Sentence examples for figures plunged from inspiring English sources

THRILLER heroes usually fall into one of two categories: plucky everyman figures, plunged into murderous intrigues, or professional killers such as Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Sales of action figures plunged to $702 million in 1987, from $1.06 billion a year earlier.

By the time babies are four months old, the figures plunge to 7 per cent, giving the UK one of the worst breastfeeding records in the developed world.

The densely woven carpet that Firefighter Cutting was staring at showed two commercial jets slamming into two tall buildings, creating fiery explosions, and little stick figures plunging headfirst.

Instead of comparing ourselves to real and imagined figures, plunging into jealousy and beating down on our inadequacies, we would do well to surround ourselves with positive cheerleaders, who remind ourselves of our strengths so that we have the tools to face our weaknesses.

It was a long minute, filled with moaning and horror-struck, averted eyes, as the struggling figure plunged earthward.

That figure plunged to around 50percentt in a Times survey taken a month after the terrorist attacks.

Though 36% of people overall participated in such retirement plans, that figure plunged to 8% for those in the bottom 25% of the income ladder.

But for those with children under 3, that figure plunges to 32 percent.

The opening, defining image is of a samurai figure plunging a sword into his own belly.

The only national titles to suffer declines were dailystar.co.uk, which sank 8.7% on August to 10.6 million monthly unique browsers, with the daily average figure plunging 20% to just over 556,000.