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• The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.From the entry incorporate
• As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.From the entry eject
• We need to get a grip on these spiralling costs.From the entry grip
• E.g., orthoconic is a mollusc shell that is straight rather than spiraled, orthodentin is dentin composed of straight tubes, orthognathous is straight-jawed. .From the entry ortho-
• If you don't use your flight instruments when flying in cloud, you can easily get the leans and enter a fatal graveyard spiral.From the entry leans
• There are only months left to save our railway from a vicious downward spiral.2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25. From the entry death by a thousand cuts
• They are younger stars and tend to be found in the spiral arms of the Milky Way.2019 December 11, Brian Koberlein, “The Stars In Our Galaxy Are More Varied Than We Thought”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 15…. From the entry Population I
• As her looks went, she found herself on a downward spiral.2016, David T. K. Wong, “A Dusty Road”, in Collected Hong Kong Stories, Blacksmith Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 178. From the entry Yaumati
• The light pastry spirals dusted with icing sugar that flake perfectly.2014 September 21, Leadership Sunday, number 450, Abuja, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry ensaïmada
• And yet the Shortzian spiral below is a far more recent example.2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry Shortzian
• Groups of hawks all spiraling on the same thermal are called kettles.2012, Laur Erickson, Betsy Bowen, Hawk Ridge, University of Minnesota Press, page 3. From the entry kettle
• As the name suggests, it is possible to trace spiral curves in the pattern.2012, Efi Fogel, CGAL Arrangements and Their Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide. From the entry parastichy
• Next I would eat some ensaïmadas, small spiraled Majorcan pastries that are very popular in Barcelona.2008, José Andrés with Richard Wolffe, “Cataluña”, in Made in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson…. From the entry ensaïmada
• It leads to four rooms, all leading in turn to a mystical spiral staircase.2008, Ecoescape: Ireland, Markham Publishing, page 30. From the entry hobbitesque
• To begin with, both models see social change as evolutionary and as an 'ascensional spiral towards progress.'2006, Lisa Hill, The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson, page 133. From the entry ascensional
• By contrast, the leaves of bald cypress are arranged in a spiral all around the twigs.2006 June 27, Robert Mohlenbrock, This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry pond cypress
• On the way he saw a sweetmeat seller making jalebis (spiral sweet).2001, B.S. Rana, Jataka Tales, page 80. From the entry jalebi
• Curschmann's spirals are usually found in samples from animals with prolonged and excessive production of mucus.2001, Rick L. Cowell, Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Horse, page 75. From the entry Curschmann's spirals
• When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs.1999, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American. From the entry doublehanded
• They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science, volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages…. From the entry marblelike
• To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 707. From the entry arrest
• But what followed for Lozano, his grieving family claims, was a death spiral into infantilism and madness.1992 April 13, Anastasia Toufexis, Hannah Bloch, “Did His Doctor Love Him to Death?”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2011. From the entry death spiral
• The spiral is set in motion and observed by the patient.1985, John W. McGhee, Introductory Statistics, St. Paul: West Publishing Company, Section 4.4, p. 134. From the entry aftersense
• This equation is descriptive of a Cornu spiral, a spiral whose curvative increases linearly with arclength.1981, 25th IEEE Machine Tools Conference, 1981. From the entry curvative
• Others freely combine regular, geometric shapes—a cylinder, rectangle, or spiral—with dense aggregates of small sugarcube-like metal bits.1976, “Orenstein, Philip”, in Judith Tannenbaum, editor, New York Art Yearbook, 1975–1976, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Noyes Art Books…. From the entry sugarcube
• The seats have spiral springs, covered by rubberised hair and trimmed in artificial leather of green colour.1958 July, “German Railbuses for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 501. From the entry rubberised
• Stoney showed that the chemical elements could be plotted in a logarithmic spiral with a sesquiple ratio.1941, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, Popular Astronomy - Volume 49. From the entry sesquiple
• The FLOWMASTER has a completely embedded spiral so that the metal cannot be attacked by the flowant.1910, Walter R. Skinner, Walter R. Skinner's Oil and Petroleum Year Book. From the entry flowant
• They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson, James Ritchie, Studies on Alcyonarians and Antipatharians, page 9. From the entry dextrorse
• Italy, which lifted the trophy for the fourth time in Berlin two decades ago, has been spiraling downward ever since.2026 June 21, John Powers, “The World Cup group stage was supposed to be a feeding frenzy. So far, not so much.”, in The Boston Globe…. From the entry cleat
• The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly.2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering…. From the entry anti-transmasculinity
• A well-intentioned idea had spiralled out of control.2020, David Fawcett, “For all the time and effort, is feedback actually worth it?”, in Relearning to Teach: Understanding the Principles…. From the entry quattuordecuple
• In both tubothalameans and globothalameans, the chambers more or less coil around the proloculus to form a spiral.2020 September 25, Christopher Taylor, “The Glandulinid Position”, in Catalogue of Organisms. From the entry globothalamean
• We detected a clear sign of non-linear interaction between wakelets, which make global spiral arms by connecting two adjacent wakelets.2016, Jun Kumamoto, Masafumi Noguchi, “Global Spiral Arms Formation by Non-linear Interaction of Wakelets”, in arXiv. From the entry wakelets

Meaning of spiral

1. noun A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
2. noun A helix.
3. noun A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.

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Questions about spiral in a sentence

How do you use spiral in a sentence?

Spiral is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.”

What is a short sentence with spiral?

“She spiralled into a deep depression.”

What does spiral mean?

Spiral means a curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.