How to Use nosedive in a Sentence

nosedive

noun

• The plane went into a nosedive.
• The stock market took a nosedive.
• 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
• But right around the Oppenheimer-is-long jibe, things took a sharp nosedive.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024