How to Use free fall in a Sentence

free fall

noun
  • Sales were in free fall.
  • In a free fall at 2-8, the rest is out of reach and has been.
    Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Warriors get eight more games to stop the free fall.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The sense of a city in free fall seemed to resonate with Chicagoans.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • But in the 10 days since the report, Adani stocks have been in free fall.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The Sox are in what just might be a free fall and could use some new juice.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But there are reasons why the Spurs (3-11) have been in free fall since.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • That same urge appears when the market is in free fall.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Last week the ruble and the Moscow stock market were in free fall.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Back in space at the same time, the crew capsule is suspended in a free fall.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • At the time, Priceline shares were in free fall as a result of the dot-com meltdown.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Fight to keep your hips and shoulders square, then let your body free fall into the next rep.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 16 May 2022
  • Watching the Dodgers and Giants slug it out only made Padres fans feel worse about the free fall of 2021.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The Longhorns are in a free fall and the honeymoon with Steve Sarkisian's tenure is over.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The atoms are placed in a vacuum and are in free fall due to gravity.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Bird numbers are in free fall in much of the world, in part because of a changing climate.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
  • If the first half of 2023 was a low point in the news business’s free fall, the second half is shaping up to be the era of the autopsy.
    Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • The Grizzlies have been in free fall since Adams’ injury, losing eight of their past nine.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
  • This is not the first time China has let a rocket free fall back toward Earth.
    Elizabeth Kuhr, NBC News, 31 July 2022
  • The Sox continued their free fall, losing for the sixth time in seven games.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • The match snapped a six-game winless streak for Orlando, stopping the team’s free fall in the league standings.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The Bears are in a free fall right now having lost each of their last six games, but Justin Fields is a variable that can turn this matchup volatile.
    Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Wasn’t Michigan in complete free fall with new cases a few weeks ago?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • Stay-at-home orders sent the economy into a free fall at the start of the pandemic, but the shock proved short.
    Shane Shifflett, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • Prices have soared and the value of wages has dropped as the national currency, pegged to the dollar for 30 years, is in free fall.
    Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • Since winning the election, the lira has been in free fall, plummeting by more than 15%.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • This free fall in the legal department at the FDA is unimaginable.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • The economy is in free fall and the weak coalition government seems helpless to stop it.
    Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
  • China’s move against crypto sent the price of Bonfire into free fall.
    New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Depp blames Heard's 2018 op-ed for spinning his career into free fall.
    Ben Finley, ajc, 22 May 2022

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