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

One of them, a tall old man, a mere skeleton with a long white beard, left the ring and begun whirling vertiginously, with his arms spread like wings, and loudly grinding his long, wolf-like teeth.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)