How to Use spacey in a Sentence

spacey

adjective
  • I'm a little spacey today.
  • That solved the problem of my growling stomach, but the headaches and spacey feeling were still there.
    Ashley Edwards Walker, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The visitor center is not huge but has some cool spacey stuff.
    Angela Hill, idahostatesman, 26 May 2017
  • Don't miss the spacey krewedelusion parade that follows Krewe du View.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • May is not just any rocker with an opinion about spacey stuff, either.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Like Donovan, Mac does some spacey slow note-bending guitar work.
    Mike Oliver | Moliver@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2019
  • That remix gets an extended version, as does the spacey, tribal house take from Durante.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • Grooves swing, lope and gallop, while Chris Desiderio’s distorted, spacey guitar leads stab in and out.
    Michael Hamad, courant.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Some spacey, five-out small ball could be in the mix—which is exactly where Watford could especially shine.
    Emily Caron, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Featuring DJ Future Boy, spacey cocktails and walk-up window will be open all night long.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Yet even production like his can only count for so much when achieved through blunt, straight-line creation and spacey defense to offset.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Her high-pitched, girlish voice gave her a spacey, sometimes ditsy, quality that worked well in comic roles.
    The New York Times, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
  • While many were dumbfounded by his spacey idea, Towkio's unorthodox move seemed like a natural one for him.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Williams isn’t spacey or unfocused, daft or delusional.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • West Coast Bass is a primary soundtrack, in all of its spacey, grimy, psychedelic-leaning glory.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2019
  • On Twitter, meanwhile, viewers expressed irritation with the commercials, and didn’t quite know what to make of Mr. Fielding’s soft voice and spacey demeanor.
    Noel Murray, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The 30-year-old has become a cross-genre star whose emotional, clever lyrics and inventive style blending country with electronic, disco and spacey pop sounds has earned her plenty of new fans.
    USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
  • The moodiness and haunting quality of his voice really work well with all the spacey keyboard sequences and hypnotic drum machine sounds.
    Ron Hart, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Alexander’s spacey music is fun and singers Anna Machuca and Brooke Patterson are excellent.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • Like the other commissions, Parreno’s takes a non-prescriptive approach to the way viewers look at art, acknowledging that this can be anything from focused and in-depth to spacey and oblivious.
    Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, the classic stoner had a sweet, perpetually spacey aura read only one way.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
  • Having beneficent Jupiter and elusive Neptune as your co-ruling planets hints at your innate angelic, but spacey qualities.
    Ashley Otero, Teen Vogue, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Tracks toggle between a nicely spacey openness and contrastingly frenetic and dense settings.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Mac DeMarco The indie rock fixture delivers a vibe for all seasons with this unobtrusively mournful single, whose spacey chorus is somehow perfect for both chilling on the beach and crying yourself to sleep at night.
    EW.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Hushed melodies and cooing vocals cascade over clean, arpeggiated acoustic guitar, and Risker's longtime collaborator Joshua Wentz adds keyboards and electronic enhancements that help push the material into a spacey, reverberant psychedelic zone.
    Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018

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