How To Use Giddy In A Sentence

Colour is a giddy delight. Times, Sunday Times
There are obvious logistical problems involved in protesting outside such a facility, and it was clear from the outset that the protest was not going to reach the giddy heights of previous campaigns.
Young White House officials were giddy with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
The variety is enough here to make the listener giddy, especially when presented in such vivid, richly textured studio sound. Times, Sunday Times
Things are kind of teary and giddy around here today. Oh yes.

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They produce the feeling of a giddy high. The Sun
Nobody has decided for definite; it's still just a giddy conversation about something that happens to other people. Times, Sunday Times
`Dressed him out and drug him up here - whole shebang took fifteen minutes, from giddyap to whoa. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
You are on the ground and you're almost giddy. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody has decided for definite; it's still just a giddy conversation about something that happens to other people. Times, Sunday Times
And, of course, it worships itself, with flashy correspondence dinners, magazine parties, self-satisfying award ceremonies, and giddy self-promotion. LOSING OUR RELIGION
I expect we're way off the track," says I; "but I'd like to have you take a careless glance at the giddy old party over under the kummel sign in the corner; the one facin 'this way -- there. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
There was no worn channel for the creek, and its waters, dammed up, diverted, flying through the air on giddy flumes, trickling into sinks and low places, and raised by huge water-wheels, were used and used again a thousand times. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
I think they feel a bit giddy, suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
Yes indeed I enjoyed horses vicariously and occasionally even pretended to be Jill and set up a few jumps in the garden and did a bit of giddy-up neddy trotting around my own gymkhana. Such stuff as dreams are made on...
I feel giddy; I must sit down.
Loca" is hip-hop merengue performed in two languages, with assistance from Dominican rapper El Cata and English rapper Dizzee Rascal, with little appreciable difference between the versions; "Lo Que Más" is one of a handful of doleful ballads; the Pitbull-assisted "Rabiosa" is giddy, rapid-fire Latin pop. Album review: Shakira, "Sale el Sol"
The idea of walking up the aisle myself makes me feel giddy in a bad way. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of walking up the aisle myself makes me feel giddy in a bad way. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the series struggles to reach the premiere's giddy sense of crackerjack timing.
I think they feel a bit giddy, suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
She seemed more giddy, ditzy and seemed entirely too comfortable with the current crowd of males she was attracting.
Most disturbing is the almost giddy pleasure they take in each other's unhappiness. Times, Sunday Times
We were moony and giddy and it seemed like something ripe with possibilities.
Even Alex's giddy sister turns out to be redeemable, and redemption is a very rare thing in political satire.
The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity.
They are giddy with jetlag and an unspecified number of rum swizzles (an evening ritual) from the Yankee Clipper.
Lee shifts his feet, startled at the giddy look in Wesley's rheumy eyes.
Sometimes it feels like I'm climbing Everest without Oxygen, I get so giddy with the words.
We looked down from a giddy height.
The only value I can see is to provide a little giddyap to that poky foursome in front of you. Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
The giddy colourist is really a daring philosopher, the intimist a public man after all. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter
Giddy up into the spirit of the west with timeless, rugged classics rather than hokey duds.
And a lot of these veterans that I have written about said it made a man out of me, or a young woman would say I went from being a giddy teenager to being a mature woman overnight.
He was first giddy, as after a deep draught of kindling spirit; this passed off, but the spirit was still in his veins -- the _estro_ was working in his brain. Rookwood
With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose. The Most Beautiful Show In The World
The second half did not produce the giddy play of that middle period of the first half. Times, Sunday Times
That greedy _Ranatra_, who eats so much, and never looks a bit the more solid for his meals, crept up a reed and sunned his wings; the water-gnats skimmed and skated about, measuring the surface of the water with their long legs; the "boatmen" shot up and down till one was quite giddy, showing the white on their bodies, like swallows wheeling for their autumn-flight. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco. THE DREAM OF DEBS
I got two comments in, which I am still young enough to be kind of giddy about.
She took refuge in every-day affairs; she told him of the giddy doings that kept her occupied from morning till night, of Cinders (the mention of whose name kindled a reminiscent gleam in the Frenchman's eyes), of the coming birthday dance, which he must promise to attend. The Rocks of Valpre
Life at Leicester continues to reach giddy heights. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the huge losses, he was giddy with victory.
Above the collection of stone-built houses that comprise Cotterdale, the fields were giddy with colour.
