Example sentences for: reeling

How can you use “reeling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Smith's Diana was an ill-educated, impulsive woman who spent her adult life reeling from what Smith dubiously diagnoses as a borderline personality disorder.

  • Emerson was in his late 20s at the time, a Boston minister still reeling from the loss of his young wife, who had died of tuberculosis 14 months earlier.

  • The Wall Street Journal sees the Microsoft defense as "reeling," and says the VP with the balky video is the third straight company witness to retreat on the stand from a staked-out position.

  • Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.

  • "Things got ugly in Iowa today when Elizabeth Dole suddenly shouted, 'Off the stage, m*****f*****,' and sent George W. Bush reeling, in a scene eerily reminiscent of her husband's 1996 tumble."


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