tailspin

Example Sentences

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Many families also said that they had been thrown into a tailspin, trying to arrange for weeks of childcare to cover the early finish.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Its after-effects have derailed her life, and an unexpected email invitation to attend a retirement party in France honoring her former lover sends her into a tailspin.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

That gummed up credit markets, tanked the value of money-market funds, and sent global stock markets into a tailspin.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

That was our headline on June 13, 2025, the first of the 12 days of war that sent Iran’s regime into a tailspin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Like a pilot dipping the plane into a tailspin to practice pulling back out, she would deliberately take photos out of focus, with the wrong shutter speed or the wrong ISO, to see what happened.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng