spiral
Example Sentences
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As the name suggests, a stellar bar is a straight, elongated feature that stretches across the central region of a spiral galaxy.
From Science Daily
The risk is that a conflict drags on or spirals into something the U.S. didn’t bargain for.
An animal rescue centre has claimed it is at "breaking point" after seeing its running costs spiral to £40,000 a month.
From BBC
Speaking to analysts, he warned that the traditional software industry was being fundamentally transformed by this adoption, an argument that has seen shares in enterprise software companies spiral lower in recent sessions on Wall Street.
From Barron's
I thought we were spiraling down when we went out to eat once and they ran out of steak, so we had to have lamb!
From Los Angeles Times
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