How to Use crater in a Sentence

crater

1 of 2 noun
  • Why does the moon have craters?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Up to the north, there is a very nice double crater.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Up to the north, there is a very nice double crater.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
  • On dark nights, the rim of the crater glows orange.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
  • That’s when Bruno became wedged in a crater.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2026
  • As a result, even small crater rims cast long shadows.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • The crater names are proposals at this point.
    — Ryan Brennan april 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
  • All three had been about 165 feet from the rim of the main crater.
    — Niniek Karmini, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • Such people would never have made it across the bomb craters to her school.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This sets Phil off and craters any progress made between the two sides.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • Therefore, for years, the impact crater idea seemed doomed.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Want to see the clue-white stars of the Pleiades and the craters of the moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The maria, prominent craters, plus walls, rays, and ridges can all be seen.
    — Big Think, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This crater would have a 100m pool of molten rock at its center.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The moon’s south pole is pockmarked with craters that are thought to be filled with water ice.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The deepest craters have filled with water to become ponds.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That site has been specially landscaped with craters, rocks and berms.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • No dust, almost no small craters, no tipping problems.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • Water ice trapped at the bottoms of craters on the moon’s south pole could help support them.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The blast tore a crater in Vitalii's skull that is as deep and broad as half a melon.
    — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The spacecraft will soar over craters and plains and may be able to spot dust features and lava flows.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • My personal life was a burning crater.
    — Marc Berman august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In contrast, the trees on the other side of the crater are still intact, even with green leaves.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The machine rolled into and out of a crater as its cameras swiveled back and forth in search of threats.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The large crater at the lower left is the Orientale basin.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The Eubanks pray and film social media clips next to a blast crater.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Satellite images show almost all these craters have now been filled, and at two sites, even repaved.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 31 May 2026
  • Want to explore the lunar maria and ancient craters of the moon for yourself?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The three volcanic craters on the island are the only such hiding places.
    — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • In black and white photos of the 1930s, the bays looked like craters on the moon.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025

crater

2 of 2 verb
  • The deal cratered when neither party could agree on the final price.
  • Stock prices cratered after the companies' merger.
  • But in the past stocks and bonds didn’t usually crater at the same time.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Sales have cratered for years, with more nimble competitors on the rise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • But for a chef just starting out, a four-figure expense can crater his or her bottom line.
    — Hanna Raskin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The artillery, one of many seen in the country in the weeks prior, didn't just crater the sidewalk.
    — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Mistakes can crater a career or cause a company’s share price to plummet overnight.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Year after year, the price of solar has cratered faster than the experts predicted.
    — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • The market for such veteran hitters has cratered because of how those lines in the above chart have flipped.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But the economy cratered, and Carlos lost his well-paying job.
    — Darlena Cunha, Marie Claire, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The energy sector, which collapsed when prices cratered three years ago, is booming once again.
    — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
  • The tornado had cratered the roof and caused other structural damage.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Musgrove pointed to the type of patience and pure trust few possess when things crater underneath you.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The labor market and consumer spending have yet to crater despite the Fed’s rate hikes.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • As the months have passed, one by one, Dershowitz’s broadsides against Boies and his allies have cratered.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • That gloomy mood helps explain why bond yields have cratered around the world as jittery investors bet on more easy money from central banks.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 June 2019
  • Kennedy, meanwhile, is finding other ways to crater the availability of shots.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Son famously lost about $70 billion during the dot-com bust, as startups cratered and his stock price crashed.
    — Pavel Alpeyev, Fortune, 18 May 2020
  • The panic that sports TV rights fees could crater in light of cord-cutting and rising costs has subsided.
    — John Talty | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Shares of Tocagen cratered 78 percent to close at 93 cents a share Thursday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The president blows the Afghanistan withdrawal; his poll numbers crater in response.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Real-estate values have cratered too, and the city’s debt has ballooned to almost 250% of its budget.
    — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • But history shows that when sentiment shifts, PLTR stock can crater.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes would finish the same game, but he was dealt an ankle sprain in the first half when the pocket cratered fast.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But the stock has had a rocky year, with shares rising to $54 in February, only to crater to $16 by mid May.
    — David Dawkins, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • That’s the biggest dip and longest run of declines since the spring of 2020 when the onset of pandemic lockdowns led gas prices to crater.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • Somewhere right now, one of your best people is asking an AI how to frame a restructuring announcement that won't crater morale.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • When governments withdraw support for vaccines, immunization rates can crater.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Six minutes into the Max flight, the plane with passengers from nearly a dozen countries cratered into the ground about 40 miles from the airport.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The Spurs struggling to score points could crater them to the bottom few teams of the Western Conference, especially if the defense doesn’t hold up.
    — Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021

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