Example Sentences

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The disconnect between tone and stakes here is dizzying.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2025

But the amount of action packed into each is dizzying — how does this show manage to create so much drama, to develop such fully realized characters in so small a space?

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

The action is dizzying, as blue and red tendrils circle around Clive in colorful, abstract displays, and each battle win is punctuated with an operatic choir.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

"When we are faced with extreme evil, and we experience that it is possible in our society and that it is there, that is what is dizzying," he added.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2022

But I’m not really listening, because the height is dizzying.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth