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
  • Both have spent much of this campaign in what looked like free fall.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • That same urge appears when the market is in free fall.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • As the coronavirus spreads, stock prices have been in free fall.
    Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Biden's campaign was in a free fall over the past few weeks with his future in doubt.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • For the second year in a row, the Browns took an LSU defensive back who was in free fall.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • In a free fall Growing up 90 miles east of Houston in Port Arthur had its perks.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • 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 result was a second straight end-of-season free fall.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Waves of vertigo flood my head, and my stomach is in a free fall.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
  • 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 Sabres, who host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night, are in free fall.
    John Wawrow, ajc, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Clara Millen is in free fall, clinging to her job as a lifeline despite being in a state of complete burnout.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The economy was in free fall, and the hardliners were failing at the basic tasks of governance.
    Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2024

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