Sentence examples for plunging downward from inspiring English sources

It depicts a skyscraper in flames and the full figure of a man plunging downward, or floating in midair, with a blue sky behind him.

But she nonetheless agreed to make "Gravity," knowing that Mr. Cuarón planned to spend day after day filming inside a jetliner that simulates weightlessness by climbing sharply and then plunging downward.

As Leigh Russo, an executive from Dumont, N.J., rode into Manhattan across the George Washington Bridge on Friday, a small plane flew low over the top of the bridge, nearly skimming it before plunging downward toward the Hudson River.

Instead of the river's natural course, the waters travel along what amount to giant staircases, channeled almost horizontally under mountains, through Ponderosa pine forests and along steep granite cliffs before being sent plunging downward in a rush, in order to turn the turbines that generate power.

Now, it makes a southern turn, plunging downward through Democratic strongholds of Montgomery County.

For a while we plunged downward, then turned onto a brand new stretch of road along the shoreline.

Over a lifetime, the portion that plunges downward toward the kidneys and legs the abdominal aorta can become weakened by disease in the vessel wall.

An army of computer-projected scarab beetles swarmed from the wall and threatened to overrun the roller coaster, which abruptly backed up and plunged downward.

Spiritually, it plunged downward and barely paused for breath, as these fragments prove: **{:.break one} ** Men we once honored share a crooked eye.

The subway car, which has been chugging along over the bay, plunges downward with a jerk, as if it's headed straight for the bottom.

Wherever continents are bordered by deep-sea trench systems, as in the Pacific Ocean, the ocean floor is plunged downward, underthrusting the continents and ultimately reentering and dissolving in the Earth's mantle from which it originated.