How To Use Careen In A Sentence

A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
Following the impact, the truck careened into the eastbound lane of Highway 52, directly towards an oncoming van.
Suddenly from above us a twenty-foot-long heavy log burst into view, careening down the path like a bobsled.
Now, we don't know exactly what happened with the driver of this vehicle as to why he kind of careened off -- he or she careened off the road hitting this gas line. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007
This fragile monster truck of booze and soft drugs eventually careened off the road.

He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor.
Careening back onto the highway, spraying gravel as he went, Jack stomped on the accelerator and gave chase.
It careens through barricades and smashes through the side of a building and barrels through apartment after apartment, emerging on the other side.
On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through.
The three cats come racing down from the terrace, tear around our feet, and careen off single file through the corn. MOON PASSAGE
Obama, his own self, can be found careening around the country like an over-caffeinated Chihuahua engaged in a last-ditch effort to sell the bill to what you might call his hesitant posse. Columbiatribune.com stories
Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use of careen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generally careen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed. Word of the Day
Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread. Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
Wafered teams of cloudlets careen warmly in rushes of opalescence.
We were careened at a dangerous angle when I awoke and in my reduced condition it was not difficult to imagine that a capsize was to be the result. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
No matter how much she tried to sort out her thoughts, each one sent three or four new ones careening uncontrolled through her mind.
He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard. Intercession
Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you.
Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.
One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail.
Will she catch him in the lobby where he laughs cruelly at her colossal stupidity, causing her to buy a fifth of Jack and go careening ( "careering" for you Brits) around Kelrast Curve? Blogtimore, Hon
Their ship was put into port to careen and refit.
The ship careens in front of the bow and off to the port side.
What did it say about McCain's judgment and steadiness that he could careen between a liberal apostate he knew well and a frontier salvationist he knew hardly at all who's the opposite in most respects? John & Sarah in St. Paul
They careened in, some staggering and some howling loud enough to wake up the homeless in los callejón's …. On the decline of civility
In American English, careen is certainly a Lost Cause, since its use in this erroneous sense is recognised in dictionaries, but for British English it may not be too late to rescue it. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell.
They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch.
His editing job, however, is masterful, with dozens of full and partial conversations painting a dark societal picture bound to leave the most open of minds believing that western civilization really is careening down the dumper.
Instead, it careened off course and into a crowd of crew members.
Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules.
Having dispatched “career” vs. “careen”, how about “hardy” vs. “hearty”? Book Review: I love “Origins of the Specious” « Motivated Grammar
More than once, as the men made their way down Main Street, they had to step aside to let a carload of vacationers careen by. EVERVILLE
The three cats come racing down from the terrace, tear around our feet, and careen off single file through the corn. MOON PASSAGE
More than once, as the men made their way down Main Street, they had to step aside to let a carload of vacationers careen by. EVERVILLE
Just at that moment, I was thrown violently down in the seat as the bus suddenly careened to the side and gave a giant jerk.
The music business hasn't got a lot of patience for fly-by-night bands which enter the stage door running only to end up careening right out the other side.
The ship careened out of control
And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned).
A Zero careened sharply, smoking, and its engine reduced to a mere whine as it plummeted earthward.
They camped out at a local garage rock band's house and played noisy, careening rhythms to a small number of bemused punks at the old Multipurpose Rumpus Room.
The muddy road careened the truck.
She has now retired from her accounting job; this new liberation has granted her the privilege of following her artistic moods, allowing her art to flow according to its own nature, like the temperamental flooding of rivers when the skies send rain careening across a parched landscape. Arte plumaria: the feather art of Martha López Luna
The raptor folds its wings, brings its talons forward, and careens toward the outstretched wings of an unsuspecting bird flying below.
At Highgrove, he careened around the grounds on his bicycle or a skateboard, climbed so high up in trees that he had to be rescued by the local fire department, and totaled his miniature Jaguar XJS cabriolet—a birthday present from the manufacturer. William and Kate
Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her.
Both men careen dangerously and comically toward midlife crises.
