Sentence examples for vertiginous in from inspiring English sources

From the top deck the view is vertiginous; in the heat of a Rio winter the indigo water far below is inviting.

The angle at Camden Yards is steep, almost vertiginous, in an effort to shoot over what looks like a very tall net.

The hike, which affords magnificent vistas, takes about 30 minutes and, though not difficult, can be a bit vertiginous in places.

An illusion, of course, like that of infinite depth produced by facing mirrors, but there is still something vertiginous in the contemplation of these works' self-sustaining intelligence.

Lowell, the greatest poet ever to be descended from the high Wasp line, never too far from Boston and New York, should have been at home in the world; and yet he was restless, almost vertiginous in his sometimes self-destructive energies.

"Rollercoaster" is a nickname for part of the 6.5-mile mountain bike trail that circuits the Llys-y-Frân reservoir on the edge of the Preseli hills – its contours may be vertiginous in parts, but this traffic-free route offers a scenic challenge for family groups who don't mind pushing in places.

Prince's devotion to the put-on is among his bona fides in a generation that of punk, deconstruction, and David Letterman addicted to vertiginous irony: in-jokes with nothing in them.

Prince's devotion to the put-on is among his bona fides in a generation — that of punk, deconstruction, and David Letterman — addicted to vertiginous irony: in-jokes with nothing in them.

Figures from Eurobarometer, the EU's polling organisation, analysed by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, show a vertiginous decline in trust in the EU in countries such as Spain, Germany and Italy that are historically very pro-European.

All of which puts in perspective the vertiginous plunge in the stock market.

His penchant for endless, vertiginous space in mountainous scenery ties in with Romanticism.