How to Use dizzy in a Sentence

dizzy

1 of 2 adjective

• Prices rose at a dizzy rate.
• Complex math problems make me dizzy.
• The children were dizzy after spinning in circles.
• I'm feeling a bit weak and dizzy. I think I'm having a dizzy spell.
• The range and scope of vibrators are enough to make a gal dizzy.
  — Dr. Nan Wise, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2019
• In the middle of a Zoom call in the spring of 2020, I was hit with a sudden dizzy spell.
  — Chloë Grande, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• Your pulse speeds up, you get flushed, have a headache, feel weak and dizzy, then barf.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
• Peering over the edge where Toni fell, Shott felt dizzy.
  — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2018
• Already feeling dizzy by the amount of deals to sort through?
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• Casali was drilled on the mask in the seventh inning and felt dizzy running first to third in the eighth.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
• The nurse lay in bed this month, coughing, wheezing and dizzy with fever.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Parr used to divert her gaze from crashes on the road; the mere thought of it made her dizzy.
  — oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2022
• Find out what's causing your dizzy spell and when to talk to a healthcare provider.
  — Isadora Baum, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
• For the Fab Four, the world was their dizzy, seductive oyster.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• And Greg still gets tired and dizzy after standing for too long.
  — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2021
• The dizzy spells got more and more frequent, striking him sometimes 12-15 times a day.
  — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 26 Dec. 2019
• Desnos, also 18, passed out the next day, and felt dizzy and had hot flashes while at a fast food restaurant.
  — Fox News, 2 June 2022
• In the bathroom, Ericka was dizzy from the latest turn.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
• There are a bunch of different things that could be behind your dizzy spells.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Aug. 2020
• Feeling dizzy, John leaned over and held her head in her hands in between her knees and fainted.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
• One morning in the summer of 1999, Shukriya Barakzai woke up feeling dizzy and feverish.
  — Lynsey Addario, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2021
• Jones may be cleared to practice, but could feel dizzy after a tough workout.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Oct. 2021
• The bat spins, where a fan is asked to place his forehead on the knob of a bat, twirl around for 10 seconds, then attempt to get his dizzy self to 1st base.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• But as the inning continued, Stewart began to feel dizzy as a welt formed on the side of his head.
  — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• After an hour or two in front of a computer screen, a kind of dizzy fatigue washed over me.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
• On her 26th birthday, Dana suddenly becomes dizzy, and the walls of their LA home fade away.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
• This can lead to, among other things, feeling dizzy or fainting.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• For years, Tamika was forced to endure painful heavy periods that stretched on for weeks and left her dizzy and weak.
  — Becca Andrews, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2022
• One of the members of the crew had gotten dizzy and nearly tumbled from a roof the other afternoon.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2021
• Police said that the 7-year-olds spit out the substance before ingesting it but that all of them soon felt dizzy.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023

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dizzy

2 of 2 verb

• The range of what the right team could do with Davis is dizzying.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In the case of Barcelona, one faces the dizzying unknown.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• The effect is dazzling at first, dizzying in the long run.
  — Bruce Watson, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The room, and the acoustics, are warm but the fact of everything all at once is dizzying.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Nov. 2019
• Bricks began to lift and dizzy around the cylindrical walls.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The 22-inch wheels with 16 spokes can be dizzying to some, yet at most speeds it looks like the spokes are not moving at all.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The fall from the peaks of early January has been dizzying.
  — Nathaniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• Throwing the ball back to the pitcher or sliding into a base would make the catcher dizzy.
  — Dallas News, 17 May 2022
• Its growth has been dizzying, from almost nil ten years ago.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The effect has been dizzying, and not just in terms of how fast Woods climbed back into contention.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Place your laptop on a table to keep it from moving around to dizzy others.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2021
• Even to those in the middle, who are content to let Robert Mueller do his work, the breadth of the potential scandal is dizzying.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 19 Dec. 2017
• Turnover — even among doctors and nurses — has been dizzying.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• Men strap on dizzying heels to make their way through Spain's capital, buoyed by cheers of support.
  — USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
• The speed with which players and teams turn fickle has reached dizzying heights, driven both by teams and by players.
  — Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• And then in the summer, we get pitched into dizzying daylight and a frenzied push of things coming alive.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2019
• The range of options is dizzying, so use the Sock Finder tool on the company’s website to narrow down the socks that best suit you and your trip.
  — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Bulldogs hit a dizzying three three-pointers in a hurry and blew their lead open to double digits by as much as 14.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• The view from the top is dizzying, especially when a lightning storm rolls in and ignites one of the features on a tower.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
• Some view them as dizzying hellscapes filled with honking, bird-flipping, and rear-ending.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• The marathon of clothing previews and style stars that descend upon cities like New York and London and, like last week, Paris, is dizzying.
  — Christina Oehler, ELLE Decor, 13 July 2016
• There are so many film festivals taking place in North Texas that trying to keep up with them is dizzying.
  — Cary Darling, star-telegram, 27 June 2017
• The implications are, once again, dizzying, and Panek takes evident pleasure in the whirl of new ideas.
  — Amelia Urry, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• For more, visit the #crocnails and #crocodilenails hashtags and prepare to be dizzied by the sheer amount of options you're presented.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 12 Feb. 2020
• An Italian government crisis has more twists and dizzying turns than a cliff-top drive along the Riviera.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Creative Labs has a dizzying set of patterns and up to 16.8 million colors consumers can pick from.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 June 2017
• Related All that has led to dizzying moves for stock markets, which sold off early in the year, then rose to records in the fall only to drop sharply in recent weeks.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• Each time, though, the efforts were tripped up by dizzying costs and lawsuits from animal welfare groups.
  — Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2020
• The list of celebrities in attendance was also dizzying.
  — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• The surf slams, invisible a few feet away in the profound blackness, the undertow sucking back, the stormy breeze dizzying.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024

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