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Example sentences for "dizzying"

Lexicographically close words:
dizzier; dizziest; dizzily; dizziness; dizzy; djin; djins; dler; dlichen; dlink
  1. Suddenly a black line had cut the sea, something like a long thorn with splinters of foam which was advancing at a dizzying speed, in bold relief against the water.

  2. Only a few seconds had passed by when there began to be seen upon the water a black back of dizzying speed headed directly for the steamer.

  3. The people of the steamer lived like terrestrial travelers who sleepily survey from the car-windows a succession of indefinite and dizzying views streaked by telegraph wires.

  4. Some time later came the sudden thunderous silence as the jets cut out; there was the dizzying moment of free fall, followed by the sound of the lateral jets imparting longitudinal spin to the small ship.

  5. Instantly the creature put on an added burst of speed, rocketing through the branches in dizzying bounds that threatened to tear away Dylara's none too certain hold.

  6. But when it came to hurtling from bough to bough and tree to tree in a dizzying pathway high above ground, he was both hesitant and doubtful.

  7. It seemed impossible that it could continue to live, yet with each dizzying sweep it did achieve the impossible.

  8. Many a time and oft she had driven her father's highest-powered car at dizzying speeds along worse roads than the one her machine was now following.

  9. The dizzying circle, where one must step, step--keep time or be lost!

  10. Pagkasánaw tan-áwun sa ubus, How dizzying it is to look below.

  11. Sáwan ang walug gíkan sa tumuy sa búkid, It is dizzying to look down into the valley from the top of the mountain.

  12. More "whistle talk," and agile as a monkey Kara was aloft, making dizzying whirls among the branches of an oak nearby.

  13. It was a daring, reckless spring, and he landed on the planking beyond the rails on a dizzying slide.

  14. I, only I, shook not beneath the storm Of joy that lifts all hearts with dizzying whirl, And scatters turmoil widely o'er the earth.

  15. A fearful dizzying gulf--that absorbs whate'er is precious in the eyes of men.

  16. He claims to work "about 28 hours a day," and a look at his dizzying list of activities supports this claim.

  17. She moved steadily along over the roofs of the cars, one after the other, and pulled away from the engine whose ponderous drivers appeared to be spinning around with the dizzying swiftness of the propeller overhead.

  18. He threw his head to one side and stared at the ground, which appeared to be rushing away from him with dizzying swiftness.

  19. It was something mysterious and dizzying that resided in every particle of her individuality.

  20. Thank you," said Edward Henry, quietly, with a superb and successful effort to keep as much colour in his face as if the policeman had not dealt him a dizzying blow.

  21. Others were below, reached from the road by means of ladders, that trembled and swayed over the dizzying waterfall.

  22. To Nanny it was a dizzying experience to sit at the head of her own table, and, with assumed calmness, invite the minister not to spare the loaf-bread.

  23. Multi-ethnic empires alternated with swarms of mini-states with dizzying speed.

  24. Circling each other in marble temples, they switch their roles in dizzying progression.

  25. The skiff, still attached to the ship's plating, was likewise carried around at dizzying speed.

  26. Much to Ned Land's displeasure, Captain Nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of Brazil's populous shores, because he shot by with dizzying speed.

  27. We could barely cope with this dizzying rush, and the waves battered us at close range.

  28. There was a dizzying pain in his head, a slackness of the muscles, that disturbed him, because he had scarce known an hour's sickness until he left Yoredale to accept shrewd hazard on King Charles's highway.

  29. He was fighting for the kingship of his soul, and all the glen went dizzying by him.

  30. Dizzying visions of what he would have to tell "the boys" when he returned to New York flashed across his mind.

  31. With dizzying rapidity the broad square, the grim black Ka'aba, the prostrate white throngs all sprang up at the basket.

  32. He was remembering the frightful, dizzying plunge down the black pit into the steaming waters of the River of Night--waters which, had they been but a few degrees hotter, would incontinently have ended everything on the instant.

  33. Every eye was turned upward,--every heart beat with terror to see the delicate girl, held by a single arm, and apparently about to be precipitated from that dizzying height.

  34. At about the center of the clearing Blackleg came to a jarring, dizzying stop, rearing high on his hind legs.

  35. He brought his horse to a dizzying stop, wheeled, drew a rifle from his saddle holster, raised it to his shoulder and took a snap shot at Calumet.

  36. The skin of his face hung down long and loose, and full of wrinkles, like an old reindeer skin, and there was a dizzying smoke in his eyes.

  37. Heat as from an oven rose up from the huge abysses and dizzying clefts, whilst mighty steaming waterfalls roared and shook the ground.

  38. Again the sphere's invisible motors increased speed, and again the dizzying kaleidoscope of color swept past them more furiously.

  39. At the Wanderer's exclamation the enclosing sphere became transparent and they were in the midst of a dizzying maelstrom of flashing color.

  40. After that moment of mental agony and ghastly physical pain, after a dizzying rush through inky nothingness, Bert knew suddenly that he was very much alive.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dizzying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.