How to Use free fall in a Sentence

free fall

noun
Definition of free fallnext
  • Both have spent much of this campaign in what looked like free fall.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Its economy is in free fall, and its currency has lost ninety per cent of its value.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Albert Pujols’ career total in this statistic has been in free fall for years now.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • With few exceptions, journalism as an industry is in free fall.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The Sabres, who host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night, are in free fall.
    — John Wawrow, ajc, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Ascent phase, transition to horizontal & control during free fall were good.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Much of this investment momentum began last year, after the coronavirus spread and the global economy went into free fall.
    — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Overall, Alabama’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers have been in free fall for the past few weeks.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Yet Gosling is riveting as a man in free fall, someone whose apologies for his bad behavior are beginning to wear thin on his co-workers, friends, and family.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • The coronavirus pandemic drastically cut the number of allowable tables and the industry went into a free fall.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The Chinese liquor giant’s stock is in free fall on the Shanghai stock exchange, declining over 22% in value since Feb. 10.
    — Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • While that doesn't seem all that concerning for a team that's built for the playoffs, this whole thing could become a free fall without LeBron or Anthony Davis in the lineup.
    — Andy Nesbitt, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The economy has been in free fall, and shortages are widespread.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024

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