vicious cycle

Examples (10)

• He was caught in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting.
• Many families are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and debt.
• Worrying about sleep can create a vicious cycle where anxiety leads to more sleeplessness.
• Taking out new loans to pay off old ones just perpetuates the vicious cycle of debt.
• It's a vicious cycle: you can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience without a job.
• Our main goal is to break the vicious cycle of violence in the community.
• The conflict has become a vicious cycle of retaliation and revenge.
• Deforestation and soil erosion can create a vicious cycle that is hard to reverse.
• She realized she had been stuck in a vicious cycle of procrastination and stress.
• If we don't intervene, this vicious cycle of addiction will continue to destroy lives.