vertiginous

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To call the experience of seeing it vertiginous, dizzying, eye-opening and a bit frustrating would be an understatement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Arguably the most significant development in efforts to curb climate change -- the vertiginous cost reductions of solar and wind power, batteries and electric vehicles -- was seeded long before Paris.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

As Johnson puts it, “the vertiginous reality is that now, in the 2020s, we are once again living through the 1970s.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024

She finds Vivian’s parents’ full names in the passenger records log— Patrick and Mary Power from County Galway, Ireland—and feels a vertiginous thrill, as if fictional characters have suddenly sprung to life.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline