spiral

Light bulbs come in all sorts of forms—globes, spirals, candle-like tips, and long tubes—but few are truly thin.

After being sworn in, Jeri vowed to spend the remainder of the presidential term cracking down on spiralling violence linked to extortion rackets run by organized crime gangs.

When I have anxiety spirals, I try to find solutions.

China needs the U.S. to drive its export engine, the largest in the world, and keep its economy from spiraling into a slowdown that would stoke civil unrest.

“Since then, it has spiraled out of control real bad,” Weibel says.