Sentence examples for vertiginous descent from inspiring English sources

From this thrilling landfall, sadly, it was a vertiginous descent.

Ms. Coon depicts Honey's vertiginous descent from tipsy to sodden to sickened with hilarious physical precision.

She longs to be the daughter that was, the lover gone before, and her vertiginous descent comes loaded with troubling implications.

In her mighty cry of "Lachte" — "I laughed" — she landed the vertiginous descent from high B to low C-sharp with athletic precision.

It has an ever-changing, stunning exhibition of Dior's work, but the real gem is the perfume garden, in which iconic fragrances in leafy, hidden corners can be guessed and enjoyed before a vertiginous descent down crumbling steps to the wide promenade and the vast beach.

After a vertiginous descent into meth addiction and drug dealing, I spent nine months in prison.

After 11 weeks and 9,000 miles of motorcycling under my tyres, it's the kind of road you dream of: 40 miles of hairpins galore, vertiginous descents and climbs into the clouds, tunnels, lakes and forests.

I had tired legs, was unsure I was en-route, and nervous about the vertiginous 500m descent to the village of Lubra – but I had lightness in myself.

Like so much of the comedy in the book, her descent is wrapped up in vertiginous horror – but that only heightens the humour when Esther declares she's going to get up and "do it again", and Buddy replies: "No you're not … your leg's broken in two places".

The rest of the book details the breakdown of society in a 40-storey tower block, a descent from (apparent) civilisation to savagery and chaos, a vertiginous ascent of psychosis levels and maybe, just maybe, a little cannibalism.

The effect is vertiginous.