spiral

Example Sentences

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With a pit in their stomach, families and industries across Europe are watching gas prices and the cost of filling vehicles with petrol spiral.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

That’s what economists refer to as a debt spiral.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The Fed chair downplayed worries that private-credit defaults would spiral into another financial crisis like 2008.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

A single definition sends her into a spiral over such terms as “average coral” and “sea pink,” while elsewhere imaginative riffs and historical detours pull the reader well beyond the book’s central thread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I spun the spiral phone cord around my finger, tighter and tighter with each ring.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas