How to Use vertigo in a Sentence

vertigo

noun
  • Episodes of vertigo would catch me off guard.
    — Melissa Gonzalez, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That doesn’t make the vertigo go away.
    — Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fortune, 13 May 2026
  • Adell missed his fourth game this week because of vertigo.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Be prepared for a bit of vertigo and being on the edge of your seat.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Marshall had left the game for a stint, due to symptoms of vertigo.
    — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 2 Jan. 2017
  • Senzel has been plagued my migraines and bouts of vertigo in the past.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2019
  • Danny no longer sings from the vertigo of having blown up overnight.
    — Martín Toro, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The merry-go-round has spun fast enough at times to give an entire city vertigo.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Lue last missed a game in March due to vertigo and Drew filled in for him.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Adell was scratched from the lineup because of vertigo for the third time in the last four days.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Neto has a sore wrist and Adell is getting over a bout with vertigo.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Just staring at his workplace gave me a sense of vertigo and unease.
    — 1843, 22 Nov. 2019
  • One potential juror who has vertigo sat down and couldn’t get back up.
    — Victoria Ballard, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Whipping my head about, only induced the faintest hint of vertigo.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
  • The worst part was having an episode of severe vertigo with nausea that lasted for nine days.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Readers of his book may find themselves in a similar state of moral vertigo.
    — T.j. English, WSJ, 6 June 2021
  • Thinking too deeply about such things can bring on a sort of vertigo, a feeling of centuries dropping away.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There is a specific kind of vertigo that comes with leaving a movie theater in the middle of the day.
    — Zeba Blay, SELF, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Those with vertigo should approach Fall with caution.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Stay on the opposite side until the vertigo goes away, and then sit up while keeping your head neutral.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Nov. 2025
  • This interest in names led to my having a huge amount of vertigo about Shakespeare.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • According to Lana, Steve had come down with a bout of vertigo three days prior.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The change in pressure can cause pain, vertigo, headache and nausea and in some rare cases may impact the judgment of jumpers.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2023
  • But then her fatigue came back with force, along with brain fog, shortness of breath, vertigo and a skyrocketing heart rate.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The effect is of a vast decentering, almost a state of vertigo.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Van Alen watched and worried and experienced a bout of vertigo.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Hikers who get vertigo standing on a welcome mat can still enjoy a hike on the Goat Trail.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The vertigo isn’t expected to be an issue in the future, according to a source.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, Cincinnati.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Hold the position until the vertigo stops.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Nov. 2025
  • This is a type of vertigo that happens when canaliths, which are small pieces of calcium, are floating inside your inner ear canals.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Nov. 2025

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