They produce the feeling of a giddy high. The Sun
In trying to steer a course between education and entertainment, the show ends up becalmed, devoid of the giddy momentum that insight or cheap thrills would provide.
While I've argued plenty of times before about the media's irrepressibly giddy lust for slapping the term "epidemic" on any and every problem that effects a large enough group, there are far too many obscenely overweight people across this great land of ours, and if you think it's simply a personal decision that affects no one but them and the Wal-Mart scooters whose suspension systems they push to the point of collapse, think again. Chez Pazienza: Food Fighter: Freedom of Choice vs. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution?
He wanted the reader to share his extraordinary intimations; this generosity gave even his scholarly dissertations and diatribes a certain spaciousness, a giddying other dimension. More on Updike: His Own Elegies
Fired by curiosity, he decided forthwith to find out what had inspired this giddy language of rocky ridges, remote corries and distant summits.
You are on the ground and you're almost giddy. Times, Sunday Times
Here, the sheer cliffs of the northwest side of Britain's highest mountain Ben Nevis soar to a giddying 2000 feet.
I hope he is still bubbly, giddy and warm. The Sun
Young White House officials were giddy with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
It was, of course, an innocent mistake, perhaps understandable at the end of what has been a giddying week.
Whether these opposing price trends leave you more giddy than glum depends largely on demographics.
I think they feel a bit giddy, suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
The two of them pulled away and sat back, giddy and light-headed.
You poised the sledge on a giddy height and down you would fly. The Sun
A giddy sense of deja vu overwhelmed her, catapulting her back two years, back to the same room. COMPULSION
His embrace of alternative medicine makes doctors giddy. Times, Sunday Times
When most people would sit on their laurels and "give it up," Carter says "giddyup," teach me some more! Archive 2006-03-01
Through a giddying cast of characters and inventive physical comedy, Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen tell the story of astronaut Ross Sparks as he travels back in time to find his explorer father and right a wrong. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
It's all a giddy whirl round here, I can tell you.
Hats off to the I.R.S. for finally showing some giddyap and enforcing the law," said Dean A. NYT > Home Page
Learn more about the word "giddy" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary. NYT > Home Page
A bosquet of climbing heliotrope close by threw a fragrance into the evening air, which turned her giddy with its overpowering sweetness. The Elusive Pimpernel
A rocket fired from a balcony signalled the fight's end one hour later, after which giddy participants hosed each other clean.
There's no need to act the giddy goat. Times, Sunday Times
Feeling almost giddy with relief, Mary kept her head held high as she walked, not permitting herself to give into the feeling to look back as she went.
She hadn't been on stage in 3 years and was quite giddy about it - glowing with sheer happiness to be back.
At the recent taping, he called a giddy thirty-something women up on stage. How Far Can Her Universe Reach?
And if you say 'giddyap' even one time, I'll bite your greasy, naked tail off at the butt. Kingdoms of Light
Of course, he also got giddy that the dow was up to 9150 a few weeks ago (seen it today?), so his judgement is a little suspect. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 20 Worst Americans
Giddyup is gone and tallyho is here… toss the cowboy hat and pull up the jodhpers, western evolves to English equestrian.
His businesses follow a giddy arc and tend to go awry. Times, Sunday Times
When I finally let go, we sat down and talked, me almost giddy with delight.
There was no worn channel for the creek, and its waters, dammed up, diverted, flying through the air on giddy flumes, trickling into sinks and low places, and raised by huge water-wheels, were used and used again a thousand times. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy .
If you're feeling a little giddy with the possibilities awaiting you, no need to read any further - just click and go.
After her first all clear, she became almost giddy with the triumph of it all. Times, Sunday Times
I am still confused and giddy as the ceremony at last gets under way. Times, Sunday Times
Good grief, she was regressing into a giddy teenager!
