Panic, and the speed of her descent, had made her breathless.

His life depended on the speed of his descent.

He was falling through clear air but the speed of his descent still made it impossible for him to breathe.

The firefighter controls the speed of his descent by releasing a lever.

The words he spoke, for his mouth moved, were lost in the speed of their descent.

He stared at it stupidly for a moment as the speed of his descent began to increase.

Either from the speed of my descent or for some other reason, I was, too, totally unable to draw breath.

This only increased the speed of his descent, and he welcomed it.

Barely, just barely, I was able to reduce the speed of its descent, even guide it a little sideways.

We should expect little else given that the speed of the economy's descent into recession has been the most rapid since 1945.