How to Use free fall in a Sentence
free fall
noun
- Sales were in free fall.
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In a free fall at 2-8, the rest is out of reach and has been.
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Oliver Thomas,
Forbes,
13 Nov. 2023
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The Warriors get eight more games to stop the free fall.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2024
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The sense of a city in free fall seemed to resonate with Chicagoans.
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Mark Berman,
Washington Post,
11 Mar. 2023
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But in the 10 days since the report, Adani stocks have been in free fall.
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Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
3 Feb. 2023
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The Sox are in what just might be a free fall and could use some new juice.
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BostonGlobe.com,
11 Aug. 2021
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The Dow is in free fall again and the blame, again, goes to the trade fight between the U.S. and China.
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Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
12 Apr. 2018
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But there are reasons why the Spurs (3-11) have been in free fall since.
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Andrew Greif,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2023
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And still the defense of a team in preplanned free fall might not be the NFL’s worst.
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Jonas Shaffer,
baltimoresun.com,
4 Oct. 2019
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Both have spent much of this campaign in what looked like free fall.
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New York Times,
9 Apr. 2021
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That same urge appears when the market is in free fall.
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Larry Light,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2021
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As the coronavirus spreads, stock prices have been in free fall.
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Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2020
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Last week the ruble and the Moscow stock market were in free fall.
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Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
28 Feb. 2022
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Back in space at the same time, the crew capsule is suspended in a free fall.
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BostonGlobe.com,
13 Oct. 2021
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At the time, Priceline shares were in free fall as a result of the dot-com meltdown.
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Paul R. La Monica,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2022
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Biden's campaign was in a free fall over the past few weeks with his future in doubt.
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Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
22 July 2024
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For the second year in a row, the Browns took an LSU defensive back who was in free fall.
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Scott Patsko,
cleveland,
26 Apr. 2020
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Fight to keep your hips and shoulders square, then let your body free fall into the next rep.
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Jeff Tomko,
Men's Health,
16 May 2022
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And Kim Jong Un has to balance the fact that his economy is in free fall.
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Fox News,
12 June 2018
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In a free fall Growing up 90 miles east of Houston in Port Arthur had its perks.
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Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
1 Oct. 2020
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Watching the Dodgers and Giants slug it out only made Padres fans feel worse about the free fall of 2021.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2021
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The result was a second straight end-of-season free fall.
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Paul Sullivan,
chicagotribune.com,
7 Dec. 2019
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The Longhorns are in a free fall and the honeymoon with Steve Sarkisian's tenure is over.
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Erick Smith,
USA TODAY,
16 Nov. 2021
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The atoms are placed in a vacuum and are in free fall due to gravity.
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Dhananjay Khadilkar,
Ars Technica,
16 Dec. 2022
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That streak, combined with the Chicago Cubs’ free fall, put them five games ahead of the Cubs for a wild-card spot with five to play.
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2019
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But few people are aware that so many bee species are in free fall, and even fewer seem to care.
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Hannah Nordhaus,
WSJ,
12 July 2018
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Then came the free fall—a collapse that sucked out 8.6% of the broad market’s value in a 10-day gasp (as of the writing of this note).
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Clifton Leaf,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2018
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Waves of vertigo flood my head, and my stomach is in a free fall.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2024
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Trump Media & Technology Group stock is in a free fall (again).
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Rocio Fabbro,
Quartz,
23 Sep. 2024
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The image is of a Boston fire-escape collapse: a woman and child in free fall, seconds before the woman’s death.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2024
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