spiral

Definition:
1. A shape or design, consisting of a continuous curved line that winds around a central point, with each curve further away from the centre.
2. A continuous harmful increase or decrease in something, that gradually gets faster and faster.

Use 'spiral' in a sentence:

• 1. The plane spiralled down to the ground.
• 2. Another question remains: what prevents the planet from continuing its spiral until it collides with the star?
• 3. Can Nagasaki pull out of the spiral?
• 4. I'm not concerned that we're in a competitive spiral—Coles has had to do what Coles has done, which is to regain price trust.
• 5. The divorce rate is spiralling upwards.
• 6. The motorcade spiralled up the mountain.
• 7. A joss stick spiralled smoke.
• 8. Analysis of Spiral Water Wall Tube in Once Through Boiler.
• 9. The orange stripes go through the green spiral but not the blue one.
• 10. Other types of millipedes may curl into a looser, sloppier spiral or form a neat ball.
• 11. Most spiral-shaped snail species are predominantly dextral.
• 12. The stairs spiralled round the central pillar.
• 13. A downward spiral had began.
• 14. The charged particles move in spiral paths.
• 15. The curliest of all perms is a spiral perm.
• 16. The smoke spiralled up.
• 17. The production in this factory is spiral.
• 18. The result is a downward spiral.
• 19. We mustn't get trapped in a downward spiral.
• 20. The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea.
• 21. In this case, the orbit of the rotating asteroid will very slowly spiral toward the sun.
• 22. It's a positive spiral.
• 23. Prices are spiralling out of control.
• 24. A new apparatus for internal welding of spiral pipes Internal Control.
• 25. The term Land Art brings to mind epic interventions in the land such as Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.
• 26. Concrete mixing and unloading mainly depend on the two spiral mixing leaves, so the design of the helical mixing blades is particularly important.
• 27. A snails shell is spiral in form.
• 28. The hickory spiral borer kills many seedlings and young trees, and the pecan carpenterworm degrades both trees and logs.
• 29. He recruited some of the workers to start making spiral bulbs for TCP.
• 30. Their profits began to spiral down disastrously.
• 31. We need to stop this downward spiral.
• 32. This spinning motion, at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second, may cause matter in the disk to take on a spiral shape.
• 33. A hopeless gambler whose passion for the game greatly exceeds his ability to win, Alexy finds himself spiralling out of control.
• 34. As the mountain path spirals up, the beauty of the scene fills one with enchantment.
• 35. Each of the spirals of light resolved into points.
• 36. Discussion once again on the improvement method of cylindrical spiral spring design.
• 37. The spiral of terrorism becomes never-ending.
• 38. A death spiral had begun.
• 39. This can lead us on a downward spiral with more and more plants and animals becoming endangered as well.
• 40. The disk exerts its own gravitational tug, and this interplay of forces robs the planet of momentum in its orbital path, forcing it to spiral in toward the star.
• 41. This line of reasoning underlies an exciting new theory of spiral-galaxy structure.
• 42. If many such chains were created in a differentially rotating galaxy, the distribution of stars would resemble the observed distribution in a spiral galaxy.
• 43. A negative spiral ( or vicious cycle) occurs when the spiraling has an increasingly disintegrative effect.
• 44. Monetary inflation spirals inexorably on.
• 45. The process is not a circle but rather a spiral.
• 46. She was trapped in a downward spiral of personal unhappiness.
• 47. The 2022 Olympic torch spirals upward to resemble two overlapping rising flames, with the outer one plated in silver to produce a striking contrast.
• 48. Probe into the value of the spiral CT 3-dimensional image reconstruction used in the diagnosis of the complicated membrum minor articulus trauma.
• 49. Production costs began to spiral.
• 50. House prices will continue to spiral downwards.
• 51. The birds circled in a slow spiral above the house.
• 52. These spiral vessels are part of a banana plant stem.
• 53. Our economy is in an inflationary spiral of wage and price increases.
• 54. A snail's shell is spiral in form.