vertiginous
adjective
whirling; spinning; rotary.
vertiginously
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a word derived from
vertiginous.
Example Sentences
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As Avery went to purchase a slightly better seat, she watched the price of the ticket in her cart rise vertiginously.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022
The shifting blocks of type can spin, Cubistically and vertiginously, if you move too fast.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Maria is vertiginously in love but she’s also swirling in the consumerist spell of an America that has consigned her to a custodial role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
We shuffled vertiginously to one door, then another, then another, before finding the real exit and escaping to a lobby.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
Stable-men were busy there; the car itself, unguided, continued vertiginously on its course.
From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus
