tailspin

How To Use tailspin In A Sentence

• Commercial airlines were in a tailspin, and Boeing was caught in the downdraft.
• And judging by the moans and groans coming from some supporters at the moment you would think Burnley are locked in a tailspin of cataclysmic proportions.
• We initially went into a tailspin - we thought it was a poorly designed experiment. Times, Sunday Times
• Affirmative action in construction contracting programs is in a tailspin, with some cities bailing out of what they now see as a legally risky enterprise.
• His low point seemed to be the summer of 1994, when the baseball strike put the peanut and Crackerjack industries into a tailspin.
• The Hornets won six straight before he returned, then they immediately went into a tailspin - just as they did when he returned the first time and they lost five in a row.
• But now, if the doom-mongers are to be believed, the group will tailspin and be sold off bit by bit to the highest bidder.
• More importantly, the Asian financial crisis sent property prices into a tailspin, and the government has largely resisted entreaties to bail people out.
• Meredith goes into a mini-freakout about how terrible a mother she'd be, but it's like an eighth of the kind of tailspin she used to fall into, and pretty much holds it together. From Inside the Box
• The 22-year-old already is in a tailspin, having failed to get out of the fifth inning in each of his last three June starts.