Plummet
plummet (verb) - decrease quickly by a large amount
returns plummeted
profits plummeted
house prices plummet
stocks plummeted
the price plummeted
sales plummeted
enthusiasm plummeted
revenues plummeted
plummeted by a third
standards plummeted
property prices plummet
popularity plummeted
population plummeted
school grades plummet
the shares remained hovering in uncertainty, ready to plummet
the shares were expected to plummet
the stock index plummeted
standing plummeted
values plummet
have plummeted over the last year
will see their monthly bill plummet
rumours caused prices to plummet
fears caused prices to plummet
plummet into large-scale death from malnutrition
imports plummet
credibility plummets
Example sentences:
* "Mahogany imports plummet."
* "Until a successor was offically named, the shares would remain hovering in uncertainty, ready to plummet.
* "Rumours of a significant sale originating in the Middle East in March caused prices to plummet.
* "Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period, caused prices to plummet."
* "Since the returns on bank savings have plummeted, investors will be searching desperately for new avenues of investment and shares and property will certainly be high on the list."
* "Hotel values have plummeted over the last year.
* "Overnight temperatures could plummet as low as -10C (14?F)."
* "As house prices plummet, the new breed of renters escape the danger of falling into debt traps and save their spare cash for the future."
* "Charities feel the pinch as gifts plummet."
* "More than 3.5 million families will see their monthly bill plummet by an average of 30 baht as cuts in interest rates are passed on by building societies."
* "The share price promptly plummeted."
* "The price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year."
* "British standing in Washington plummeted."
* "So many men volunteered to take redundancy at Broughton that the average age of staff in the department plummeted and five vacancies arose."
* "The volume of foreign exchange transactions plummeted."
* "After the failure to win funding for the project, enthusiasm plummeted."
* "Sales of polythene and PVC, which had been two of ICI's mainstay products, had suddenly plummeted."
* "Share trading collapsed, the gold price plummeted and the black market for dollars vanished."
* "Tokyo stocks plummeted before and after the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate from 4.25% to 5.25%, the fourth increase in ten months."
* "The firm's revenues plummeted by a third from last year's level."
* Within a couple of years the standards simply plummeted because they simply could not cope.
* "Property prices are down around 30-35 per cent from the high of 1988, and for waterside locations have plummeted by 40 per cent, says Dai Jenkins of Gribble, Booth & Taylor, who have branches in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset."
* "Her personal popularity plummeted as a consequence of the new policies."
* "Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century."
* "His child's school grades plummeted."
* The exchange rate has plummeted.
* "The idea of boiler inspections caught on and boiler explosion rates plummeted."
* "On April 2 share prices fell by almost 2,000 points as the Nikkei Average index plummeted by 1,987.30 points to close at 28,002.07 (compared with a record high of 38,915.87 on Dec. 29, 1989)."
* "According to the Save The Children Fund the country was on the edge of famine and was about to plummet into large-scale death from malnutrition."
* "A spokesman for the Council for the Protection of Rural England has claimed that if the Treasury refuse to foot the bill then the government's environmental credibility will plummet."
* "She felt a plummet of misery.
* "He felt a swooping, irrational plummet of disappointment."
* "Her stomach seemed to plummet."
* "Shares were expected to plummet, and with Aerospace ripe for takeover, Rover would have been the first to be sold off.
* "Certain sectors may suffer in a bad year, for instance, salt sales may plummet if the UK has a mild winter."
* "Now it is the turn of Germany, cashing in as the pound plummets."
