How To Use Vertiginous In A Sentence
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I felt vertiginous just looking up at the ceiling.
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The moment when Jonas watches his sleepwalking self peer into the camera at his awakened self (or vice versa?) is almost vertiginous in its self-referentiality.
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It's a "party town": bum-skimming skirts, plunging tops and vertiginous heels are standard uniform for every female holidaymaker.
Are SlutWalkers losing their way? | Victoria Coren
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Yet its vertiginous economic climb is not reflected by any deeper cultural understanding.
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The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road.
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Five miles of twisting narrow lanes then a mile-long descent ending in a vertiginous 30% decline with tight blind hairpin bends.
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And the percentage of total births that are illegitimate has held relatively steady in recent years, after a vertiginous 50-year climb.
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Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
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The surfaces of these complex, radically vertiginous paintings are built up with transparent and opaque acrylics.
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Hadid's graphics remind me of the steep perspectives and vertiginous sweep of illustrations in science fiction comics.
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Three vertiginous pillars of wicker baskets and colourful textiles frame the back of the stage.
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There are beautiful designer dresses dangling from rails, vertiginous heels lined up beside them - but they seem to hold little interest.
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The remaining euro bulls bay for an immediate response from Euroland's monetary officials, be it through intervention or further rates hikes, in order to check the vertiginous slide of the currency.
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Health is still a concern for an artist who used to team vertiginous high heels with a walking stick on stage.
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At Glacier Point, a full vertiginous mile above the valley floor, even the sequoias seem dwarfed by Half Dome, the greatest ornament in a landscape brimming with wonders.
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Today, she is wearing a layered, backless dress constructed of unmatching cloth panels and vertiginous gold Mary-Janes.
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For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism.
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Where Calvino's book explores the vertiginous possibilities of literature, Cloud Atlas is about humankind's possibilities.
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I almost called it "live action" something else, a kind of psilocybin cotton candy, the sheer vertiginous beauty of which at times engenders feelings not unlike rapture of the deep.
He Does It Because He's Driven
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Then he shot his first 8mm movie, which excited him even more than a dizzying run down a vertiginous ski trail.
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Wayne Du Plooy Weathering Heights: Kloofing enthusiast and private guide Teuns Kok beginning the first abseil down a vertiginous waterfall of Ostrich Kloof, South Africa.
Between a Rock and a Waterfall
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The other sightseers will not distract you as you gaze in awed silence (or perhaps vertiginous terror) at the fairy-tale islands of rock amidst the cloud.
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Mathiolus, in his fifth book of Medicinal Epistles, reckons up scorzonera, [4131] not against poison only, falling sickness, and such as are vertiginous, but to this malady; the root of it taken by itself expels sorrow, causeth mirth and lightness of heart.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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She stepped out into the dappled sunshine, her heels impressively vertiginous.
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With an estimated price of $40-50 million, the bidding started at $20m and rose vertiginously.
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He was to suffer the dip that often follows vertiginous success.
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Perhaps the road itself keeps them here; evidence of its former incarnation as a cracked, ill-tended, vertiginous country byway.
The Last Highway
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You leave the bus and find yourself on a vertiginous cliff, staring across the Atlantic.
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There is something vertiginously sublime about contemplating timescales that are exponentially longer than our own lives.
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Be sure to pay a visit to the cliffs at Old Head of Kinsale as you head out, but beware - their vertiginous drop will put Blarney Castle in the shade.
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Inside the Lada, the mood swings vertiginously between country-lovesick and Elvis Crespo's power salsa.
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a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
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Suddenly, just ahead, it plunged down into the most vertiginous descent I'd ever seen, not counting the Drop Zone at the local amusement park.
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Whereas Light Extracts took you from vertiginous loops to sheer noise terror, Connected's delights emerge in the details.
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Their journey is over high mountain passes, through the narrowest of ridges with vertiginous drops on either side.
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In the society of survival, where the agonistic and vertiginous play of the potlatch is displaced by accumulation, an awareness of this has a deleterious effect on humanity.
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In this vertiginous mode, Armantrout can sound less like other ‘Language writers’ than like an improbably terse stand-up comic.
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The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road.
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She is also responsible for a white rail along the vertiginous, narrow wooden stairs embedded in the wall.
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Although it is tempting to get close to the edge the terrain is daunting - a 12m drop deters clumsy, vertiginous or litigious tourists.
