How to Use crater in a Sentence

crater

1 of 2 noun

• That would cause wheat supply to crater and prices to rise.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 June 2023
• In contrast, the trees on the other side of the crater are still intact, even with green leaves.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
• The blast tore a crater in Vitalii's skull that is as deep and broad as half a melon.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
• The crater had been cordoned off, but Milleron and Tor rushed past the barrier.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• The one that caused the meteor crater in Arizona was about 150 feet across.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The strike reduced the house to a vast crater blanketed with wreckage.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• The three volcanic craters on the island are the only such hiding places.
  — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• The machine rolled into and out of a crater as its cameras swiveled back and forth in search of threats.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Valles Marineris canyons are seen at the lower left, along with craters.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 June 2023
• The Eubanks pray and film social media clips next to a blast crater.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Such people would never have made it across the bomb craters to her school.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• In four to six months, it is scheduled to land on a small crater on the near side of the moon, called Shioli.
  — Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the first photo of the cooking post, Kylie posted a snap of two wells of flour with eggs nestled in the craters.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
• Water ice trapped at the bottoms of craters on the moon’s south pole could help support them.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• The lake is in the center of a crater roughly 1,000 feet in diameter.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• That power will help kids locate the rings of Saturn, the red spot on Jupiter, the craters on the Moon at night, and wildlife and birds during the day.
  — Jen McCaffery, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
• The damage included a deep crater in the courtyard, a large hole in the roof and pieces of debris scattered about the house.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
• That means staying well behind the car in front of you, enabling you to see the surface of the road ahead and react in time to avoid craters.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Is the duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) huddling in a giant bomb crater?
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The wreckage was scattered around a main crater, and there were signs of a fire after the crash, according to the report.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• Video of the aftermath shows a crater about 40 feet wide with debris scattered around it.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Likewise, craters could be used for blast shields, or as landing sites, or perhaps the base and walls of a habitat.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• People come from all over to swim, scuba dive, and paddle board in the crater's warm spring water.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
• Over the past three years, the helicopter traversed craters and took photos of regions that would have been hard to reach on the ground.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• The result is a robot that can’t be stymied by deep craters, icy terrain or small spaces.
  — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• There are shell craters hastily filled in and boarded up buildings waiting to be pulled down.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• So gently lower it onto the mound of potatoes to create a crater, and then turn it to unload.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2023
• Filled with cinder cones and craters, the area looked like it had been hit by both a volcanic eruption and a meteor strike.
  — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The town itself was in ruins: Satellite footage taken over the summer shows a moonscape of craters.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Foot traffic remained down in the last century, as little else lives in the crater that can be harvested or cut down.
  — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024

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crater

2 of 2 verb

• The deal cratered when neither party could agree on the final price.
• Stock prices cratered after the companies' merger.
• But in the past stocks and bonds didn’t usually crater at the same time.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• The stock market crashed in 1987, and the economy cratered.
  — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• The artillery, one of many seen in the country in the weeks prior, didn't just crater the sidewalk.
  — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
• Sales have cratered for years, with more nimble competitors on the rise.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• As the months have passed, one by one, Dershowitz’s broadsides against Boies and his allies have cratered.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• Shares of Tocagen cratered 78 percent to close at 93 cents a share Thursday.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
• That club cratered in May. The Cardinals went 9-18 and lost control of the division.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
• With that, prices would crater to below $10 per barrel.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
• But the stock has had a rocky year, with shares rising to $54 in February, only to crater to $16 by mid May.
  — David Dawkins, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• But the stock would certainly crater on any payout cut.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Passenger air travel has cratered in the past few weeks.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 17 Mar. 2020
• The labor market and consumer spending have yet to crater despite the Fed’s rate hikes.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• The market for such veteran hitters has cratered because of how those lines in the above chart have flipped.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Year after year, the price of solar has cratered faster than the experts predicted.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• Carr set a previous career high with 24 points in a win over Clemson on Dec. 2, only to crater against the Hawkeyes.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
• But the economy cratered, and Carlos lost his well-paying job.
  — Darlena Cunha, Marie Claire, 4 Nov. 2019
• Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes would finish the same game, but he was dealt an ankle sprain in the first half when the pocket cratered fast.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2019
• That’s the biggest dip and longest run of declines since the spring of 2020 when the onset of pandemic lockdowns led gas prices to crater.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
• But for a chef just starting out, a four-figure expense can crater his or her bottom line.
  — Hanna Raskin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• The far side has a much more rugged, densely cratered appearance compared to the large, smoother maria that dominate the side of the Moon facing Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
• The panic that sports TV rights fees could crater in light of cord-cutting and rising costs has subsided.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2019
• Scientists believe the moon of Jupiter—the third largest in the solar system—has the oldest, most cratered surface in the solar system.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• Musgrove pointed to the type of patience and pure trust few possess when things crater underneath you.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Real-estate values have cratered too, and the city’s debt has ballooned to almost 250% of its budget.
  — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• The tornado had cratered the roof and caused other structural damage.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Six minutes into the Max flight, the plane with passengers from nearly a dozen countries cratered into the ground about 40 miles from the airport.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
• Son famously lost about $70 billion during the dot-com bust, as startups cratered and his stock price crashed.
  — Pavel Alpeyev, Fortune, 18 May 2020
• That gloomy mood helps explain why bond yields have cratered around the world as jittery investors bet on more easy money from central banks.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 June 2019

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