Sample Sentences for
vertigo
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    It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by vertigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself.  (source)
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    To his credit, he then repeated the exercise, calling, "Again, upside down," but because of their insistence on a gravity that didn't exist, the boys became awkward when the maneuver was under, as if vertigo seized them.  (source)
    vertigo = a feeling of dizziness
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    My foot slips on a particularly crumbly bit of stone, and I hug the cliff face until the vertigo sweeps past.  (source)
    vertigo = a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall
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    First notes of vertigo.  (source)
    vertigo = dizziness
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    It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.†  (source)
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    I feel, in passing, a kind of vertigo.  (source)
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    He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah.  (source)
    vertigo = a dizzy sensation
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    I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.  (source)
    vertigo = a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall when at great height
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    There was an instant of vertigo, a sickening lurch as the window flashed past.†  (source)
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    I was too busy trying not to die from vertigo.†  (source)
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    Mae attempted levity: "I guess you don't put anyone with vertigo up here."†  (source)
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    The Hawking effect caused nausea, vertigo, headache, and hallucinations.†  (source)
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    A late winter wind blew the tops around, inducing in her a momentary vertigo.†  (source)
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