Sentence examples for a downward ride from inspiring English sources

— It was a routine that Theresa Fiorentino followed for as long as anyone could remember: seven, perhaps eight steps from the newsstand to the elevator, a downward ride of about five seconds, and a minute or so smoking a cigarette along one of the concrete platforms at the Croton-Harmon train station in Westchester County.

Set pieces can go upward, hauled on wires into the 10-story fly space; downward, riding one of the seven hydraulic elevators that make up the stage floor; backward, sliding away from the audience into the cavernous hangar behind the stage; or sideways, rolling into the wings on enormous motorized platforms.

In the last year, Lernout has ridden a downward spiral of accounting scandal, bankruptcy and the arrests of top executives.

She recalled a time a pilot beaded in on her farmhouse's roof line while performing a downward spiral, a move that caused her to interrupt a riding lesson and run into the house to get her children out.

It is a downward spiral.

"It's a downward spiral.

"We are in a downward spiral".

There's a downward trend in attendance".

It's a downward spiral from there.

They are trapped in a downward spiral".

"Our city is in a downward spiral.