Example Sentences

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We were already out-accelerating the cops years before Mack Sennett’s “Keystone Kops” were careering around the hills of Edendale, and before the “Fast & Furious” franchise made it look enthralling.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Look, aeroplanes!” said Michael, as they stopped before a window in which toy aeroplanes were careering through the air on wires.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

Everywhere men in cow-boy garb were careering about the streets or grouped in small crowds about the saloon doors.

From The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail by Connor, Ralph

With stealthy quiet, they were brought up and saddled; and in a few moments he and his prize were careering over the snow, with which the whole country was covered.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de