Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He’s discovered planets in other solar systems and solved a centuries-old puzzle: yes, it turns out eventually the planets in the solar system will careen away from the sun.

From Forbes • Jan. 5, 2015

It will be hard to balance yourself at first, and you will careen uneasily one way or the other; no matter, you will get over it somehow.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various