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GH1 produces sample shots and videos galore New materials change color when stressed, making fans of mechanochemical transduction positively giddy Joystiq [Nintendo]
I have never been giddy, dear Stella, since that morning: I have taken a whole box of pills, and kecked [26] at them every night, and drank a pint of brandy at mornings. The Journal to Stella
Tacked on to the scaffolding of the unproduced play, Cap’n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective, this enigmatic, dream-ridden fantasy involves a young man who travels three days on horseback from Kentucky to a small Missouri town with the intention of shooting to death a cousin, who is described as sappy, sentimental, giddy, and thoughtless, to settle a family feud. Mark Twain
He seemed stunned, as it were, and giddy; the earth on which he stood felt as if unsound, and quaking under his feet like the surface of a bog; and he had once or twice nearly fallen, though the path he trode was of firm greensward. The Abbot
The mood was giddy, the atmosphere festive. The Passion of Michel Foucault
Saddened by the law-breakers, but giddy with happiness with the additional 2-10 million dollars this will generate, Police commissioner Julien Fantino had this to say: "The only regret I have now, in hindsight, is that I didn't go after 30 over [the limit] as opposed to 50 over. Archive 2007-10-01
His four solo records for the label built on one another like a coming-of-age tale and ranged stylistically from the giddy Cheap Trick-style pop of "Sha Sha" (2002) and "On My Way" (2004) to his first record after moving to Austin in 2008, the appropriately country-themed "Changing Horses" (which was co-released with The Noise Company). NYT > Home Page
I could not swim; but one of the midshipmen offered to accompany me, stating that I need not be afraid, if I fell overboard, of sinking to the bottom, as if I was giddy, my head, at all events, _would swim_; so Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
During those giddy 1990s, everyplace claimed to be the next silicon boomtown.
I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me. She Sank Into the Sand
Some were still feeling giddy when conversation turned to proposals to cap ticket prices for away fans. Times, Sunday Times
Current US assertiveness cannot be seen simply as resulting from the short-sighted view of a few neoconservatives giddy at the thought of all those bombs.
Their world, as expressed in Welcome Interstate Managers, is one of heartsick teenagers, repressed office workers, the glories of high school football, and giddy suburban house parties.
Will saw that the look on his brother's face was eager, almost giddy, like that of a young child's, it was most pathetic.
In the U.S., then, the question is whether it can elect a government that can adopt policies appropriate for a declining superpower (as opposed to Bushs giddy adventurism which is based on a fantasy about U.S. capabilities.) ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: Karon: Notes on the Post-Bush Mideast
Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
Some were still feeling giddy when conversation turned to proposals to cap ticket prices for away fans. Times, Sunday Times
The Giddy Tigress says: Yes, O+ve donors are the most * generous "of them all, but also the most" choosy Giddy Tigers
He couldn't do nowt to Doed so lang as he were maister o 'his senses, but if he was to get fair giddy an' drop off into a dwam, then, sure enif, Melsh Dick would have him i 'his power and could turn him intul a squirrel as he'd turned other lads an' lasses afore. More Tales of the Ridings
Astolpho, that English duke in Ariosto, which never sounded but all his auditors were mad, and for fear ready to make away with themselves; [771] or landed in the mad haven in the Euxine sea of Daphnis insana, which had a secret quality to dementate; they are a company of giddy-heads, afternoon men, it is Anatomy of Melancholy
It is a far cry from the gap-toothed, giddy, baby smile he wore as an infant, or the giggly grin that he wore as a toddler.
When she was talking to Ryan she couldn't help but smile and get excited like a little giddy schoolgirl.
Giddy, gossipy and endearingly unslick, Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos chronicles the rise and fall of the most famous soccer team in the United States with slapdash glee. Maysles Cinema June 13-21 Schedule «
But first the Glazers, and now this? turns out nobody was supporting them from up in the heavens after all, though a few thousand were pretty close, if you count the upper tier of Old Trafford's giddying North Stand. Caught between Red Devils and the deeply irritating vuvuzelas
Despite her girlfriend's straight lased nature, she was a warm, giddy young girl under it all.
Snow always made him nearly giddy with happiness.
For non Americans "giddyup" is what cowboys often say to their horse to get him to go! Giddy-up or Give it up? Lessons from my day with President Carter!
Steep stairs may leave you giddy and faint.
As you look over the railings at the streets below, you feel quite giddy.
It's a mildly light-headed, giddy sensation that starts in the chest and spreads out through the body and along the limbs.
It's a mildly light-headed, giddy sensation that starts in the chest and spreads out through the body and along the limbs.
Just another day at the office, more or less, but I still feel somewhat giddy when a new title ships for Xbox. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Her voice (giddy or quivering), her gestures (ebullient or devastated), her posture (vertical, expansive as in "I Love New York!" or slumped like an urban pieta) describe the volcanic feelings that develop and finally erupt in her world-weary soul. James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
Excuse me for not getting overcome with giddy anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
Gazette reporters spoke to Wiltshire musicians who have reached that giddy height.
