SPIRAL in a Sentence
Learn SPIRAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
23 example sentences for SPIRAL, such as:
1. A snail's shell is spiral in form.
2. The eagle spirals up into the sky.
3. The production in this factory is spiral.
4. The birds circled in a slow spiral above the house.
5. They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood.
2. The eagle spirals up into the sky.
3. The production in this factory is spiral.
4. The birds circled in a slow spiral above the house.
5. They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood.
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Meanings and Examples of SPIRAL
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spiral
n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
n. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
Classic Sentence:
1 But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.
2 Kennicott drew from the injured leg the thick red "German sock," the innumerous other socks of gray and white wool, then the spiral bandage.
3 It was reached by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a square hole like the hatchway of a ship.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
4 The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
5 Afternoon and hush and the far-off sound of the wagons coming in from the spiraling red fields.
6 They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood.
7 A cold grey sky threatened rain, and a high wind drove the dust in wild spirals up and down the streets.
8 His art was all tubes and valves and spirals and strange colours, ultra-modern, yet with a certain power, even a certain purity of form and tone: only Mellors thought it cruel and repellent.
9 Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly descended the endless spirals of revery.
10 It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the serpent-snapping eye.
11 Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.
12 When at last the twelve rods were made, Ahab tried them, one by one, by spiralling them, with his own hand, round a long, heavy iron bolt.
13 Then it darted a thousand feet straight up into the air; then spiralized downwards, and went eddying again round his head.
14 A grain fell and spiralled down; a petal fell, filled and sank.
Example Sentence:
1 The birds circled in a slow spiral above the house.
2 A snail's shell is spiral in form.
3 The production in this factory is spiral.
4 The road of life is a spiral path, only swagger, flexible turning, can rise to the ideal.
5 This housing market is in a downward spiral and I've got to re-think my strategy.
6 Others fear that security is to spiral downward in a long-term because more brazen traffickers will fight for control.
7 And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
8 The eagle spirals up into the sky.
9 Roughly 300 dams are proposed or under construction in the deeply cut valleys of India's mountainous north, part of a massive effort to meet the country's spiralling energy demands.