How to Use tailspin in a Sentence

tailspin

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  • The team went into a tailspin and lost six straight games.
  • Stock prices are in a tailspin.
  • At worst, this could be the start of a fateful tailspin.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • Rosen went 3-10 as a rookie and his career hasn’t come out of the tailspin.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2022
  • And there are no easy answers to stop the Wolverines' tailspin.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The company’s future was in doubt and its stock was in a tailspin.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
  • Through it all, the Gators’ tailspin has continued, leading the school to fire Mullen.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Talk a friend out of a tailspin as the moon and Mercury harmonize.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • Can Davis pull himself out of the tailspin, as Bostock did?
    — SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • And then the pandemic hits and then that just threw threw us into a tailspin.
    — Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Two months ago, the Wildcats found themselves in the middle of a tailspin that seemed to derail the season.
    — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2022
  • There were five white men set to speak (and this was after the election of Barack Obama) and that sent Glantz on a tailspin.
    — Shelley Zalis, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The first-round No. 8 draft pick sent social media into a tailspin and came as a shock to Cousins.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • While Rowland was on the rise, Aurora was in a tailspin.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Not hearing from him for two or three days sends you into a tailspin.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • His father gave him a gentle yet stern pep talk that snapped Sacks out of his tailspin.
    — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • The vehicle struck a tree, causing the car to tailspin, Curry said.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The Titans, who have scored 20 or fewer points in four straight games, have to try and figure out how to stop this tailspin.
    — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • What are your thoughts on the tailspin that the retail clothing industry is in?
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2020
  • But being laid off again has thrown him into a tailspin.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • More and more margin calls come in and more assets are sold, sending the price into a tailspin.
    — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • While Bad Bunny’s crop top has sent his fans into a tailspin, crop tops on men are not a new thing.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • At 3,500 feet, the plane suddenly nose-dived, went into a tailspin and flipped over.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Within 72 hours, Sampson would be out of a job and IU would enter a tailspin that took years to arrest.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The pandemic threw many tourist hot spots into a tailspin.
    — Ralph Jennings, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2021
  • The rulings caused outrage on the left, led to protests outside some of the justices' homes and sent the court's approval rating into a tailspin.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The entire economy went into a tailspin that cost millions of jobs across a broad swath of the country.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Alex’s abusive father shows up and Alex is sent into a tailspin.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The soft-landing scenario holds that the economy is indeed slowing down, but not going into a tailspin.
    — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
  • For example, when Fed chairman Jerome Powell signaled last year that further interest rate hikes were likely, the market went into a bit of a tailspin.
    — Becca Stanek, theweek, 7 May 2024

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