It's full of people hustling to get a quick lunch with cars and buses careening down the street. Brazilian Companies Capitalize On Power Naps
We catch a glimpse of it when we are in a Jamaican taxi and the driver careen the corner missing the incoming trailer by several inches.
The driver lost control of his car when the brakes failed, and it went careening down the hill.
And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine.
Suddenly, the icicles grew in size, and snapped off, careening into the two men.
The car careened around the corner.
Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
The three cats come racing down from the terrace, tear around our feet, and careen off single file through the corn. MOON PASSAGE
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
His biggest day comes when we careen the ship, which happens twice a year.
A ten-ton Bedford with three soldiers on a joyride, careening on to the Koc road. WHITE LIES
Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside.
Obama, his own self, can be found careening around the country like an over - caffeinated Chihuahua engaged in a last ditch effort to sell the bill to what you might call his hesitant posse. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Given that what people mean when they say careen is defined precisely by career, it seems clear when people say careen they mean career. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
Brightly strewn wet fliers, that is; las feriadas are the height of the water wars, as trucks filled with young people careen through town with tanks of water, bucketing unlucky pedestrians and generally wrecking mayhem. Nathaniel Loewentheil: Deviled Dancers, Drunken Pilgrimages and the Magic of Bolivia's Carnaval
The truck careened around the corner.
Facebook with Zuckerberg at the helm is a careening accident waiting to happen. Europe’s Privacy Concerns May Hinder Facebook
The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law.
More than once, as the men made their way down Main Street, they had to step aside to let a carload of vacationers careen by. EVERVILLE
When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left.
You intend careen to mean and I quote – “moving fast and uncontrolledly” and say career in the OED means “to gallop, run, or move at full speed.” The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
The driver lost control of his car when the brakes failed, and it went careening down the hill.
The tone of the film is all over the map, careening from dirty-minded to “heartwarming” to absurdist to flat-out boring, sometimes within the space of a single scene. ALL ABOUT STEVE Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
On the night of January 3, 1935, the puddlers on Form B-1, at the upstream edge of the dam adjacent to the Arizona cliffside, heard this sinister alarum a split second before a full bucket came careening over the edge of the form. Colossus
Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left.
A pair of pickup trucks with 20mm Triple-A cannons bolted to their beds careened onto the street, two gunners dressed — somewhat bizarrely, I thought, for gunners — in short, padded black leather jackets and designer jeans, firing blindly into the air. Rogue Warrior
May their sizzle never fizzle should be the opening prayer in this mixed genre film that careens wildly from romantic comedy to big bang action movie.
Most of the time, I am living like a head without a body, just careening through my life with no regard to my physicalness. Jessica Duquette: Lost: The Deepest Part of my Being
Two men, looking like extras in a movie set in a small lakeside town in northwestern New Jersey, come careening around the corner, eyes popping.
Then they ran into a meteoroid swarm (she supposed) which rebounded off their shieldfields and sent them careening off trajectory; and the man shook his fist, commenced on a mighty oath, glimpsed her and turned it into a Biblical “Damask rose and shittah tree!” The Earth Book of Stormgate
Hey, we've careened across the Gaza coast in a donkey cart during closures of the (area formerly known as) Netzarim Junction, I think we can handle that.
He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz.
I reached the boy as the platform began to rock violently, threatening to send me and him careening into the swiftly moving water.
Ships being breamed at a careenage would have fires built under them to burn off marine growth and faggots of reeds would be in demand for the purpose and might well have been sent down river in boat load quantities.
More than once, as the men made their way down Main Street, they had to step aside to let a carload of vacationers careen by. EVERVILLE
Buchanan's first pitch got past catcher Jordan Fuller, hitting Fuller's shinguard and careening near the Central dugout. News | LD | http://www.the-dispatch.com
Well, the four of us are going to discuss plans to careen the ship.
Mei is an only child whose stable, middle-class family life is torn apart as her parents careen toward divorce.
Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.
A scooter careened into Derek, sending him flying across the blacktop road.
