How to Use spiral in a Sentence

spiral

1 of 3 adjective

• Along one side of the house was a spiral staircase to the second floor.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• Up the spiral staircase is a bunk bed and flat screen TV.
  — Evan Sasiela, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
• And this book took me about four or five full spiral notebooks.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• It’s the fact that the star appears to spiral, like the central figure in a tiny galaxy of its own.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2022
• But through the spiral hole in the Great Tree, Han could just see the crowds of people sitting, their eyes forward.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 29 Aug. 2022
• To keep its curvy shape, a spiral topiary needs to be pruned at least twice a year.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
• Our own little solar system resides in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Dancers rotate and spiral, bend a knee, bring the foot across the leg, and land in a supported slanted plank.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The cast iron base heats up easily, while the spiral handle stays cool.
  — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
• The distinctive spiral design makes this wind chime a chic piece of decor as well.
  — Kate McGregor, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• Two of the four Royal Suites stretch over two levels with a spiral staircase.
  — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 14 July 2022
• The best reason to stay up late and go somewhere dark is the sight of the spiral arms of our Milky Way galaxy arcing across the night sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Tess pulled a plastic spiral hair tie from her wrist and lifting her black hair up.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• Images released in the survey show part of the Milky Way’s spiral disk, where most of the stars and dust are located.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Launch two cars down and around a double spiral racetrack.
  — Christina Barron, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• These cause spiral lines to appear on the building, drawing the eye into a rhythm rather than straight up and down.
  — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The spiral helix will rotate downwards and extract the cork.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
• Healy delivered one song from the top of a spiral staircase and another atop the roof.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Nov. 2022
• The bubbles are usually blown by the lead whale and others will swim in a spiral pattern to contain the fish.
  — Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• Frost the cookies in a spiral shape, slowly working your way toward the center of the cookie.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2022
• The inner plate of the bowl is topped with a spiral design as well, which adds visual interest.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2022
• There are dishes fired in a faience factory in Gien, France, and spiral goblets and flutes hand-blown in Italy.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
• With 16 curlers attached to a band that wraps around the forehead, the tool can be used to create spiral or loose curls, beach waves, or crown volume.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2024
• These beacons are spread through the spiral arms and densely packed in the galaxies’ centers.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• The glittering pattern was swirling in spiral patterns up her thighs, down her arms, and around her bust.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 13 Aug. 2023
• The tire shop was closing up, and tenants at the Harold Apartments were climbing the spiral staircases to their rooftop decks.
  — Gale Hollandstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• Look to the west-northwest sky in the evening to early night to see the spiral Andromeda Galaxy, the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2024
• Dressed in all black, the 36-year-old twins watched the show from a perch on a spiral staircase, clapping as their models walked the runway in their new creations.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• Two more scurried down a spiral staircase to catch a man who was walking with Santos.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• For the pupils, hot-glue black and orange yarn in a spiral pattern directly onto the pumpkin.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022

