How to Use spin out of control in a Sentence

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  • Inflation can be a nasty cycle and spin out of control.
    Peter Dunn, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
  • In danger of letting the game — and the series — spin out of control, the Lightning needed to respond, and quickly.
    New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • Sudden braking can cause your vehicle to skid or spin out of control on snow or ice.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Our purpose and our expectation was not to trigger a broader conflict, or events would spin out of control.
    Haley Ott, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Called Stuxnet, the virus attacked control units for centrifuges at Natanz, causing the sensitive devices to spin out of control and destroy themselves.
    Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • After a wild one night stand together, Ealy’s character watches his life spin out of control.
    Jasmine Grant, Essence, 3 Dec. 2020
  • More than a decade ago a virus called Stuxnet attacked control units for centrifuges in an underground site in Iran, causing the sensitive devices to spin out of control and destroy themselves.
    Alan Suderman, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • But, according to May of Oxford Economics, there’s still a lack of clarity on what exactly caused the situation to spin out of control, and what policymakers can do to fix it.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The incident at Target — though what specifically set off the altercation or what type of cards were involved are unclear — raises new concerns, collectors say, that parts of The Hobby could spin out of control.
    Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, Christian innocently stood several feet away, watching Amy spin out of control.
    Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 22 Dec. 2020
  • After slowing down for three months, inflation is accelerating again, fueling concerns that prices could spin out of control and interrupt the US recovery.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Many in Serbia accuse the increasingly authoritarian Vucic and his government of letting the virus crisis spin out of control in order to hold a parliamentary election on June 21 that tightened the ruling party’s grip on power.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020

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