How to Use free fall in a Sentence

free fall

noun

• Sales were in free fall.
• But how about just letting go, allowing yourself to drift into a free fall of ease for a couple of weeks?
  — Patricia Hampl, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• And Kim Jong Un has to balance the fact that his economy is in free fall.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2018
• Brock Osweiler worked with Gase in Denver, but his career has been in free fall for years.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• The Dodgers had a 91-36 record when their free fall began, a sign that even very good teams can endure terrible slumps.
  — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 23 May 2018
• Fans naturally want to blame Kreis for Orlando City’s free fall, but what about the players?
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2018
• LeBron continued to get better and better; Dwight’s career went into a free fall.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018
• Eventually the craft does take off, but never leaves the atmosphere, the better to contrive a parachute-free falling stunt for the big finish.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Exports have fallen in three of the first four months of the year, manufacturing orders are down and sentiment indicators are in free fall.
  — Nina Adam, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• The nation is in economic free fall and hungry migrants are fleeing his autocratic socialist regime.
  — Philip Brian Tabuas, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2018
• He is believed to be safe at the moment, but no one below the ownership level can take anything for granted as long as the Orioles remain in free fall.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2018
• Instead, to replicate the lurches and free falls of memory, Mr. Letts has scrambled the chronology.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• This situation represents a human in a gravitational field without a floor—such as a person in free fall or an astronaut in orbit.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• That seems to be what happened in Oregon, where marijuana companies are going out of business amid a cannabis glut and the accompanying free fall of prices.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
• This is one of Northern California’s jewels, a 129-foot waterfall with a matrix of free falls and cascades.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• 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
• And still the defense of a team in preplanned free fall might not be the NFL’s worst.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Both have spent much of this campaign in what looked like free fall.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• That same urge appears when the market is in free fall.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
• As the coronavirus spreads, stock prices have been in free fall.
  — Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
• 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
• However, his fortune has been in free fall ever since thanks to dwindling sales at LVMH.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 16 Oct. 2024
• Trump has slammed the administration for inflation during the past three years, while casting the economy in free fall.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024