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The ingenious and learned M. Sauvage has mentioned other theories to account for the apparent circumgyration of objects in vertiginous people.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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You leave the bus and find yourself on a vertiginous cliff, staring across the Atlantic.
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From the lentisk bushes and the cypress of the north to the shingle sands of Skala in the south, from the underground lakes of Sami in the east to the vertiginous slopes of Petani in the west, Arsenios trudged and sermonised.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism.
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He was to suffer the dip that often follows vertiginous success.
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A vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff.
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She is also responsible for a white rail along the vertiginous, narrow wooden stairs embedded in the wall.
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Klipspringers and common jackals are also a regular sight on the plateau, and with luck you may even spot Walia ibex expertly balancing on the vertiginous rock ledges.
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Her case is misdiagnosed, and she finds herself swept into vertiginous cycles of self-loathing and ecstasy, paranoia and visionary exaltation.
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She is also responsible for a white rail along the vertiginous, narrow wooden stairs embedded in the wall.
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This year's vertiginous drop in the Nasdaq market has caused Shin to rethink its timing, but its preparations are well advanced.
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Even in unfancy restaurants, the mark-ups are vertiginous.
Wine: You can count on barbera
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I also was astonished by how different the aesthetic system wasthe vertiginous staircases, the corbel arches, the huge reliefs, etc.
A Conversation with Charles C. Mann
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As in the New York skyscraper photographs that followed, Church Street El features the blank faces of several buildings seen from a steep vertiginous view.
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Often using samples with their pitch shifted upwards, he makes the tracks ripple around Jay-Z's voice, lighter than air and slightly vertiginous.
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Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
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Team with vertiginous gladiator sandals for an extra edge.
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The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant.
_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
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As she lifted herself up from the computer console, walking towards her cabin in a dizzy, almost vertiginous way, she tripped on a sharp object.
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And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
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His small, vertiginous banana farm, fringed with avocado and palm trees, is at Marigot on Dominica.
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Is the high as vertiginous?
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There are beautiful designer dresses dangling from rails, vertiginous heels lined up beside them - but they seem to hold little interest.
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But this rolling of the eyes, after revolving till we become vertiginous, cannot cause the apparent circumgyration of objects, in a direction contrary to that in which we have been revolving, for the following reasons.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Ahead was a vertiginous climb the likes of which should be reserved for Chris Bonnington or one of those Everest chappies with their oxygen tanks.
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For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism.
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Health is still a concern for an artist who used to team vertiginous high heels with a walking stick on stage.
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Again the scene was skewed and vertiginously raked.
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My antipathy is not the result of some journalistic hangover from years of writing and reading stories about bungled management, deadline-defying delays and vertiginous cost rises.
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From the top of the mountain there was a vertiginous drop to the valley below.
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Is the high as vertiginous?
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Its northern flank swooped up from the corrie floor at a vertiginous angle.
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Their target is the larger "industrial" vessels, after a "vertiginous fall" in anchovy catches in the Bay of Biscay.
Frog eats Frog
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Filled with paradoxes, each of the pieces is absurd in its own right, from Robert Therrien's vertiginous, spiralling bed to Serge Comte's Post-It note nudies to Peter Land's endlessly looping fat-man-falling-down-the-stairs video.
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The vertiginous episodes tend to grow less frequent and less severe as hearing loss progresses.
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Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
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I expect for some, the vertiginous image itself may be sufficient to provoke an unwelcome return of barely repressed memories, so perhaps this staple of suspense flicks will be proscribed too.
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We made our way along a vertiginous precipice, the vast drainage of Muddy Creek spread below us like some scarlet kingdom.
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To reach the outside world, you have to drive 50 miles of vertiginous, winding canyon roads, where cell-phone service is dodgy at best.
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Wayne Du Plooy Kloofing enthusiast and private guide Teuns Kok begins the first abseil down a vertiginous waterfall of Ostrich Kloof, Volstruiskloof, South Africa.
Up and Down Canyons
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For those not of a vertiginous disposition, it is well worth a climb to the top of the round tower dominating the graveyard.
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For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism.
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We raced up gravel hillsides with stomach-churning vertiginous views all around.
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They perform a mixture of ballet and acrobatics at vertiginous heights.
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She stepped out into the dappled sunshine, her heels impressively vertiginous.
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