spiral
noun
a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
were spiraling
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past progressiveof spiral.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They came into the day with a 29-36 record and were spiraling into irrelevance.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
To be fair to Unseld, the coach did try to make tactical adjustments as the Wizards were spiraling out of control.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
At a low point in his own life, Rodriguez said, “I felt like things were spiraling out of control,” and people told him he was following in the footsteps of his absentee father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
When I watched the fourth season of the Danish political drama "Borgen," recently released on Netflix, I initially concluded that the show had captured the changing zeitgeist: Women's aspirations were spiraling downward.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2022
“Up until then, we were spiraling further down...Now we were dangling there. We weren’t falling anymore.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
