How do you use the word "dizzy" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "dizzy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "dizzy": I feel sort of dizzy and I feel like throwing up. But he suddenly felt dizzy and he sat down again in his old chair.

Dizzy Meaning

/ˈdɪzi/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

adjProducing giddiness.

Sentence Examples

I feel sort of dizzy and I feel like throwing up.

But he suddenly felt dizzy and he sat down again in his old chair.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sick ill silly

Antonyms:

well

CEFR Practice Quiz

After spinning in circles, the young child felt very ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I feel sort of ____ and I feel like throwing up.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Alas! his brain was dizzy." — 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC:

"To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder." — 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

"...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge." — 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

"the dizzy multitude" — 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

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

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