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The phrase "a dizzy spell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a temporary feeling of lightheadedness or vertigo.
Example: "After standing up too quickly, I felt a dizzy spell and had to sit down for a moment."
Alternatives: "a bout of dizziness" or "a moment of lightheadedness."
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He has a dizzy spell in the street, and goes briefly to Saint-Malo to recuperate.
As the Heat center suffered a dizzy spell, Ward felt nothing.
("I must have had a dizzy spell and fainted," she says later).
(Once, in a dizzy spell, she almost fell on the tracks).
I had a dizzy spell while loading the dishwasher in Spain, followed by seven or eight hours of severe nausea.
Other than a dizzy spell in the third, which Reed solved with water and one bite of a nutrition bar, he had little trouble.
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It wasn't long ago, they helpfully remind me, that the vain little French cockerel made a right old fool of himself courtesy of an embarrassing "dizzy spell" during an ill-fated attempt to comply to his glamorous wife's newly enforced fitness regime.
But there is an air of maturity and satisfaction about her that was missing here in the second round of the doubles last year, when she left the tournament suffering from a mysterious dizzy spell after serving four double faults in a row.
There was an obvious guffaw from Sydney, closely followed by the sound of my wife's head hitting the desk due to a sudden dizzy spell".
A young or old person can one day feel a lump, have a fainting or dizzy spell, experience an unusual chest pain or be advised that there is a shadow on a routine X-ray.
A sudden stomach ache, headache, or dizzy spell is a great excuse to have to leave.
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