There were sounds of joy in their voices, as they seemed to be giddy as young schoolgirls selling cookies.
I say "arf" to indicate random emotions a lot, ranging from arfing happily (and unstoppably) when I am giddy, and arfing sadly whenever I feel crushed. God, I Love My Wife
There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity.
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy .
Our stomachs were nauseated at this giddy height, and, though we had almost every other kind of eatable and drinkable, our appetites craved only chocolate, which we could not obtain. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
You think a dashing, irresponsible hansom is more in keeping with the Factory Girls 'Club or some giddy Whitechapel frivolity!' The Convert
I was still feeling fearfully sick and giddy, and my right ear seemed to have gone deaf with the cannonading, but as I leaned against the pole, shuddering, one thought kept crowding gloriously into my mind: I was alive, and in one piece. The Sky Writer
Our SmartKat GiddyCat dangler toy lives up to its name as it dances and bobs to your cat's delight from a springy cord you control yourself.
Some boys are always playing the giddy goat, behaving foolishly.
But during the giddy precrash era, that track record gave little pause to Citi or others. Citigroup's Bad Boy
She flinched at this, and tried her best to conceal how giddy with shock she was.
Harry was always giddying me too - to loosen up, to see the bigger picture, to just be my total, fabulous, faerie self.
For listeners who caught the disco stomp of the ‘Giddy Up’ single from last year, you'll be surprised to hear such a downtempo record heavy with the influence of dub.
Colour is a giddy delight. Times, Sunday Times
Noon break awakes often dry of buccal dry tongue, and a headache giddy, what reason be?
So coming back left me with mixed emotions, leaving me slightly nauseous and giddy.
His embrace of alternative medicine makes doctors giddy. Times, Sunday Times
And best of all, one of the heads of Qantas told me it's only $800 to fly roundtrip between L.A. and Sydney ... so I say giddyup! Meg Hemphill: Australia Invades the US
Speaking to Alfie on the phone last week, he was almost inaudibly giddy, and told me about lots of frankly crazy and brilliant applications they have in mind, one of which is Borough Pong. Dashingly Hot Off The Press
Just ask all those giddy people who rollicked through the nation's capital last week.
The drink and the tobacco had made me giddy. Times, Sunday Times
NBC's normally professional Brian Williams and the estimable Richard Engel were positively giddy as they larked through Tahrir Square among the protesters. Terence Smith: No Cheering in the Press Box, Please
Insanely giddy, laughter filled the hall, rising nearly above the music.
They are giddy with jetlag and an unspecified number of rum swizzles (an evening ritual).
He was not only giddy like an overgrown teenager, he was also a clever klepto. Oscar Raymundo: Chaka Khan, Andy Cohen, and Alan Cumming Celebrate amfAR's 25th Anniversary at Ken Fulk's Studio
Oh, that IS modest (becomes half-term giddy half-termébouler) Kog Zadare, only living person...
February was a month of giddy excitement. Times, Sunday Times
'Twas bad enough in the old country, where we knew our places, even though some was ambitioned to get out of them; but here it's like blind man's buff, and enough to turn a body giddy. People of the Whirlpool
The platypus is telling me to giddy up, so I'd best giddy. "It's the wrong time. She's pulling me through."
Nell felt almost giddy at the way her outlook on the future had so dramatically altered.
Young White House officials were giddy with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
Excuse me for not getting overcome with giddy anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
Its giddy towers and turrets are reputedly home to 14 ghosts. Times, Sunday Times
The word giddy has appeared in 287 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 23 in the book review, "The Radical Entertainment of Harry Belafonte", by Garrison Keillor: NYT > Home Page
The second half did not produce the giddy play of that middle period of the first half. Times, Sunday Times
Now that you're all giddy from the links, why not go and Vote Mitchieville as Canada's Best Blog. Archive 2007-11-01
The idea of walking up the aisle myself makes me feel giddy in a bad way. Times, Sunday Times
We need to let our hearts get giddy with glee like kids ripping open pretty packages.
I did not much like going up the rigging, because I was afraid of turning giddy, and if I fell overboard I could not swim; but one of the midshipmen offered to accompany me, stating that I need not be afraid, if I fell overboard, of sinking to the bottom, as, if I was giddy, my head at all events _would swim_; so I determined to venture. Peter Simple
My mum came over all giddy and had to sit down.
