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45 example sentences for GIDDY, such as:

1. My mum came over all giddy and had to sit down.
2. She had always been so proud of never feeling giddy.
3. I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey.
4. Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.
5. When George entered the shed, he felt his head giddy and his heart sick.

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 Meanings and Examples of GIDDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
giddy
 a.  lacking seriousness; dizzy; frivolous and lighthearted
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  These were the last words spoken by the whelp, before a giddy drowsiness came upon him, followed by complete oblivion.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
2  The Templar had in the meantime been looking out on the proceedings of the besiegers, with rather more attention than the brutal Front-de-Boeuf or his giddy companion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  But she was too ignorant and giddy for respect, and he had never loved her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
5  Through the length of five-and-twenty couples they threaded their giddy way, and a new vitality entered her form.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
6  The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
7  I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
8  I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
9  At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  She had always been so proud of never feeling giddy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  The brandy was spinning in her head now and she felt giddy and a little reckless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  Selma was a studious girl, who had not much tolerance for giddy things like Tiny and Lena; but they always spoke of her with admiration.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
13  "I felt giddy and almost overcome," Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
14  A form stood at the brow of the mountain, on the very edge of the giddy height, with uplifted arms, in an awful attitude of menace.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
15  When George entered the shed, he felt his head giddy and his heart sick.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence:
1  Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.
2  My mum came over all giddy and had to sit down.
3  I feel giddy; I must sit down.
4  The Democrats were still in giddy spirits during the convention and didn't take rivals seriously.
5  They fall in love; there's a giddy scene at a sumptuous May Ball where they dance beneath the stars.