up overstocked, prices would plunge, and memory makers would fall on hard times.

From Barron's

Yemen's civil war broke out in 2014 and has plunged the already impoverished country into years of deadly violence and one of the world's worst hunger crises.

From BBC