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spiral

2 of 3 noun

• The glider flew in a wide spiral over the field.
• The quarterback threw a tight spiral to the receiver.
• The moon’s clash with Mars sets the stage for a self-doubt spiral.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
• To make: Use pliers to widen the circle at the top of each wire spiral.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2023
• Start at one end of a bacon slice and roll the slice into a spiral.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2024
• The males then fly directly upwards in a spiral over 300 feet in the air.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• Keep reading for the best locations to watch bats in Texas spiral through the night sky.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
• The snail's shell has seven to nine whorls (spirals) when it is fully grown.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• For now, the Milky Way is a spiral, with arms that are the main nurseries for stars (and therefore planets).
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• And then there was also a lot of discussion around Franklin at the end and how far to take his spiral down.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
• Threaded throughout the scene are light pink spirals that look like pinwheels twirling in the wind.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 July 2023
• The track looked great—a spiral of ramps surrounding a huge tabletop of packed dirt.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Or will the military stay the course and risk having the unrest spiral out of its control?
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The spirals almost reminded me of a slinky bouncing up and down.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• To them, the years have whistled past with the screaming velocity of a Josh Allen spiral.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• But Barroso didn't let the Good Will Hunting writer and star spiral.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 July 2023
• With his own pocketknife, V. swiftly made a spiral of red peel.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The researchers suspect a gold spiral would have been strung between each disc as a spacer.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• The guitar will charge you, scare you, send you into a spiral of self-consciousness.
  — Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
• But add the stress and trauma of living on the edge of financial ruin and a vicious spiral begins to take shape.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• There’s always something to send us into a doom spiral.
  — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2024
• But the Rays are in a bit of a spiral, having lost seven of their last eight after being swept by the Rangers and dropping three of four to the now first-place Orioles.
  — R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• The 43-year-old South Carolina native’s two-month doom spiral had been for nothing.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• Bank stocks have steadied after a monthslong spiral set off by the failure of three banks.
  — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 30 June 2023
• The whales swim upward in a spiral, spewing bubbles all the way, then lunge into the center of the column to grab an enormous mouthful of krill.
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• Material blasts off the surface of the sun in dramatic loops, arcs and spirals.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
• Then roll ropes of dough into spirals and tuck into a muffin tin for baking.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• The injury to Chris Sale (shoulder fracture) marked the beginning of this spiral for the club after such optimism for the lefthander to start the year.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• In such a situation, the thinking goes, the economy risks a wage-price spiral.
  — Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• The stems can be guided through training methods to resemble braids, spirals, hearts and loops.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 Aug. 2023

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spiral

3 of 3 verb

• The airplane spiraled to the ground and crashed.
• Smoke spiraled up from the chimney.
• Let's deal with this crisis before it spirals out of control.
• The stock market is spiraling downward.
• The unemployment rate has been spiraling upward.
• But then the program traces how his life spiraled after the NFL.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• The plane spiraled downward and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• All the time, the project’s costs had spiraled, both for its builders and for would-be users of its electricity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
• The price of metal, glass, wood and plastic have spiraled up, as have shipping costs.
  — Trefor Moss, wsj.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Starting on the outer brim of the hat, glue the paper fringe around the edge, spiraling your way inward.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Most of us have run away from ourselves at some point, maybe even spiraled in a foreign city.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• In his junior year, Dominguez seemed to spiral further.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• As the stars orbit and their expanding winds sweep outward, the dust spirals out like the jet from a lawn sprinkler.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Obviously, the stans are spiraling, and not just the Swifties.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• An increase in shipping fees from the Gulf states and spiraling hikes in the cost of diesel fuel for crabbers’ boats.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2023
• Things spiral out of control, the crowd goes wild — really wild — and the whole thing turns into a massacre.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• In the worst cases, blood pressure drops, the heart weakens, and the patient spirals toward septic shock.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 26 June 2023
• The party, which has led the campaign to break away from the United Kingdom, spiraled into scandal.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• And in the weeks leading up to the shooting, Loftin said, Crumbley was spiraling, alone and depressed.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
• And analysts have warned that both sides risk the tit-for-tat attacks spiraling out of control.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Even though the bank may be able to stomach those losses on a small scale, things can spiral out of control in extreme cases.
  — Talia Trackim, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• That’s one reason the movie works: Things spiral wildly out of control for Dom and Cole, but the foundation feels real.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• Daniel’s passing led to a dark time for Smith, who spiraled into a depression and a haze of prescription drugs.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Yet the endless quest for answers also spiraled into a kind of madness.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The disagreement had spiraled into one of the big rifts in their relationship.
  — Sarah Felbin, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• The show ended in 2008 and Flav was more famous than ever, but his trouble with the law and addiction began to spiral.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 16 Jan. 2024
• Rodriguez stars as a troubled ex-soldier who fights to save her family as the world spirals out of control.
  — Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• In the finale, the play spirals into an onstage brawl after Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) storms the set to confront Lexi, her younger sister.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Despite the blasé appeal of his spiralling singsong melodies, Tecca has joked that his early raps were a bluff, a hint at an identity yet to form.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• My mother never talked to him for long, as though afraid that any shift in her attention might send my brother’s health spiralling.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024