Example Sentences

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For Trey and other students at the prestigious prep school, the speed and the scale of the loss were dizzying.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

I was solidly in the backcountry now, my car dwarfed by mountains that were dizzying, elegant and layered with history.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Amid the social convulsions, advances in technology were dizzying.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2020

But to Segal, the possibilities were dizzying, unique.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

Lines of type were dizzying, the eye having to move slowly across the page, then down, and across...

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez