spiral

Example Sentences

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This is a downward spiral - and every time you think it has ended, has kept going deeper.

From BBC

A gift made calmly two weeks ahead will almost always feel more generous than one made in a last-minute spiral.

From Salon

“Growing up as a child of immigrants, I was kind of self conscious about displaying too much of my culture,” she says between bites of spiral fried potato.

From Los Angeles Times

Using their new model, the researchers followed how matter spirals inward, forming turbulent, radiation-dominated disks around stellar mass black holes.

From Science Daily

Bollywood has always been considered high-risk, producing more flops than hits, but producers say the balance has tipped sharply as star-driven costs spiral beyond what box office returns can sustain.

From Barron's