Example sentences for: reeling

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

  • In what is either a belated acknowledgment of your investment--and his own--or, less likely, a more directly subversive move, he starts reeling in the lines about 100 pages from the end.

  • "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."

  • Still reeling from the effects of the Persian devastation, Jerusalem was conquered in 638 by the forces of Islam.

  • Avoid the late-night métro here, unless you want to share it with reeling drunks.

  • Harkin also acknowledges the political benefit from a trial: "I think the Republicans are reeling from this," he told the New York Times .


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