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vertiginous

Main Entry:	ver·tig·i·nous [ver-tij-uh-nuhs] /vərˈtɪdʒənəs/ Show Spelled
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Example Sentences

Vertiginous people should start moving about cautiously when the spinning stops.

His buildings swoop and soar with vertiginous curves and startling precipices that seem to defy gravity.

Reid's plan was for us to spend the morning bouldering, then move on to more vertiginous climbing after lunch.

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Vertiginous people should start moving about cautiously when the spinning stops.

His buildings swoop and soar with vertiginous curves and startling precipices that seem to defy gravity.

Reid's plan was for us to spend the morning bouldering, then move on to more vertiginous climbing after lunch.

Undulating, roughly carved ceiling beams add to the vertiginous sensation.

At first, this produces an interesting vertiginous sensation.

Schwab, the ups and downs of his job these days are more vertiginous than a mountain range.

Sure enough, their political rise has been vertiginous.

Each of three new books treats a different aspect of that vertiginous period.

The city's vertiginous topography creates views galore, both large-scale and small.

Hemmed by vertiginous cliffs that turn deep orange as the sun sets, the beach is popular with locals, surfers and dolphins.

Transport costs are a small fraction of labor costs, but they are now rebounding from a vertiginous plunge over the winter.

They are partly filling a vacuum created by the vertiginous fall of elected politicians from grace.

She scared me half to death that first time out-me, the vertiginous flatlander.

Sprinkled throughout are their shrieking female counterparts, in bodycon dresses and vertiginous heels.

Shafer carrying out his man-of-the-year duties, the movie sustains a tone of vertiginous loopiness.

And, because the effect is of scenes developed on accordion pleats it makes for vertiginous viewing.

Whereas the performance itself opened up vertiginous depths of empathy, the online experience was addictive and alienating.

But there was also the kind of apprehension that steadily builds during the slow ascent toward the ride's first vertiginous dip.

One idea in particular drives this novel through its hairpin turns from poeticizing prose to vertiginous reflections: hybridity.

It was a vertiginous time, rushing headlong into the future, treading the brink of nuclear war.

Vertiginous roads wind along both rims of the canyon, giving you the opportunity to pull over at any of several scenic belvederes.

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