How to Use vicious circle in a Sentence

vicious circle

noun

• We're trapped in a vicious circle.
• Graham told the man that he was caught in a vicious circle.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• Doing more with less is the way to stop this vicious circle of self-pressure.
  — Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• The plunge in yields risks spawning a vicious circle for the industry.
  — Fortune, 27 Aug. 2019
• Yet, this scenario is no fait accompli and the means to break the vicious circle already lie in our hands.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 22 July 2022
• With each wanting to be one step ahead of the others, all are caught in a vicious circle that is spinning out of control.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• If the latter, the dynamics will favour a vicious circle.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• But fears about finances and the health of her parents, who live in Ohio, can create a vicious circle of torment.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
• In his music, Mr. Lamar talks frequently about how the poor can get trapped in vicious circles.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
• Infra spending is the only way to break this vicious circle.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 2 Feb. 2020
• This could lead to more arrests that, in turn, reinforce the algorithm in a vicious circle.
  — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
• That can start a vicious circle in which demand continues to fall as more people lose their jobs.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 13 May 2020
• Experts worry the fires may be evidence of a vicious circle of climate change.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2020
• When the moist forest canopy becomes so dry, and the savannah spreads, that fires propagate and expand in a vicious circle?
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
• The utility of a transaction is what drives the ceiling of the transaction cost when the channel is full and appears to drive a vicious circle of value and price.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• In a vicious circle, the more the local officials lied about their output, the higher the central government set the quotas.
  — Helen Raleigh, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• Many might be all the rage at one point only to enter a vicious circle and ultimately collapse.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• That vicious circle is at the crux of what makes The Assistant so powerful: The system is designed to protect the aggressors, and punish the victims.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• The result is a vicious circle: The more these states (and their local governments) spend and tax, the more people leave, which means the burden on those who stay rises, which induces more to escape, and so on.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Self-selection effects can create a vicious circle: the sorts of people who might change economics become less likely to study it in the first place.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2021
• The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• These sales created a vicious circle that may now be exhausted.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• When Zelensky won in a landslide victory, many Ukrainians hoped that the vicious circle would be broken.
  — From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• At the same time, their focus on attracting healthy people and avoiding sick people is creating a vicious circle.
  — Robert Reich, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
• So, Zach continues the vicious circle after going to the hospital.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• This leads to a vicious circle, with ever-higher levies being imposed on those Greeks who can’t or don’t want to evade taxes, hampering economic growth.
  — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• This is the vicious circle, presumably an iron logic that condemns us all to ever more unbearable summers.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 22 July 2022
• As land prices and wine prices become locked in a vicious circle, each forcing the other higher and higher, even purchasing wine becomes nonviable for many.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• This vicious circle can’t be broken by legislation, and the technology that set it in motion isn’t going away.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• But the partner company's internal management simply dragged on, passing the task from one manager to another and from one department to another, in a vicious circle.
  — Pavlo Sidelov, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024