- present participle of plummet.
plummeting
Example Sentences
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Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said "plummeting teacher numbers and spiralling levels of school violence" had made it a difficult year for pupils.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And later: why Bitcoin’s plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
The proposal is spurring urgent responses from local governments faced with the prospect of plummeting tax revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the Need to Know newsletter, Barbara Kollmeyer explained how one veteran trader was buying energy stocks even as oil prices were plummeting.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Radio observations show two enormous clouds of hydrogen gas, enough to make millions of suns, plummeting out from the galactic core, as if a mild explosion happened there every now and then.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
