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Example sentences for "careening"

Lexicographically close words:
cards; care; cared; careen; careened; career; careered; careering; careers; carefree
  1. The fish-oil and galagal for the careening and repairing of the ships amounts to nine hundred pesos.

  2. On the 9th we left Careening Bay; and passing out between Cape Brewster and the Coronation Islands entered a spacious sound which was called Brunswick Bay in honour of that illustrious house.

  3. One of these trees has been introduced in the view of the encampment at Careening Bay.

  4. From Cape Brewster the land extended for six miles to Cape Wellington round which there appeared to be a communication with the water seen over the hills of Careening Bay.

  5. The others caught sight of the careening ice-racer soon after Dot and Tess first shouted.

  6. Ruth saw them coming, but had no idea at first that the careening ice-racer was the small boat that Neale and her sister had engaged for the run up the lake.

  7. Luke pulled her back into her seat when she would have stood up to watch the careening scooter.

  8. The spurts are not in a straight line, for the curvature of a small wave deflects the course of the projectile and sends it careening this way or that.

  9. Some time afterwards, about a dozen of our men from the Success and Speedwell were sent to Calao, to assist in careening and fitting out the Flying-fish, designed for Europe.

  10. Dampier was not with them at this time; but in describing the Galapagos Isles, he makes the following mention of Davis's careening place.

  11. One of those Islands, named =Santa Maria de l'Aguada= by the Spaniards, a Careening Place of the Buccaneers.

  12. There feeling the tremendous refluent wave, she went careening over and over toward the sunken reef.

  13. Needless to say, he smashed it into bits and then careening up to the bar, he simply asked: "How much do I owe?

  14. Then all at once something swung by as the ship rose after careening over and literally rolling in the hollow between two great waves.

  15. Aleck and Bill Hayden went careening away toward the north, and one of the two strangers went so far west that he got lost.

  16. Mary V turned to ride up to him, advanced a rod or two and abruptly retreated, bolting straight through the group of riders and careening away across the level, with Bill and Tex tearing after her.

  17. Their dust moved with them, breezes lifting it and carrying it careening back to them where it mingled with new dust, hanging dense like a segment of fog in the scene's raw brilliancy.

  18. On the uplands above, the shadows were lengthening, and at intervals a light air caught up swirls of dust and carried them careening away in staggering spirals.

  19. M'Mahon's division was to storm the Malakhoff works; Dulac's division the Redan of Careening Bay; and in the centre the division of La Motterouge was to march against the Curtain which unites those two extreme points.

  20. The batteries at Careening Bay and at the north side of the harbour contributed their fire.

  21. The English were to storm the Great Redan, and we were to carry the Malakoff Tower, the redan of the Careening Bay, and the intrenchments which cover that extremity of the faubourg.

  22. The Inkerman and Careening Bay Batteries were almost silent for three-quarters of an hour before they replied to the French batteries on our right.

  23. Generals Mellinet and Uhrich marched with that fine body of men, rallied the stragglers in the ravine of Careening Bay, and gave a solid support to General de Failly, by occupying the bottom of the ravine.

  24. The Second Brigade, commanded by General de Failly, was to make an attempt on the right of the redan of Careening Bay.

  25. Careening is the operation of heaving down a ship on one side, in order to expose the other side for cleaning.

  26. She was what the French call a detraquee; she had enjoyed good intelligence and an active mind, but her wits had left the rails and were careening about the country.

  27. Careening like a deserted airship the O Moo appeared to plunge prow first down an endless abyss, only to climb laboriously up on the other side.

  28. By the aid of the feeble light she saw her opportunity to vault over a careening chair and to make a dash for it.

  29. The Happy Delivery was careening at Torbec on the south-west of Hispaniola.

  30. Haste was, above all things, necessary, for upon any day the careening might be finished, and the pirates out at sea once more.

  31. Why, Master Craddock, the pirate ship came back from its careening upon the very day that you left us.

  32. For a hundred yards he struggled on, with the car careening back and forth across the road and with much churning and slipping of tires.

  33. The driver waved at him wildly, shouting obscenities as he swerved past and went careening down the street.

  34. This haven of Port Desire was found very favourable for careening and graving of ships, as the tide there ebbed and flowed considerably.

  35. At one end of St Paul's Island, there is a good careening place, in a deep channel inclosed by the land, into which the entrance is on the north side, where the tide rises ten feet.

  36. Two men can stand upright upon the flooring of the hold and paddle her along rapidly, with very little careening to right or left.

  37. Farrow ironed out her course and aimed the careening car dead center.

  38. The struggle to regain control of the careening car.

  39. The baby, the mother, and the heavy water-jug were in the centre of that narrowing ring, and the natural and spontaneous thing to do was to run in the direction away from the careening harvester.

  40. As they rounded the corner and turned toward the north, a sudden puff of wind jerked the shapeless straw hat from Luther's head and sent it careening dizzily over the stubs of the hay field at the right.

  41. Having finished the placing of the top riders in the Sirius by the end of October, we took our provisions and stores on board; and on the 7th of November, we moved the ship from Careening Cove over to Sydney Cove.

  42. He paused breathless, watching the exciting scene of the lugger careening over, as she raced through the water.

  43. Nor did I dare to press her with any more canvas, for she was already showing more than was at all prudent, the stronger puffs careening her to her gunwale and taxing my seamanship to the utmost to prevent her from filling.

  44. Just head towards town and keep a-going till I say when," he told her, and she nodded and sent Jawn careening down over the rough tracks which Casey had missed by a quarter of a mile or less.

  45. He cast a hasty thought back into his past, when he had driven a careening stage between Pinnacle and Lund, strewing the steep trail with wreckage not his own.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "careening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beveled; bias; biased; broken; canting; capricious; catchy; choppy; dangling; desultory; disconnected; discontinuous; eccentric; erratic; fitful; flickering; fluctuating; halting; inclined; inclining; inconstant; intermittent; irregular; jerky; leaning; listing; lurching; patchy; pitched; pitching; rambling; recumbent; reeling; rocking; rolling; rough; scrappy; sidelong; slant; slanted; slanting; sloping; spasmodic; spastic; sporadic; staggering; swaying; swinging; tilting; tipped; tipping; tipsy; uncertain; unequal; uneven; unmethodical; unsettled; unsteady; unsystematic; variable; veering; wandering; wavering; wobbly