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Example sentences for "giddily"

Lexicographically close words:
gibs; gibt; gibus; gico; giddie; giddiness; giddy; gide; gidius; gie
  1. He wondered giddily how old she was--she seemed so much more self-possessed and experienced than himself.

  2. She thrust the blossom against his face; Jon agreed giddily that of all things in the world caution was the worst, and bending over, kissed the hand which held his.

  3. Perhaps it was because my head still spun too giddily with that flight in the old rug for much thought; perhaps because I did not yet fully realise the thing that had happened.

  4. Then another playful Martian butted the behind part of my canoe and set it spinning, so that all the stars seemed to be dancing giddily in the sky.

  5. I inquired, though my tongue felt dry and parched, and the room, with his fiendish face, was swimming giddily before my eyes.

  6. I staggered giddily when I stood on my feet, and only Olivia's look of pain steadied me.

  7. Beneath the cool, wide stare of that great mountain, men cannot live as giddily as in some lesser summer's playground.

  8. With a choking cry of utter fright he lunged, leaned giddily against the cold building, and stared helplessly at the sight.

  9. For a little the gulf swam giddily beneath her who was never quite easy at any unusual height.

  10. There were glaciers and peaks hanging giddily above, but these were obscured by the rain clouds.

  11. The brig was sheering swiftly and giddily through a long, cresting swell.

  12. My heart exulted as I heard the crack of the whips in the electric air and felt the earth rush giddily under my feet as I leaped behind the speeding teams.

  13. As I giddily ascended the gangplank and felt a wreath of roses flung about me I was conscious chiefly of an unsuitable lack of appreciation.

  14. Endlessly under me see I the ether, and endlessly o'er Giddily look I above, shudderingly look I below, But between the infinite height and the infinite hollow Safely the wanderer moves over a well-guarded path.

  15. Giddily onward it bears thee with resistless impetuous billows; Naught but the ocean and air seest thou before or behind.

  16. His nerves were steady, and he surveyed the giddily twisting wheels of shining water, without any corresponding giddiness in his own brain.

  17. And the night oppressed her, the ghostliness of it all suffocated her, the moon seemed to whirl giddily in the sky and to expand to a gigantic size and spin round like a silver wheel.

  18. In the mirror the room went round and round, the candles whirled giddily like a reeling firmament.

  19. Here the highest snow-peak toppled giddily down and reared giddily up from the crystal green to the ether blue, firs massed into the center of the double image.

  20. Instantly that familiar lift had swung downward, turning and twisting giddily upon its single strand of steel wire, till the dangling platform was actually resting on the gallery which supported Dick and his friends.

  21. He gave the man a terrific buffet, a buffet which sent him giddily against the wall of the gallery, while it awakened the sleeping mechanic.

  22. Far down the line a yellow point could be seen, another shot out beside it, the humming swelled to a roar, and with the rush of a whirlwind the train dashed past Lucy, a flare of yellow lights flying giddily by.

  23. How little the monk knew, he thought, and Nilus was staggered at the haggard expression of the Margrave's face, as he stumbled blindly and giddily down the moonlit avenue beside him.

  24. Her head swam giddily and she felt a feebleness in all her limbs; shudders of icy cold ran through her, followed by waves of heat, that sickened and suffocated her.

  25. Now in contrast to her former state, she had a sense of being giddily light and uplifted above the situation.

  26. Walking giddily along the unstable, sliding earth, she allowed him to guide her to the old stone seat on the south terrace.

  27. He was experiencing all the giddily rapturous throes and exquisite frenzies of what is known as "revelation"--only its cause was not divine but human love.

  28. There was a certain note of secure mockery in it--a threat as of something controlled--a suppressed secret triumph, that brought the past giddily upon her.

  29. On and on she danced, giddily whirling;--the thoughts in her brain circling as rapidly as her movements.

  30. Things were in abeyance,--political and social matters whirled giddily towards chaos and confusion; and the numerous hurried Cabinet Councils that were convened, boded some perturbation among the governing heads of the State.

  31. Then, stumbling giddily down the stairs, he wandered, blind and half crazed, into the darkening night.

  32. Slowly, with a sensation of doubt that seemed to weigh her down, Anne rose to the surface of things, and looked once more upon the world that had rushed so giddily away from her and left her spinning through space.

  33. As for Lucas, he lay quite still for a long while, steadily watching the motes that danced and swam giddily in the sunshine.


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