He loves to careen all over the store and fill his cart with things we don't need, like unripened avocados and horrible new kinds of crackers.
From my own experience, their sensation and size is so nugatory that they can often be forgotten and by the time you feel one making its way down the pipe, it's already bouncing around in your underwear or careening down your pant leg.
Sherkin was a pirate kingdom for a brief period of prosperity, providing beaches for careening ships, a safe landfall and opportunity for carousing.
He careened full force into his singer and the drum kit more than once. Binky Philips: The Damned at CBGB: The Night Punk Was Officially Born in the USA
La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned.
And anything that involves drama, film stars, morality and controversy usually careens deafening-ly around the media echo chamber like the mythic call of the Horn Resounding.
Nathan swung around, his arm just missing Kayden as he bent his knees swiftly, allowing Nathan's arm to go careening over his head.
It’s what Bajoran adolescents call careening as close as they can to the rocks when they’re out ice-sailing. ARMAGEDDON SKY
He had suspected there was something different about him the day before they started careening the ship but had no proof of what he did suspect.
They careened the fishing boat to repaint the hull.
As for "careened," you'd be surprised at the words that pop up in the Appalachian vocabulary. New Obama Ad Hammers McCain's Shaky Leadership Amid Crisis
They careened the fishing boat to repaint the hull.
Within an hour the gentle slope has careened skyward, and with each step loose bits of scree tumble down on those unfortunate enough to be bringing up the rear.
Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation.
Two cars collided and another careened across in front of oncoming traffic and it was really a bad scene.
Perhaps, the mad careening way of life might become more reflective as its mood and mode is captured in image and word.
Her own breath was coming in taut little sighing gasps as her pulse careened wildly out of control. Western Man
Ideas start and end abruptly like driving through city streets, making unexpected turns down alleys before careening back onto the major streets, highways and byways.
Brett moved beside him and sent it careening over the net.
We catch a glimpse of it when we are in a Jamaican taxi and the driver careen the corner missing the incoming trailer by several inches.
Seemingly, as was always the case in FTL flight, the ship had been hanging in black nothingness, with no semblance of motion, when it had staggered, lurching and careening through whatever limbo of foreverness in which it had been situated. Project Pope
You therefore conclude that careen is not a mis-pronunciation of career. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
Well I think they blew it using the word careened ... not a common word for rural Virginia but otherwise a good ad. New Obama Ad Hammers McCain's Shaky Leadership Amid Crisis
Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here.
They careen through our lives knocking things over, chewing things up and creating unpleasant smells, trails of mud and a level of confusion unknown to canine-free environments. Dr. Peggy Drexler: Stuart and Polly: Is There Anything Else We Can Get You?
It has been variously a careening (hull-cleaning) bay, a pirate haven, a Danish freeport, slave-market, a gun-running centre, steamship coaling station, US Naval Base and latterly a major cruise ship port.
Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Traditional mining communities disappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, blasting and increased flooding and dangers from overloaded coal trucks careening down small, windy mountain roads. Wonk Room » ACCCE’s Joe Lucas Says Mountaintop Removal Solves ‘Lack Of Flat Space’ In Appalachia
The car spun counterclockwise, slid down the track, and careened wildly across the infield grass, bringing out a caution flag that froze the field. Wild Ride
She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard.
The boat was tilted almost vertically into the turn, and my fingers scrabbled for purchase in the slippery wood of the deck that I was careening down.
He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker.
A ten-ton Bedford with three soldiers on a joyride, careening on to the Koc road. WHITE LIES
It careens into a standing wave, stalls at the crest for a moment, then is dumped into the whirlpool behind.
Careening into the cobblestone street, the blade looked like a guillotine crashing down on its victim.
Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
John had thought of leaping from the jeep just before it collided with the hangar doors, but he couldn't risk the vehicle careening wildly to crash into the Apache.
The car spun counterclockwise, slid down the track, and careened wildly across the infield grass, bringing out a caution flag that froze the field. Wild Ride
I slammed on the brakes, slid sideways and stopped just before careening into a state road truck.
