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    Use "giddiness" in a sentence

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    giddiness


    1. Of course, Roidon hadn’t admitted to this giddiness


    2. A giddiness suddenly overcomes me while peering into the Earth's blackness


    3. “Is this just the giddiness of old age?” he mumbled as he stepped through the opening


    4. Suddenly all on board felt a sort of giddiness


    5. also began to feel overcome with a giddiness that spread through


    6. Henri gasped in giddiness


    7. He laughed at her giddiness, turning to receive his cane


    8. being new parents and the giddiness that made us want to “do


    9. They included alteration of vision with illusions, disturbances of hearing, taste and smell, numbness of the face, confusion, giddiness and delirium


    10. Just pulled down, across, making gaps of a few square inches, all it takes, that connection, that giddiness, that hint of it

    11. Without enough oxygen to nourish its cells, the brain cannot function, causing confusion as well as giddiness


    12. I often suffered from giddiness and used to retire to the ladies' room till I felt more composed and generally, I'd find this Miranda lurking in there, quite furtively, as though she didn't want anyone to see her


    13. horrendous moment on the bridge, why had It not taken him instead? Giddiness whirled


    14. Gone was the giddiness of murder and love, replaced by professional, clinical appraisal


    15. The swords with a history written upon them from the grasp of my father’s hands were in some ways a boost of confidence that helped stifle the unsteady giddiness I was feeling in my stomach


    16. He was in full possession of his faculties, free from confusion or giddiness, but his hands were still trembling


    17. "Do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva that the devils carried flying through the air riding on a stick with his eyes shut; who in twelve hours reached Rome and dismounted at Torre di Nona, which is a street of the city, and saw the whole sack and storming and the death of Bourbon, and was back in Madrid the next morning, where he gave an account of all he had seen; and he said moreover that as he was going through the air, the devil bade him open his eyes, and he did so, and saw himself so near the body of the moon, so it seemed to him, that he could have laid hold of it with his hand, and that he did not dare to look at the earth lest he should be seized with giddiness


    18. He passed his hand over his face, like a man seized with giddiness


    19. Then to explain his visit he said that his ploughman, the man of the blood-letting, still suffered from giddiness


    20. She was seized with giddiness, and from that evening her illness recommenced, with a more uncertain character, it is true, and more complex symptoms

    21. A giddiness seemed to her to detach itself from this mass of existence, and her heart swelled as if the hundred and twenty thousand souls that palpitated there had all at once sent into it the vapour of the passions she fancied theirs


    22. Yes, indeed, I replied, and equally incompatible with the management of a house, an army, or an office of state; and, what is most important of all, irreconcileable with any kind of study or thought or self-reflection--there is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body


    23. "Have done! How dare you show your giddiness here? What would Mr


    24. discover, and which, perhaps, in that season of giddiness and levity,


    25. "Another attack of giddiness," said Morrel, clasping his hands


    26. before a swimming giddiness spun her round and round, she knew that she was kissing


    27. It was almost as if he had willed the calm fell on her spirit, her head began to stop spinning and even the giddiness of the brandy was lessened


    28. John’s widow gave evidence at the inquest, declaring that her husband was “a sober man and that he had never complained of giddiness


    29. his faculties, free from confusion or giddiness, but his hands were still trembling


    30. “Well, there were a few moments of giddiness, at least at the beginning

    31. That’s what caused the giddiness


    32. I supposed it one of the maids, and I cried—‘Have done! How dare you show your giddiness here; What would Mr


    33. Homer would have come thither to laugh with Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage from Hecuba to la Mere-Grand


    34. Then he experienced a giddiness


    35. catastrophe, of those who condemned as well as of the man condemned,—he had looked on those things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind Louis XVI


    36. He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay


    37. On the part of the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the I so swollen that it bars the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, impure and simple ignorance


    38. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good


    39. Use an infusion of the whole plant for chest complaints or one just of the root to relieve giddiness caused by loss of blood and to clean wounds and sores


    40. I MUST beg the reader to remember again that I had a slight giddiness in my head ; if it had not been for that I should have acted and spoken differently

    41. I only know that afterwards, when everything was quiet again and every one understood what had happened, the court usher came in for a reprimand, though he very reasonably explained that the witness had been quite well, that the doctor had seen him an hour ago, when he had a slight attack of giddiness, but that, until he had come into the court, he had talked quite consecutively, so that nothing could have been foreseen—that he had, in fact, insisted on giving evidence


    42. Nothing, however, happened; nothing except general intoxication, idiotic insults from drunkards, and general giddiness of heated heads


    43. I seem to be sleepy, I've a giddiness in my head


    44. Soon or late some mania seizes upon its possessors—they fall from the dizzy height through the giddiness of their own heads


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    Synonyms for "giddiness"

    giddiness silliness dizziness lightheadedness vertigo

    "giddiness" definitions

    an impulsive scatterbrained manner


    a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall