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396 examples of Spiral in a sentence

My spine curves spiral.
The spiral thread we call a "solo hot spot."
And the wonderful thing about the new bookstore is, it's going to be shaped in a spiral that's organized by the Dewey Decimal System.
In fact, I see it more as a spiral.
The frame and radii of this web is made up of one type of silk, while the capture spiral is a composite of two different silks: the filament and the sticky droplet.
There's the aggregate and flagelliform silk glands which combine to make the sticky capture spiral of an orb web.
In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.
But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.
We have been led to believe that drug users are irresponsible people who just want to get high, and then through their own personal failings spiral down into a life of crime and poverty, losing their jobs, their families and, ultimately, their lives.
A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway.
The spiral eddy that trails a paddle on a rafting trip.
As the spiral of recursive improvement gathers momentum, we eke out victories against the forces that grind us down, not least the darker parts of our own nature.
And I was really struck once I'd drawn this picture to realize that the symbol of well-being in many ancient cultures reflects this very same sense of dynamic balance, from the Maori Takarangi to the Taoist Yin Yang, the Buddhist endless knot, the Celtic double spiral.
In fact, just studying the rings alone, we stand to learn a lot about the discs of stars and gas that we call the spiral galaxies.
And here's a beautiful picture of the Andromeda Nebula, which is our closest, largest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.
And by the time a diagnosis was made, she was in a deep spiral.
And it turns out the royal insignia has a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle, and the path through that palace is actually this spiral here.
The majority of the galaxies are spiral, similar to our own Milky Way.
Just a vicious downward spiral.
They bail out as soon as they get to the top of Saint Ivo, that little spiral structure you see there.
Whereas bad relationships, by which I mean, probably going to get divorced, they found themselves getting into a spiral of negativity.
Combined with the novel’s magical realism, this produces a sense of history as a downward spiral the characters seem powerless to escape.
This can spiral into feelings that they don’t deserve accolades and opportunities over other people.
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.
I'll put it over here, and as I move this away from the source, you'll notice the spiral.
Some of them, like the one we live in, are beautiful, spiral shapes, spinning gracefully through space.
All of the evidence we have says that dark matter is there and it accounts for much of the stuff in those beautiful spiral galaxies that fill the heavens.
We've long known that the heavens do not revolve around us and that we're residents of a fairly ordinary planet, orbiting a fairly ordinary star, in the spiral arm of a fairly ordinary galaxy.
Even if the ball didn't disintegrate on impact, or hit any obstacles, as the air slowed it, the angle of its deflection would increase, causing it to spiral into smaller and smaller circles until finally stopping.
And just to get that spiral, you'd have to make the ball spin over 15 times faster than Carlos's immortal kick.
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