Thesaurus / spiraling
FEEDBACK- ambiguous
- anfractuous
- circuitous
- convoluted
- crooked
- curving
- devious
- flexuous
- gyrating
- indirect
- intricate
- involved
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- roundabout
- serpentine
- sinuous
- snaky
- tortuous
- twisting
- wriggly
- zigzag
- ascending
- climbing
- growing
- increasing
- soaring
- surging
- advancing
- emerging
- mounting
- skyrocketing
- going up
- upsurging
- bending
- curving
- meandering
- serpentine
- sinuous
- snaking
- tortuous
- turning
- twisting
- twisty
- windy
- zigzag
- circuitous
- convoluted
- labyrinthine
- roundabout
- anfractuous
- flexuous
- indirect
- mazy
- snaky
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How to use spiraling in a sentence
Flying saucers hover here and there, red spirals echo the poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Vertigo,” and the general trippiness is a flashback to acid-rock light shows.
IN THE GALLERIES: THE WASHINGTON COLORISTS AND THE CIAMARK JENKINSNOVEMBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIn restaurants, the consequences of the death spiral of pandemic mismanagement are glaringly obvious, and speak to a larger breakdown in public life.
RESTAURANTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THEM NEED A BAILOUT. LET’S FINALLY GIVE THEM ONE.MEGHAN MCCARRONNOVEMBER 19, 2020EATERThe whales with spiraled tusks jutting from their heads have been known to live in small groups that, at times, come together to form large pods.
A 28-YEAR-OLD ‘NERD’ IN BALTIMORE INVENTED A NEW TYPE OF MASK, AND TAPPED INTO THE STRANGENESS OF THIS 2020 HOLIDAY SEASONTHERESA VARGASNOVEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POSTLife’s stresses cloud my thinking and I spiral into a downward circle of frustration, fear and doubt.
FRIDAY FEEDBACK: DEFENDING DEMOCRACY, FINDING PURPOSEALAN MURRAYNOVEMBER 13, 2020FORTUNEIn 2007, we were watching someone spiral away from the constraint of her managers and image-handlers and ultimately even out of her own control.
WHY BRITNEY SPEARS’S FANS ARE CONVINCED SHE’S BEING HELD CAPTIVECONSTANCE GRADYNOVEMBER 11, 2020VOXIt would be impossible to detect such motion if the spirals were actually way far away.
THESE ARE SCIENCE’S TOP 10 ERRONEOUS RESULTSTOM SIEGFRIEDNOVEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWSBefore Europe’s coronavirus resurgence, South America’s outbreaks had begun to spiral out of control, and the hardest-hit has been Brazil.
50 MILLION WORLD COVID-19 CASES: THE BIGGEST OUTBREAKS, EXPLAINEDCHRISTINA ANIMASHAUNNOVEMBER 9, 2020VOXThen crunch the data to see whether your metabolism is settling into a sustainable pattern, or whether it’s spiraling out of control toward a fiery explosion.
WE NOW HAVE THE LAB DATA ON NIKE’S BREAKING2 RUNNERSALEX HUTCHINSONNOVEMBER 6, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEThe group advocated a schedule of fees, adjusted for geographical location, to standardize and contain the spiraling cost of medical services.
PHILIP LEE, PHYSICIAN AND LBJ OFFICIAL WHO ROLLED OUT MEDICARE, DIES AT 96EMILY LANGERNOVEMBER 6, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey come spiraled, mace-tipped, needle-barbed and multiheaded.
‘PHALLACY’ DEFLATES MYTHS ABOUT THE PENISES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOMBETHANY BROOKSHIRENOVEMBER 3, 2020SCIENCE NEWSWORDS RELATED TO SPIRALING
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