How To Use Tailspin In A Sentence
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Commercial airlines were in a tailspin, and Boeing was caught in the downdraft.
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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.
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We initially went into a tailspin - we thought it was a poorly designed experiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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His low point seemed to be the summer of 1994, when the baseball strike put the peanut and Crackerjack industries into a tailspin.
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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.
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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.
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More importantly, the Asian financial crisis sent property prices into a tailspin, and the government has largely resisted entreaties to bail people out.
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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
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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.
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Currently US airlines are in a tailspin over the decline in passengers taking to the air.
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Mr. LEVIN: That created a kind of tailspin for him because he realized that this guy could do something that he couldn't do.
Mozart's Last Symphony: The Giant 'Jupiter'
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The surprise passage of the law [ b ] [ u ] [ i ] threw the online gambling industry into a tailspin.
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The plane then went into a tailspin, rushing towards the ground below.
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After the death of his sister, Vincents life began to tailspin out of control.
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The stock price of the combined company declined more than 75 percent as Wall Street went into a tailspin and advertising swooned.
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General Motors is about to go bankrupt due to the lack of foresight of countless overpaid executives who apparently like to design cars using bricks and a old glue gun, and the U.S. economy is in a tailspin thanks in large part to some of the most disastrous, corrupt and downright criminal policies and practices of a previous administration I helped spawn," Gingrich didn't add, sighingly.
Mark Morford: Obama should take wife to Liquor Barn, watch pay-per-view, fall asleep in drunken stupor "just like the rest of us," furious GOP says
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She passed away suddenly the summer before our senior year, and it threw Jamie in the kind of tailspin I can only imagine.
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year
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Obama's speech in New York on Monday will push Congress to take action on regulatory reform to prevent the kind of tailspin that the economy went through last year.
Market News
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Their shaky logic may have failed in court (at least on appeal), but it did destroy Reems's life, sending him into a tailspin of alcohol abuse and financial and personal despair.
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His beautifully judged film matches the moments of comedy with glimpses of the unspeakable tragedies that can send a life into tailspin.
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With business activity fading and IT investment in a tailspin, many now fear that productivity will continue to hit the skids.
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SNOW: He really has, and that word tailspin just as indicative of how fierce, though, the competition is here.
CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2007
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Paramount among those is a surprise pullback by consumers, which could send the expansion into a tailspin.
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The collapse of Enron last December initiated a chain reaction which uncovered serious accounting fraud at a number of US multinationals, and put Wall Street into a tailspin.
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The climate is in tailspin What are you waiting for?
Vert - French Word-A-Day
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The telecom industry was already in a tailspin, so no one wanted to take on the added risk of doing business in areas where they couldn't be sure they'd get paid.
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But the club went into a financial tailspin after relegation from the top flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sexual revolution has swept up young adults in a perilous tailspin.
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My theory on the tailspin is because the Indians are built around so many talented young players who found winning easy last year.
USATODAY.com - Indians have GM Shapiro wondering
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But the club went into a financial tailspin after relegation from the top flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The true picture is of an economy driven by consumer debt, which faces a collapse in house prices that would send consumer spending into a tailspin and see a corresponding growth in poverty and unemployment.
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‘Their increasingly shabby treatment of people like me is one of the reasons their results are in a tailspin,’ said my friend.
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After the mill closes,the local economy may tailspin.
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Many of them are fantastic at telling you what has happened last year or promising more of the same when times are good, but precious few spot the early warning signals that can flash amber well ahead of the tailspin.
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Following the announcement, share prices went into a tailspin.
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A revamping of its board, new designer offerings and the upgrading of stores have failed to pull Marks & Spencer out of its tailspin.
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Its cellphone unit had been in a tailspin since the decline of the ultraslim Razr phone.
Ex-Officer Fires Back At Motorola
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They don't pull the joystick until the tailspin is imminent.
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But human area threatens send this fragile ecosystem into a tailspin.
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From then on, your looks are thrown into a tailspin with out-of-control tresses, skin problems and misbehaving makeup, all seeming to need time-consuming fixes.
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The auto industry began 2001 in a tailspin, with dozens of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants temporarily idled for periods of a week or more.
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About 600 miles out, Erwin broadcast a frantic message that he was in a tailspin and headed for the ocean below.
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Someone very wise told me, when the economy started to tailspin, that there was no better time to start a company than during a down market, because if you can survive a down market you can survive anything.
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Microsoft is sinking fast in this market already, and whether Windows Phone 7 can pull them out of their tailspin is the billion-dollar question.
The Register
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An Arsenal defeat could lead to a desperate tailspin damaging the two crucial cup ties that come along in February.
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This notion that the Albemarle economy is in a tailspin is absolute bunk.
Mixed Bag of Election Results at cvillenews.com
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He tried to pack the Supreme Court with partisan allies and, overconfidently judging the economy recovered, retreated from the New Deal by instituting spending cuts that prompted a fresh economic tailspin.
Sunday Reading
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We get the feeling that seeing a woman walk out the door with her suitcases packed is a biannual event for Don, yet it sets him into a depressive tailspin.
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The surprise passage of the law threw the online gambling industry into a tailspin.
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An apparently minor problem, such as a flurry of downgrades, could quickly engulf the financial system by sending markets into a tailspin, wiping out hedge funds, and dragging down banks that lent them money.
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The one-time Silicon Valley highflier, which makes software companies use to manage salespeople and call centers, has been in a tailspin for three years.
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When the airline industry went into a tailspin, the government, banks and other backers rallied round.
