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verb

plummet

CEFR C1

to fall or drop suddenly and steeply

In a sentence

Six example sentences with plummet, each labelled with its topic.

  • Applications for building permits plummeted from nine hundred a month to under two hundred once the new zoning rules took effect.

    Architecture

  • The temperature plummeted twenty degrees in a single hour as our bus climbed toward the mountain pass.

    Travel

  • Prices for the painter's canvases plummeted at auction after two of his best known works were exposed as forgeries.

    Art

  • The stock plummeted twenty percent in an hour after the company admitted its sales figures had been overstated.

    Finance

  • His shooting percentage plummeted after the injury, and the coach quietly moved him to the bench.

    Basketball

  • Daily signups plummeted the week a competitor launched a free tier, and the founders spent the weekend rewriting the pricing page.

    Startups

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