Spike used in a sentence

Spike in a sentence as a noun

We got an immense spike in unique IPs.

There's absolutely no basis for assuming that traffic will continue at the spiked rate.

If you stress out a human long enough, you cause first a huge ongoing spike in cortisol etc., and later, a serious drop as the damage is done.

Set up an autoresponder politely telling folks that you're a single person and the spike in requests is a bit overwhelming.

If you plotted the announcements of new generation mining gear against those charts in the same way Google News does you'd likely find that each big spike is equal to in time as new_mining_gear_announcement_date + new_mining_grear_delivery_date4.

Spike in a sentence as a verb

The spike probably had a lot to do with the release of Tron: Legacy on December 17 who had a character named Quorra which could easily be misspelled as Quora.

In the world of small website acquisitions, you'll be valued at something like 1X your previously proven annual revenue, not at a linear projection from what spike day looked like.

That is because cortisol is required to rise to the "stress" of every day living standing up from sitting is a stress, making decisions, etc., all create tiny spikes of cortisol to help you cope.

But a book teaching how to write code in the language is not a throwaway spike solution, and in that environment you should either explicitly tell readers you're teaching them a style that nobody else uses in production code or — and this is my preference — just write idiomatic code.