How to Use woozy in a Sentence

woozy

adjective
  • She was already feeling woozy after her first drink.
  • Mantha hit the ice hard, and looked woozy as he was helped off the ice.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Hines got up woozy and stumbled as teammates tried to help him to his feet.
    — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The wistfulness with which the movie treats her is the wooziest thing of all.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Even the high end feels woozy and drowned, like foliage piercing a melting frost.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • They can also be used to prevent fainting or for someone who is woozy.
    — Jason Jones, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Gronkowski appeared to be woozy after the hit and walked to the locker room.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2018
  • This time, Carr’s tone is colored with a woozy, phaser effect.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 30 June 2020
  • He had been knocked woozy when State was tagged with a roughing-the-passer penalty.
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The boy is curled on his side under a blanket, his head swathed in surgical gauze, woozy and sick.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2016
  • Here’s a way to switch up that morning brew with a taste of booze but without the woozy after-effects.
    — Chris MacIas, sacbee.com, 4 June 2017
  • The first group included those who were knocked woozy for as long as a day, but did not lose consciousness.
    — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2018
  • The young duo dresses its propulsive, woozy rock riffs with lots of dreamy distortion and reverb.
    — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
  • The end came later after a clash of heads opened a deep and bloody gash on Karl’s forehead that left him woozy.
    — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The street scene was washed in a woozy blue light; a curved expanse of brick that might have been a bridge obscured what might have been a swath of sky.
    — Madelyne Xiao, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2021
  • His eyes burned and watered, his throat grew tight and his head felt woozy, turning the labels on the packages into a blur.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • Propulsive beats and woozy synths fade in and out as the trio chant the titular chorus and deliver smooth singsong raps.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This year’s winner was the smiling face with hearts emoji, followed by the pleading face and woozy face emoji.
    — Nadia Suleman, Time, 17 July 2019
  • Church was called for unnecessary roughness on the play, and Gronkowski seemed woozy on his feet.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Digitally processed yelps in the background lend the track a woozy eeriness.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The hyenas were woozy but not docile enough for blood and hair samples to be collected or for their paws to be imprinted on round pats of clay.
    — Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Still woozy from her assault, Ari passes out and falls into the lake — no one actually pushed her at all.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 June 2021
  • When the couple wakes up after their first woozy evening, their clothes have been changed to something more conservative and they’ve been locked in.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • As a rookie, Henry was knocked woozy at Atanta and missed a game two weeks later with a knee injury.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • The bigger question is how healthy the junior will be this week after getting dropped hard on his head and getting up visibly woozy.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2020
  • VanVleet was probably a bit lucky since the direct head shot initially left him looking a bit woozy on the floor.
    — Heather Tucker, USA TODAY, 9 June 2019
  • Cal Clutterbuck in Game 3 on Thursday left him woozy and wobbly legged.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • There’s woozy dream-beauty to intermittent stretches of the movie that suggests a passage between two worlds.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • Hit by Fyffe’s dart, the woozy bird crash-landed on the school’s athletic field, where Fyffe wrapped it up for return to the zoo.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • But after picking himself off the ground, the woozy Tagovailoa struggled to stay on his feet and was taken out of the game — briefly.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022

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