She once took me to a Mums ‘n’ Tots meeting - a bunch of giddy women comparing nappy contents and moaning about their husbands.
Most disturbing is the almost giddy pleasure they take in each other's unhappiness. Times, Sunday Times
She leaves the train at Lambeth North, giddy with laughter.
There is a fan nearby which fills one ear with white noise and makes me slightly giddy as if I had drunk a short.
Giddy and wildly peppy, they exuberated energy as the lights dimmed and a short film played exhibiting a classic Sinead O'Connor jam. Popnography
It's breezy, you rarely get a palpable sense of danger watching the film, and the best surprises come from some giddy self-reflexive celebrity cameos.
We gotta get it poppin' from the giddyup," Akon argues. Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
I have never been giddy, dear Stella, since that morning: I have taken a whole box of pills, and kecked [26] at them every night, and drank a pint of brandy at mornings. — The Journal to Stella
Lyle Compton had called the dune-dwellers a giddy bunch, and their chitchat about UFOs and horoscopes confirmed that opinion. The Cat Who Went Underground
That really is the giddy limit!
I did not notice him at first he was wearing a great black curly wig, but then that swimmy, giddy feeling came over me when I recognised the long line of his back and the supple tilt of his head. Exit the Actress
That 6-1 derby victory had the fans giddy. The Sun
We stay up all night, giddy and giggly, and talk and plot until our mouths are dry deserts, drier than the fenceless and defenseless north of Kuwait. Excerpt: A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
Making your way over the cattle grid down the tree-lined avenue to Pittodrie House, you can feel quite giddy with the sudden outset of countryside syndrome.
Not content to just dissolve all this history into an ambient puddle, the track's frantic marching band brass section stomps double time for its giddy finale.
Swinging on a trapeze is like your third-grade swingset times ten, and the surge of childish adrenaline makes you giddy.
I don't think he will appreciate us turning her into a giddy school girl with incoherent ramblings.
They leaned against 4203-RD and worked through their rote of tender gestures: hand-holding, modest-mouthed kisses, a giddy lowering to the ground, me an awkward weight following them down. Bone Hinge
Fear took flight, and everything was possible; the Arab world opened up like a flower giddy with its own perfume.
But as even the tiniest elements of our small talk have to be translated, I'm gripped by the giddy sensation that the world has just ground to a halt.
But where does this giddy experience get us? Times, Sunday Times
I showed up giddy with anticipation, brimming with questions - and then I waited.
What made the lawmakers giddyap into the express lane were two things. No Magic Potion
He does songs, he does sonnets, he does standup and it's perhaps this, the giddying range that he displays (especially at such a tender age) that has blown audiences away. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: Bo and co show strength of 2010 shortlist
There's a giddy and gladdening eclecticism in the range of topics and tone. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
The giddy rush of buying a hummer of an album makes me happy.
He guides you to long satisfying laughs or giddy giggles, while the rest of the cast scares you into sharp barks of laughter.
They were weak, and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the centre of operations with their knees shaking like castanets. THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL
February was a month of giddy excitement. Times, Sunday Times
He was a charmingly giddy young man and upon hearing him laugh for the first time her heart skipped a beat, somewhat surprised.
The place was thronged, giddy, loud. Times, Sunday Times
That's a thought that makes a small-government conservative just giddy with anticipation, doesn't it?
Although being overtired and giddy can cause us to act out, so there is definite shenanigan potential. On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake
With hindsight, it encouraged me to experience romance as something haunted, even at its giddy beginning, by a teary ending.
Just as Christy was replacing the phone on the base, Carmen came tearing into the room, giddy as a young schoolgirl, and grabbed Christy's hand.
As with many great artists, Pollock was an undiagnosed manic-depressive whose life was characterized by periods of self-destructive binges followed by giddy bouts of joy and creativity.
The variety is enough here to make the listener giddy, especially when presented in such vivid, richly textured studio sound. Times, Sunday Times
I think that the initial giddy passion that begins many affairs is a relatively superficial and insignificant thing.
She says she has been feeling weak and giddy and has developed a widespread itchy skin rash.
There were sounds of joy in their voices, as they seemed to be giddy as young schoolgirls selling cookies.
Oh my giddy aunt!
Colour is a giddy delight. Times, Sunday Times
She seemed more giddy, ditzy and seemed entirely too comfortable with the current crowd of males she was attracting.

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