Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use dizzy in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Dizzy means experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded. Example: “I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.”

Examples of dizzy by meaning

adjectiveExperiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

  • I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

adjectiveProducing giddiness.

  • We climbed to a dizzy height.

adjectiveEmpty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

  • My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

adjectiveSimple, half-witted.

  • Them as diz ’at is dizzy.1952, Albert Lyon Hoy, An Etymologal Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect

verbTo make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

  • So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian

More sentences with dizzy

  • I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.From the entry fluey
  • I felt dizzy and fainting at places, but I still made it to the finish line.From the entry at places
  • The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them.From the entry dizzying
  • But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023. From the entry vertiginous
  • With the short notice to leave Nuwara Eliya, Bill and I plunged into dizzied activity.2023, Wendy Nordick, Indelible: A Social Worker in the Wake of Civil War. From the entry dizzied
  • After she hangs up, Ava feels dizzy with instantaneous regret and exhiliration.2021, Hala Alyan, “Park Slope Wives”, in The Arsonists’ City: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, part I, page 20. From the entry takesy-backsy
  • It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon. From the entry zoomorphize
  • For a moment I thought I did, a scent so heady and sweet it made me dizzy.2017, Carol Goodman, The Widow’s House, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry maple syrupy
  • The French toast bagel here didn’t seem especially French-toasty, but Dobbs was almost dizzy with desire.2012 July 20, Peter Genovese, “Chewing over the choices: Munchers search for Jersey's best bagels”, in NJ.com, archived from the original…. From the entry French-toasty
  • The infamous purple drank made me dizzy and sick, but I loved its aftertaste.2007, Kenny Attaway, Slum Beautiful, page 40. From the entry purple drank
  • I put a mask on that made me dizzy and woozed.1999, The Leo & Antonia Gershanov Holocaust Arts & Writing Contest of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois. From the entry woozed
  • After an hour at school she was soaked with sweat, dizzy, and headachy.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry headachy
  • Mungo begins to feel dizzy – almost as if he'd drunk too much claret or gill-ale.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 8. From the entry gill-ale
  • The cheese aspired to dizzy gustorial heights in the mouths of campus fromagophiles.1969 April 18, Clay G. Greighbome, “In the mouths of fromagophiles”, in The Observer, page 7, column 4. From the entry fromagophile
  • Dizzy refused to pose with a blonde chorine clad only in step-ins.1934 October 25, “Dizzy and Daffy Begin Careers in Vaudeville”, in The Washington Reporter, retrieved 05 Aug 2013, page 12. From the entry take to the cleaners
  • He escaped at last, dizzy from the maelstrom of conflicting emotions that had caught and whirled him.1922, Harry Leon Wilson, “‘Five Reels—500 Laughs’”, in Merton of the Movies, Garden City, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Page & Company…. From the entry maelstrom
  • Given the dizzying pace of microtrends, it seems anything can hit virality, then disappear in a TikTok second.2025 September 5, Erika Stalder, “Scouted: Why Luxury Brands Want Your Home and Body to Smell Like Tomatoes: Taylor Swift’s favorite red…. From the entry tomato girl
  • If you’ve ever felt an adrenaline rush before, you likely felt shaky, weak, or dizzy once it passed.2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, in The Freedom Center. From the entry stimulant
  • If this seems dizzying, the next bit might require Dramamine.2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic. From the entry dramamine
  • I also heard everything about that theydy-friend you were dizzy with, that they were the rat all along.2023, Aubrey Wood, Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Solaris, →ISBN. From the entry theydy
  • She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry homebrewed
  • From party-sized accessories to individual vapor pen electronic “cigarettes,” the ways to enjoy your weed have multiplied at a dizzying rate.2015, Cheri Sicard, Mary Jane: The Complete Marijuana Handbook for Women. From the entry vapor pen
  • The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.2012, Casimir Greenfield, Bloodstones. From the entry faintful
  • There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.2011 March 14, Ciaran Giles, “Spaniards eat up Cdn guitarist; Flamenco guitar traditionally an area dominated by men”, in Trail Times…. From the entry rasgueo
  • She was even more dizzied to realize there was true hunger in his voice and that the hunger was for her.2010, Bethany Campbell, Don't Talk to Strangers, page 3. From the entry dizzied
  • Klein has streamlined and centralized the dizzying array of admission procedures for the city’s prekindergartens and middle schools.2008 June 6, Jennifer Medina, “Parents Find Frustration With Process at Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry prekindergarten
  • Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.2006, J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome. From the entry spinny
  • Kenny is beginning to feel dizzy and sags.2006, Don Otey, chapter 56, in Terror’s Mask, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry feel like
  • Besides, after two minutes of stretching and beaming my eyes in his direction, all I got was a dizzy spell—telepathetic, really.2005, Ian Souter, Pocket Tales Year 6 Twenty Pounds and All That Nonsense, page 19. From the entry telepathetic
  • I was kinda dizzy," Redman said . . .2003 October 11, Tom Singer, “Redman delivers quality start”, in MLB.com, retrieved 19 Jan 2010. From the entry ring someone's bell
  • If this kept up, I′d get dizzy and pass out.2001, Shane Maloney, chapter I, in The Brush-Off, page 286. From the entry Reg Grundys
  • As we chopstuck our way through dizzying medley of dishes, Mariko told me she was back working at the university.2001, Josie Dew, The Sun In My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East, London: Time Warner, page 256. From the entry chopstuck
  • Boon couldn't handle my inswingers, Waugh had no idea with my off-cutters and my leggies were making Taylor dizzy.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 7. From the entry off cutter
  • The smell of sweat and riverwater and the warm boysmell of Alec's hair and shoulders made her dizzy.1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A.), New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, published 1937, →OCLC, page 143. From the entry boysmell
  • With the first dizzy swing from tree to tree all the old joy of living swept over him.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 119. From the entry swing

Meaning of dizzy

  1. adjective Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
  2. adjective Producing giddiness.
  3. adjective Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

Full definition of dizzy

Questions about dizzy in a sentence

How do you use dizzy in a sentence?
Dizzy is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.”
What is a short sentence with dizzy?
“Them as diz ’at is dizzy.”
What does dizzy mean?
Dizzy means experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dizzy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use dizzy in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/dizzy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.