How to Use careen in a Sentence

careen

verb
  • The ball careened off Benge’s glove and to his right.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • The fleeing van then careened off a parked car and smashed through the front of the store.
    — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The ball appeared to careen off the glove and in between his legs.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Their car careens off the road, hits a rock and dumps them into a river.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The wild shootout sent a street light careening into the eatery.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Evans’s punt bounced at the two-yard line, then past the one, before careening out of bounds.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • In the months since, the two countries have careened from crisis to crisis.
    — Kevin Whitaker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The vehicle careened into a deep gorge and was swept away.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • His car hit both highway walls then careened over a snowbank and fell 70 feet.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Estabrook saw the bus careen across the offramp and over the guardrail, and raced to the ground below.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • The careening chaos can disguise how hooky the bones of their songs are, but that’s a hardcore trick too.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
  • With Good shot, the car then careens to the side of the road, crashing into a parked car.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2026
  • An excited dog might careen into a small child or an adult who is unsteady on their feet.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Billions of years ago something must have kicked it out of orbit and sent it careening here.
    — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The officer who fired the shots watches the car careen down the road and re-holsters his gun.
    — Claire Galofaro, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • In 2007, a fire careened up the canyon in a matter of hours and burned that ridge again.
    — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • That was bad news for Kermit the Frog, who careened into a tree and ripped.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The pickup was careening all over the roadway, the deputy wrote later that day.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2026
  • That was bad news for Kermit the Frog, who careened into a tree and ripped.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The truck careened into a ditch and through a perimeter fence before rolling on its roof, Cheng said.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2020
  • It’s been careening back and forth since roughly doubling in price over 12 months.
    — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • It's been careening back and forth since roughly doubling in price over 12 months.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The younger one, who wears a bright red stocking cap, whacks the bear of a guy across his face, sending him careening to the side.
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The two cars careened into a group of pedestrians in a crosswalk, Smith said.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The school bus careened off the right side of the roadway and overturned, authorities said.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Saturn careened into a traffic-light pole and the engine caught fire.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Plus, nobody will careen past you at 110 mph, scaring you spitless.
    — Allen Best, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At one point, Landeskog appeared to lose his left skate and went careening into the net and end boards.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The stage faces the church in an acoustic design that aspires to not careen sound off the Murphy's brick walls.
    — David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2020
  • Elliss hit Dart and sent him careening onto the sideline.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025

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