Careens

Word CAREENS
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Definitions and meanings of "Careens"

What do we mean by careens?

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.

(chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.

(chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

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The word "careens" in example sentences

It takes a while to get used to the multimedia format of Shylock as the film careens from the stage to the street, from an actor soliloquizing in a theatre's grand salon to the actor doubling as Shylock and Tubal as the two characters argue with each other in a backstage dressing room. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

When Franklin the pig looks up from a fluffy bed of hay and grunts a "thank you," or Abby the horse gallops through the snow to greet her friends whom she's missed overnight, or Henrietta the turkey careens out of her cozy stall each morning because SHE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SAY HELLO. ❋ Kathy Stevens (2011)

For example, one of the grand challenges will be feeding the world population as it careens toward 9 billion or more. ❋ John Sauer (2011)

Her film starts off as a feel-good story of a coach/benefactor rescuing a child with a specific talent from a life of poverty and then careens into the wild legal and media circus swirling around Budhia Singh. ❋ George Heymont (2011)

No sooner does one minivan full of girl scouts slam into the pile of wrecked humanity and metal, then an SUV full of hungover beauty pageant runners-up careens right in behind it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The small town grasper careens off into lala land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Likewise "runway excursions," which uses its phrase status to soften its actual meaning: accidents where an airliner careens off the runway. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But Helen careens around the corner, narrowly missing an old man on a bicycle as she swerves to avoid an oncoming bus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Supremely well-written by Leary, Peter Tolan and Evan Reilly, Rescue Me careens through plots and moods like a house afire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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