plummet

Object

• percent: Of phone tag plummeted percent over budget million in.
• temperature: In the meantime his son Sam ventures to NYC and gets stuck due to severe weather - tornadoes, flooding and plummeting temperatures.
• price: A new report by Oxfam has uncovered the devastating effects of plummeting coffee prices on some of the world's poorest farmers.
• foot: As the plane plummeted five hundred feet, a passenger screamed, ' I'm going to die!
• %: Disney's return to shareholders plummeted 10 % over that period.
• sale: The second study, focusing on the European market for motion controls, reports that sales plummeted by 7.4 % during 2002.

Subject

• %: By August 2004, car crime had plummeted by 82 %.

Preposition: towards

• ground: All at once they saw it plummet toward the ground.

Preposition: into

• sea: The Northern Lighthouse Board helicopter plummeted into the sea around 11.20am on Friday.

Modifying Another Word

• suddenly: Catching everyone by surprise, the temperature suddenly plummeted to zero.
• rapidly: By 22.00hrs with the temperature rapidly plummeting into minus figures, the draw of warm sleeping bags ( in cars!
• down: Air rushed up to meet him as he plummeted down down down into astronomical blackness.
• then: It quickly passes through the stomach wall causing blood sugar levels to rise, then plummet.
• back: Whilst he is there the stars go out, and all the satellites in orbit plummet back to Earth.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: The reef itself is only 800m across, but its stunning reef walls plummet down to 70m or more.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: There are some black runs that plummet down the sides of high bowls of deep powder.

Used with why or when

• when: Viewer figures plummet when they are on, they cannot remain on the main channels.

Noun used with modifier

• divorce: Divorce Rate Plummets As More Americans Shack Up Instead of Getting Married More Americans are taking " til death do us part " seriously.
• rate: May I suggest you revert to the old site as soon as possible, before yo start losing recommendations and your hit rate plummets.

Preposition: by

• %: By August 2004, car crime had plummeted by 82 %.