Sentence examples for plunged downwards from inspiring English sources

I was also left with a bruised forehead from smashing upwards into the roof as we plunged downwards.

This summer is set to be slightly less deadly that the last, for the first time: the level of violence in the south has plunged downwards.

A second witness, Brian Stewart, an electric production operator, 41, from Glasgow, said he heard the helicopter's engine cutting out before it plunged downwards.

Throw your family off a cliff into the abyss of an abandoned, water-filled quarry in one of two ways: fly through the air on a 490-metre zipwire at up to 40mph, or be slowly winched 50 metres above the lake on a giant swing and then plunged downwards.

The 80-pound raft became what police described as "separated from the helicopter" and plunged downwards to the Miami streets.

Aboard the research vessel Tangaroa, spatial ecologist Kim Goetz seizes the moment before the tide turns, and sends an acoustic recorder plunging downwards.

When she hears of her mother's death, she feels "as if I'm at the highest point on a swing, suspended in the moment when you feel weightless, for a second before plunging downwards".

"The Colombians have to know that Argentina is always up here," his right hand pointing to his head, before plunging downwards to his chest, "and the Colombians down here".

These are known locally as the Bitches and are the playground of much more experienced kayakers than I. Twice a day, the flow speeds up dramatically and big waves and eddies form around the rocks and the water plunges downwards through the gaps.

This sequence uses spare graphics of the style employed by the "mad men" of the title (a self-ascription of cynically self-congratulatory Madison Avenue advertising executives of the 1950s and 60s) to show a white-shirted, dark-suited man plunging downwards in mute supplication – arms outstretched, legs akimbo – past the cubism of sparsely limned skyscrapers.

They had to turn to the right, and then make ten or fifteen steps forward, but they got there so quickly that, losing their balance, they almost went plunging downwards: they were standing at the edge of an enormous pit, approximately three metres wide and five long, at the bottom of which they glimpsed Grigorescu as he worked, deliberately.