How to Use nosedive in a Sentence

nosedive

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  • The starters have been at the forefront of this nosedive.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • With last year’s late-season nosedive, the Orioles had lost 45 of their past 57 games.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
  • Even with Friday's nosedive, the stock is up roughly 87% from this time last year.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But what happens if the market takes a nosedive and Tether has to mark down all that gold and Bitcoin?
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 May 2023
  • Rosen matched his hype while leading to the Bruins to a 4-0 start before his career took a steep nosedive.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • In Tuesday’s nine innings could be seen a painful summation of the Padres nosedive in 2019.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2019
  • If Nate Solder bolts in free agency, the Patriots would love to see Brown nosedive to them.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 8 Mar. 2018
  • From the mid-1990s until very recently, the quality of the films in which De Niro appeared took a nosedive.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2019
  • When the 2008 financial crash hits, business at the club Destiny works at nosedives.
    — Beandrea July, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Loop the loops, unexpected spins, and sudden nosedives were all part of the treatment.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2017
  • That means that the fees investment bankers collect have taken a nosedive from their 2021 records.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
  • His public image also took a nosedive after a series of run-ins with the law.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Traffic in and out of the San Antonio airport has taken a nosedive.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The financial markets closed on an upswing after one of the worst nosedives since 1987.
    — Time, 14 Mar. 2020
  • But on a spinning disk with a head that needs to move in order to read the different bits of each file, performance can take a nosedive.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2018
  • But none of those headaches compared to the nosedive of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The nosedive wiped out more than $5 billion of the company's market value, hurting US mom-and-pop investors in the process.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 21 May 2020
  • All agree the temperature will take a nosedive on Christmas Eve.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2020
  • After climbing steeply for three to five seconds, the plane went into a sudden nosedive.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That’s in spite of its eighth and final season, which took a historic critical nosedive.
    — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartzy, 16 July 2019
  • Not that a lot of people will be sticking around waiting for the inevitable to happen-- ratings for last night's episode took a nosedive when compared to the premiere a week ago.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The pandemic and the ensuing crash in oil prices hit the country hard, and Putin’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive.
    — Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The slide follows a 48 percent nosedive last week that was accompanied by a plunge in the company’s bonds.
    — Ranjeetha Pakiam, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2017
  • Edinson Volquez was knocked around early in a 7-2 loss to the Dodgers as the Marlins continued their nosedive in a season that’s fast turning to ruin.
    — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 19 May 2017
  • Unlike some of its peers left in the dust of digital juggernaut Amazon.com, Nordstrom hasn't seen sales nosedive.
    — Bloomberg News, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike some of its peers left in the dust of digital juggernaut Amazon.com Inc., Nordstrom hasn’t seen sales nosedive.
    — Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • During the pandemic, the flight attendant’s job took a nosedive.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 May 2024
  • That climb was followed by an even more dramatic nosedive the following year.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • And your blood sugar takes a dramatic nosedive — dragging your ability to think straight right along with it.
    — Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The nosedive came a day after American disclosed that Vasu Raja, its chief commercial officer, would depart in June.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 May 2024

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