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Examples of careen
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In Los Angeles, history often seems to careen on with hardly a backward glance.
From the latimes.com
As you careen and galavant around town on your Schwinn your mobile gets juiced.
From the techcrunch.com
And that means drivers have to careen their necks around to see fully behind them.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The two careen recklessly over the side-scrolling landscape to meet the stork.
From the usatoday.com
The pirates stopped at Santa Cruz to careen and clean their vessels in January 1717.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Swollen waterfalls careen over spongy tundra and trickle down steep ravines.
From the kansas.com
What's more, the neighbors will never hear the music careen around inside.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Elsewhere, things careen from satirical to sophomoric to sincere and back.
From the latimes.com
Above all, populist uprisings usually careen out of control, driven by mindless anger.
From the newsweek.com
- Stagger: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
- Rock: pitching dangerously to one side
- Move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"
- Careening a sailing vessel means to beach it at high tide in order, usually, to expose one side or another of the ship's hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out.
- To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line; To tilt on one side; To lurch or sway violently from side to side; To tilt or lean while in motion. [from late 19th c.]; To career. ...
- (careenage) a beach with a steep, sandy shoreline on which a ship may be careened; the expense of careening a ship
- (careened) turned over on its side
- (Careening) Process where a wooden ship is taken to shallow waters, the masts pulled to the ground, and the ship placed on its side so it can be repaired and cleaned.
- (Careening) Removing barnacles & other things that slow a ship down.
