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How to use the word vertigo in a Sentence?

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I would literally have these personality changes, or these dizzy bouts or vertigo, it was just really challenging to navigate all that.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are certain things that pop up all of a sudden, side effects that you have: the fatigue, how tired you get; at times you get nauseous; honestly at times sometimes your equilibrium is messed with, almost a sense of vertigo, then the nausea. It hits you at any time, anywhere. (And) the fatigue and going out to practice and stuff, it limited me, and that really bothers me because I can’t really coach the way I coach.

Ron Rivera

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The excessive amount [ of earwax ] can cause hearing loss or ringing in your ears. Some people experience vertigo, which increases the risk of falling, right now, we see some correlation between hearing loss and cognitive decline.

Jackie Clark

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This thing has gone from 10 pounds to 15 pounds in seconds, so most people have got vertigo on this one, you need a finale at the end of a great bull market and I think Sky is going to be that finale.

Crispin Odey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For a long time after I had kind of a vertigo, in my apartment -- I live on the 17th floor -- I felt like the building was going to fall. Your mind played tricks on you.

Steve McCurry

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The vertigo is a difficult thing, it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it, i've had it before and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open and that knocked me off my feet.

Jason Day

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I had never seen anything like this, and I've been in New York for over 20 years ... there's a sense of vertigo as they drop -- you want to hold on as it falls.

Stephen Mallon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

Ogden Nash

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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