In the French Concession, the city's most popular residential district, bicycles and scooters careen through the winding tree-canopied streets, holding such new buzz boites as Dr. Wine and The Apartment. The Bling Dynasty
The driver lost control and the car careened down the hill.
Boasting a solid, multi-talented cast, Inanna is clever and grand in its scope, with music that careens between harmonious and neatly dissonant.
As Juna akhara Mahamandaleshwar Pilot Baba's Innova reportedly manoeuvred the Lalpara bridge, the driver, say police sources, lost control and careened into the surging crowd, killing two women on the spot. The Times of India
The end result is a careening car that feels much more rubbery than controlled.
If, like Helen Hawkins, you don't know the meaning of the verb 'careen', you'd be wise not to use it while insulting someone else's 'fine writing'. THE HEAT BREAKS
They careened the fishing boat to repaint the hull.
Finally you reach the nadir: the flat-pack warehouse, where you struggle alone to get massive boxes off the shelves and stack them on a trolley that goes careening off if you so much as brush against it.
And while all on board were contemplating these sounds, the ship suddenly careened a-starboard, a harsh, grating noise was heard overhead, and quantities of broken crystallites began falling on deck. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
I’m once again careening back in my chair at ergonomically unfriendly angles whilst plugged up and charging. People I Hate While Travelling
More than one fellow rubbernecker judged it fortunate the truck overturned before having a chance to careen across the gravel parking lot and through the beanery's front windows.
That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned.
The driver lost control and the car careened down the hill.
A deafening roar surrounded them, growing higher in pitch as the careening ship gathered speed.
Though the Cold War in Latin America began as a tense negotiation between American rationalism and Latin revanchism, Grandin suggests that it ended with the US careening towards the latter.
Adapting a dead legend's screenplay is not unlike trying to corral a careening, unmanned bicycle: The stakes are considerable, the path can be dodgy -- and the person giving chase can expend great energy to futile effect. The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars
More than once, as the men made their way down Main Street, they had to step aside to let a carload of vacationers careen by. EVERVILLE
As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew.
The noise, loud and continuous, careened around my cranium. A DARKENING STAIN
The boy/robber careened onto the freeway on-ramp, just missing a woman pushing a grocery cart.
A ten-ton Bedford with three soldiers on a joyride, careening on to the Koc road. WHITE LIES
The novel careens bumptiously forward to a fantastical ending. Times, Sunday Times
And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine, and I almost poop my pants.
I was sent careening backwards into a tree, smashing it over.
In the few seconds it took them to realize what was happening, the truck had careened into the rear of the van with such impact that it sent the smaller vehicle hurtling like a grisly billiard shot straight at the pedestrians standing on the five-lane highway. Manifesting Michelangelo
In the past month, McCain's response to the crisis has "careened," sometimes changing course within the span of a single day and this past spring, he offered three different housing plans after admitting that he didn't anticipate the housing crisis. D-Day
Users of this expression may be surprised to discover that the original meaning of to careen is to turn a vessel over on its side [...] The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.
Deep troughs do precede these monster waves, swallowing ships as they careen into the trough and are entombed by thousands of tons of water from the breaking wave.
The driver lost control and the car careened down the hill.
She bounced it hard off the floor, and it careened off on a crazy angle.
But plenty were cowboys, too, and upon emerging from the Green Zone they drove in showy clusters of SUVs, nose to tail, cutting off traffic and careening down the streets as if they were taking fire. Welcome to the Green Zone
Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left.
America's Internet could careen away from the principles of freedom and openness it embodies -- and towards the likes of China's, with the government and corporations blocking Americans' access to large swaths of the web. Tiffiniy Cheng: The Internet Fights Back: Groups Announce Net-wide Day of Protest Against "Internet Blacklist" Bill
She careened into the library parking lot and screeched to a stop. Mercy Kill
The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw.
The melody is madly inventive and celebratory, and the singers careen around utterly at home in this mirror-world of whistles, chirps, flutes and cymbals.

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