How to Use free fall in a Sentence

free fall

noun
  • Sales were in free fall.
  • Both have spent much of this campaign in what looked like free fall.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In a free fall at 2-8, the rest is out of reach and has been.
    — Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Sox are in what just might be a free fall and could use some new juice.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The other sees a country in free fall.
    — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 6 May 2026
  • Her favorite part is the feeling of free fall.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But the free fall from first place can’t be forgotten.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The sense of a city in free fall seemed to resonate with Chicagoans.
    — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As the coronavirus spreads, stock prices have been in free fall.
    — Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
  • His campaign is in a free fall right now, with top staffers leaving.
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Biden's campaign was in a free fall over the past few weeks with his future in doubt.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • Faith in City Hall, always shaky, seems in free fall.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Fight to keep your hips and shoulders square, then let your body free fall into the next rep.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 16 May 2022
  • Waves of vertigo flood my head, and my stomach is in a free fall.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
  • It's been a stunning free fall for Martinez.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But few people are aware that so many bee species are in free fall, and even fewer seem to care.
    — Hannah Nordhaus, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Back in space at the same time, the crew capsule is suspended in a free fall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But the can hits a switch on the wall which sets a running metal fan in free fall on top of him.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
  • But in the 10 days since the report, Adani stocks have been in free fall.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The currency, the rial, is in free fall.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The atoms are placed in a vacuum and are in free fall due to gravity.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Last week the ruble and the Moscow stock market were in free fall.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Iran's economy has gone into free fall.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Lonely, hot girl in financial free fall.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As a result, the reputation of many of these schools has been in free fall.
    — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But there are reasons why the Spurs (3-11) have been in free fall since.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Bird numbers are in free fall in much of the world, in part because of a changing climate.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 26 May 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
  • Cuba’s economy is in free fall.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Most filmmakers would have diluted the grit and genuine sense of moral free fall.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025

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