How to Use vertigo in a Sentence

vertigo

noun

• Not a good idea as a pang of vertigo stops me on my tracks.
  — Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
• Lue last missed a game in March due to vertigo and Drew filled in for him.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Be prepared for a bit of vertigo and being on the edge of your seat.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• To the c-section, the vertigo for 8 months, the breastfeeding, the late sleepless nights to the greasy hair, and the giggles ...
  — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Marshall had left the game for a stint, due to symptoms of vertigo.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 2 Jan. 2017
• Senzel has been plagued my migraines and bouts of vertigo in the past.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2019
• Those prone to vertigo should be ready to cover their eyes.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• The height of that perch induced a feeling like vertigo.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• The merry-go-round has spun fast enough at times to give an entire city vertigo.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Pau Gasol came down with vertigo and Chris Kaman’s injured calf kept him on the bench.
  — John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• No waves of vertigo struck when Delahunt moved his head.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
• The change in pressure can cause pain, vertigo, headache and nausea and in some rare cases may impact the judgment of jumpers.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2023
• Aguek Arop sat out Thursday when his vertigo flared up.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Just staring at his workplace gave me a sense of vertigo and unease.
  — 1843, 22 Nov. 2019
• According to Lana, Steve had come down with a bout of vertigo three days prior.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
• Massie, 31, missed one game last season with a minor case of vertigo and then a high ankle sprain put him on the shelf for the final five weeks of the season.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• The worst part was having an episode of severe vertigo with nausea that lasted for nine days.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Hikers who get vertigo standing on a welcome mat can still enjoy a hike on the Goat Trail.
  — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
• Thinking too deeply about such things can bring on a sort of vertigo, a feeling of centuries dropping away.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The South Bowl was socked in thick, triggering vertigo that left me touching the ground for direction.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Whipping my head about, only induced the faintest hint of vertigo.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
• The light-headedness may come with a touch of vertigo, causing the world to tilt around you, or even bring on feelings of sudden elation.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2023
• Ongais slows to a crawl on the vertigo-inducing rise that follows the dogleg left up to the rock-'em-sock-'em mineshaft plummet to the right.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
• The vertigo isn’t expected to be an issue in the future, according to a source.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, Cincinnati.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• In all, about one-quarter of people exposed to strobes feel what's called the Bucha Effect or flicker vertigo.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• Readers of his book may find themselves in a similar state of moral vertigo.
  — T.j. English, WSJ, 6 June 2021
• One potential juror who has vertigo sat down and couldn’t get back up.
  — Victoria Ballard, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• The decor has a funky, Old Hollywood vibe (think gilded crown molding), and its rows of theater seats climb high enough to induce near-vertigo way up in the back.
  — Emma Krupp, RedEye Chicago, 12 Apr. 2018
• And yet, no other medium is more equipped to capture the strange — but all too familiar — vertigo of feeling like someone is here and not here at the same time.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
• There’s a kind of vertigo in this eternal present—a seductive but sterile atmosphere.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024