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.

  • 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.

  • What Huang's higher-ups at the DNC can most be faulted for is not following suspicions they should have had about the huge sums he was reeling in.

  • But the American land of opportunity that goes reeling by in the background turns out to be a nightmare of free-floating violence and organized fascism (brilliantly imagined, by the way), until the America of A Cool Million has outdone in scariness even the America of Kafka's Amerika . West's hero loses his thumb, his teeth, his leg, his scalp, and his nose; and the creepier his sufferings become, the funnier is the book, sad to say.

  • 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.


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