Air Pocket

Earlier this week, the IPO market hit another market air-pocket when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.7%. ❋ Shayndi Raice (2011)

A roaring light-pencil flashed by and Mason was flung forward as the vessel careened violently into the air-pocket that followed in its wake. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

Sure enough, the plane slipped into a very big air-pocket, and down it dropped sharply. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1965)

Wait till we get into a big air-pocket - you'll feel funny, young Paul! ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1965)

"John was good enough to consider my wretched air-pocket nerves rather than his petrol." ❋ Various (N/A)

The great volume of gusty sound, hurled aloft by these thousands of sky-pointing mouths, created an air-pocket in which the bombing plane tilted dangerously. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

And Stern was beginning to consider himself as good as in Boston already -- was beginning to wonder where the best place might be to land, whether along the shore or on the Common, where, perhaps, some open space still remained -- when another formidable air-pocket dropped him with sickening speed. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

"We're going through an air-pocket of risk aversion," said Jack McIntyre, a fund manager who oversees $21 billion of international debt at Brandywine Global Investment Management in Philadelphia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As many as 12 persons were injured when an Emirates Dubai-Kochi flight, with 375 passengers and crew onboard, hit an air-pocket above Goa Sunday morning, airport sources said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We're going through an air-pocket of risk aversion," said ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pilot Wayne Whitlock popped in an Enya tape to calm anxieties and pointed out the blue/brown water of the Gastineau and Taku rivers different from the aqua of the ocean, green bog-like marshes next to startling blue glacial ice, white air-pocket glacier ice and the gray/brown powders of the grinding sliding ice. ❋ Unknown (2010)