How to use vertigo in a sentence
11 example sentences · noun
Vertigo means a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear. Example: “The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.”
More sentences with vertigo
- The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.From the entry maneuver
- Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind, a vertigo.2006, M. A. Foster, The Book of The Ler. From the entry adyt
- I needed some Pepto Bismol; I was experiencing a serious case of ideological vertigo.2000, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back, page 120. From the entry Pepto Bismol
- Vertigo had not appeared with the family collie, whom he had gigoloed to Carl Schurz Park.1968, MacKinlay Kantor, The Day I Met a Lion, page 33. From the entry gigolo
- Anxiety group characterised by palpitation, excessive micturation, vertigo, shortness of breath, gastro-intestinal disturbances, trembling, agitolalia, etc.1962, Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress, page 521. From the entry agitolalia
- The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.2002, Margery Sabin, Dissenters and Mavericks, page 86. From the entry nonadept
- We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling. From the entry elsewhere
- First that the type of game he plays is Ilinx— the pursuit of vertigo— on a highly ordered or skilled level.1972, Cinema Journal - Volumes 12-13, page 28. From the entry ilinx
- There was a brief burst of disorientation, nausea and vertigo, followed by a second rush of pseudo-air, and then I was standing.2015, Alex Hansen, Dying in Reverse. From the entry pseudoair
- Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo.2010, Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry turbid
- Similarly, the search for vertigo (ilinx) through intoxication and wild dancing creates a fantasy world which leads into a vision of the sacred.1971, Parergon - Issues 1-13, page 54. From the entry ilinx
Meaning of vertigo
- noun A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- noun A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- noun The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
Questions about vertigo in a sentence
- How do you use vertigo in a sentence?
- Vertigo is used as a noun. For example: “The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.”
- What is a short sentence with vertigo?
- “Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind, a vertigo.”
- What does vertigo mean?
- Vertigo means a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
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