VERTIGO in a Sentence

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Example sentences for VERTIGO, such as:
1. Athos was seized with a kind of vertigo.
2. Milady let her head sink between her two hands, and tried to recall her ideas, whirling in a mortal vertigo.
3. When you test potential airplane pilots, my vertigo is at a point where the highs and the lows are varying a lot.
4. But he had not long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may be designated as the call of the abyss.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of VERTIGO
vertigo
 n.  a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
Classic Sentence:
1  Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to vertigo.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
3  But he had not long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may be designated as the call of the abyss.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
4  The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo was left with him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
5  Athos was seized with a kind of vertigo.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
6  Milady let her head sink between her two hands, and tried to recall her ideas, whirling in a mortal vertigo.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
7  Edmond was seized with vertigo; he cocked his gun and laid it beside him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
Example Sentence:
1  When you test potential airplane pilots, my vertigo is at a point where the highs and the lows are varying a lot.