Sentence examples for plunging from inspiring English sources

The plunging temperatures saw Christmas Day night become the coldest night of the year so far, with minus 8.5C recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.In the days to come a brisk northwesterly wind could make it feel more like -11C to -14C across the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia, the Met Office said.

Economists were quick to explain away the downturn as a temporary blip, caused by February's freezing weather and the shutdown of shale gas rigs as a result of global oil prices plunging (they have since recovered some ground).

The blast of frigid air sent temperatures plunging as far south as the Texas panhandle, where balmy 70-degree weather fell into the teens overnight.

Since 2008 Nato has been openly sounding the alarm about plunging defence expenditure, and in his 2012 report the then secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned of "an ever greater military reliance on the United States, and growing asymmetries in capability in European allies.

The Greek economy shrank by 0.2% in the first three months of the year, plunging the troubled country back into recession following a 0.4% fall in GDP in the previous quarter.

That awful embarrassment of the financial sector plunging the country into economic disaster could have led to all sorts of unseemly demands for tax hikes on the über-rich.

"The sham regime in Kinshasa is constantly committing irresponsible acts of provocation, plunging the nation into a total impasse that could lead to widespread chaos," Tshisekedi said.

What followed were decades of mini-peaks and plunging troughs, seasoned by occasional international co-productions.