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Example sentences for "spiraling"

Lexicographically close words:
spiracles; spiracula; spiracular; spiral; spiraled; spiralis; spiralled; spirally; spirals; spirant
  1. Five years ago, the spiraling rise in drug addiction was threatening human and social tragedy of massive proportion, and there was no program to deal with it.

  2. First, a decade of rampant inflation drained its reserves as we tried to protect beneficiaries from the spiraling cost of living.

  3. And that is to bring their spiraling costs under control.

  4. Turning to the three boys, he indicated the spiraling slidestairs.

  5. Tom, Astro, and Philip Morgan stepped on the slidestairs and began their spiraling ascent to the forty-second floor.

  6. He watched and saw the two planes spiraling upward, climbing to a higher altitude where it would be easy to dart down at him if he swung north.

  7. That it took the air smoothly, spiraling upward as gracefully as any of his young flyers could do, did not escape him.

  8. Spiraling vastly, up, up climbed the giant plane.

  9. As she took one of these and twirled it contemplatively, the blue-gray vapor spiraling upward was no more dreamy than her eyes.

  10. If you're not careful to board just the right train you can get lost in its tomblike, spiraling immensity and feel as helpless as a wandering ghost or an experimental laboratory animal caught up in a blind maze.

  11. It was completed and the towering gray walls were firm and solid, and the grills were sending oxygen spiraling out over the Colony without making me feel light-headed at all.

  12. The squadron was spiraling upward in close formation with his plane above them when the enemy struck.

  13. He saw the first faint vapor form above him; swung over for a steep bank that carried him around the inside of the great cage of gas and that showed him the spiraling planes as the first wisps of vapor swept past them.

  14. These spiraling monsters, however, did not pause or waver in their stolidly ordered motion.

  15. Bound together in groups of seven by the mighty, pale-green bands of force, the Vorkulian units sailed calmly northward, spiraling along with not the slightest change in formation or velocity.

  16. We must never again abuse the trust of working men and women, by sending their earnings on a futile chase after the spiraling demands of a bloated Federal Establishment.

  17. The spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken centuries.

  18. Furthermore, they were caught in a spiraling inflation, and often found that when they finally received their money from Congress it then would cost them twice as much to replenish their stocks.

  19. Even the most patriotic pharmacists were faced with a complete financial suicide, caught between a spiraling inflation and a Congress that had no money and only a promise for the future.

  20. As he moved down the spiraling grand staircase, he clicked on the phone.

  21. There were vibrations all around him and a deafening roar that was slowly spiraling upward in frequency and volume.

  22. There were three tremendous flares, each opening and spreading outward like the sides of a funnel, each a livid burst of incandescence spiraling outward into space.

  23. He was standing by a visual reference mechanism which looked almost exactly like a black stovepipe spiraling up from the deck.

  24. He knelt and stared down into a spiraling web of darkness.

  25. It was quickly relieved by the sight of a French reconnaissance plane spiraling down for a landing.

  26. I was behind him and picked a German who was spiraling either upward or downward, for a few seconds I was not sure which.

  27. In males, one and sometimes both of those teeth grow out the front of the snout, spiraling in a left-hand or sinistral direction, and may reach a length of 9 feet (2.

  28. In the meantime the Hind continued spiraling and drifting down, and Vance looked out to see the gray granite of the side of the mountain moving toward him, with only a bramble of trees in between.

  29. He caught his breath as he watched Vance begin rappelling down some kind of thin line dangling out the open door of the chopper, spiraling from the downdraft of the main rotor.

  30. But the mottled gray behemoth was increasingly unstable, shunting sideways, drifting over the security fence and spiraling upward toward the mountain that bristled with SatCom's communications gear.

  31. Then I sensed the main rotor engage, a sudden "whoom, whoom, whoom" quickly spiraling upward in frequency.

  32. I managed to cling to the limb for a few seconds more, the bark cutting into my fingers, and then my hold slipped away, sending us both spiraling downward till we were temporarily snagged by the Cebia's newly exposed undergrowth.

  33. Again they passed over the orchard and were on the point of spiraling upward when a shout issued from Jimmy's lips that Voissard heard even above the noise of the engine.

  34. Spiraling on upward, the plane drew away from the orchard and beyond range of Boche rifles.

  35. He quit work early and spent over an hour spiraling around the camp, but saw nothing.

  36. The airboat grew from a barely visible speck, and came spiraling down to land in the clearing.

  37. The high-powered scout and battle plane rose with a rush and almost immediately began to climb, spiraling in long acute sweeps and turns.

  38. At a quiet signal the leaders rose, spiraling into the upper darkness.

  39. Without another word Byers accompanied the orderly out to a point near the observation post, and almost instantly they heard the whir of approaching wings, evidently spiraling down from greater heights.

  40. So thick was the fog, the gun flashings did not reach up to where he was now spiraling still upward, in order to get beyond the chance effect of some stray shot.

  41. Blaine was below, the Boche above, each whirling, diving, spiraling as dexterous pilots do in such conflict.

  42. Bangs, spiraling upward and back towards the Hun front, was sending forth flare after flare that was meaningless to Lafe, yet which was for some purpose.

  43. By this time Orris was well up in the air and still spiraling higher.

  44. As for wheeling, volplaning, spiraling or doing anything that occasioned quick action on his part with rudder or planes, he was nearly helpless.

  45. One of these consisted in spiraling down to the earth with the engine shut off and landing almost directly beneath the point at which he started.

  46. As readily as a leaf borne aloft by a gust of wind the Nieuport answered to the controls and began spiraling upward.

  47. In a spiraling flight, the Nieuports rose in the air, and, at an altitude of about six thousand feet, waited for the photographic machine to meet them at their airy rendezvous.

  48. Trusting to luck that the eager spectators would get out of their way the four aƫroplanes began their spiraling descent.

  49. Jimsy chose spiraling as his method of rising.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiraling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ascendant; ascending; circling; circularity; circulation; circumlocution; climbing; cutthroat; deviation; digression; exacting; excessive; excursion; exorbitant; extortionate; extravagant; fancy; gouge; gyre; immoderate; indirection; inflationary; inordinate; leaping; meandering; mounting; orbit; orbiting; outrageous; preposterous; prohibitive; rampant; rearing; rising; saltatory; spiral; spiraling; turning; unconscionable; undue; unreasonable; unwarranted; upcoming; upgrade; uphill; uprising; upward; usurious