Sentence examples for plummets from inspiring English sources

When the temperature plummets and the ground is frozen, there is not much to tempt even a hardy gardener outside, but the warm fug of a heated glasshouse is extremely alluring.

Now, when the temperature plummets to -55C, men are known to do strange things, including, as Gold Rush poems suggest, set themselves on fire to avoid dying of cold.

The effects on Greece would be deep and immediate, as money flees banks and Greek firms' euro-denominated debts skyrocket as a new drachma plummets in value.

The Senkakus are closer to Japan than to China, but they lie on the edge of China's continental shelf, just as it plummets into the Okinawa Trough, 2,300 metres (7,500 feet) at its deepest.

Once temperatures rise enough, agricultural productivity plummets and humankind is in real trouble.

Sunset strip"The Mall Pall: Have America's Biggest Shopping Centres Lost Their Allure?"Knowledge@WhartonAs American consumer spending plummets, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and the Verde Group, a consulting firm, explain why the iconic shopping mall is likely to suffer.

As big clients' interest in traditional broking services wanes and the cost of insurance plummets, the brokers are doing their best to collect advisory fees along with sales commissions.

Similarly, itemised phone bills let people monitor their spending more easily.As the cost of storing data plummets and the power of analytic tools improves, there is little likelihood that enthusiasm for data mining, in all its forms, will diminish.

One is listlessness and drift, as discipline crumbles, morale plummets and ideas dry up.

Passive investors, however, don't do this; they don't even sell out the firm unless it is so badly managed that its market capitalisation plummets to the point where it drops out of the index.

For a while, the earth's biodiversity plummets.