nose-dive

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How to use nose-dive in a sentence

  • We were almost sure that was no atmosphere there—which meant we'd nose dive into the rocks at five thousand miles an hour.

  • He was in the clouds by the time I located him, and rapidly going out of control into a spinning nose-dive.

    Down the Yellowstone | Lewis R. Freeman
  • In fact, lots of pilots thought that when once you got into a spinning nose dive there was no way of coming out of it.

    Outwitting the Hun | Pat O'Brien
  • The last time he had seen me I was going down to earth with a bullet in my face and my machine doing a spinning nose dive.

    Outwitting the Hun | Pat O'Brien

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