Example sentences for: spiraling

How can you use “spiraling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He can give Patricia Arquette the stigmata and make her eyes turn red and have her speak in a man's voice in ancient languages and send her spiraling aloft in her apartment until she ends up crucified in midair.

  • Tortured by headaches and nosebleeds, he lives a life of fractions and spinning tangents, and the metaphors are right there in the filmmaking, captured in the furious montage and in flurries of talismanic signs--the swirls of milk dissolving in a coffee cup, the smoke spiraling off a cigarette.

  • Homer's eyes aren't fixed on the Spielbergian heavens but on earthly means of getting off the ground: the mix of saltpeter and sugar that causes a rocket to soar without exploding, the shape that keeps it from spiraling into populated areas, the thickness of steel that prevents its nose cone from melting, the trigonometry that's employed to track its trajectory.

  • One feels that Wright, who was passionate about Asian art, would have enjoyed a slow walk up his spiraling ramp, stopping here and there to admire the stunning objects in generously spaced glass cases.

  • A similar point is made in the Wall Street Journal 's front-page piece about the spiraling management problems at the leading HMOs: namely that HMOs are not proving to be a brake on the system's problems, but rather arenas that readily reproduce them.


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