What is "careered"

Usage examples of "careered".

The buggy cleared a path, jolting on its shocks as it careered along the rutted road, its bulk smashing into dazed survivors, hurling them to one side.

The thing careered into him, and he twisted away, falling back upon the stairs, kicking out in desperation.

Together they careered into the Gnomes, and Tay Trefenwyd watched bodies spin away like pieces of deadwood.

This was the first time he had shot from a running chariot, and his first three arrows flew wide of the mark, as the chariot careered into the herd of racing oryx.

The mirror was held in an unsteady hand on a rocking boat far away, and so the spot of light frequently careered off into the sky or plunged into the waves.

It careered and zigzagged for a mile, heading generally eastwards, until it petered out in a crazed salt-pan, which sported the locally renowned Large Hole in the Ground, and other improvements.

The men hastened to catch up with her, creating a wind of their own, and gloomy drawings of Hazards to Navigation rose into the air and careered back and forth, spinning and sailing lazily on the heavy air.

Piles of smoke and steam were rising up to black out the stars, and sparks careered through those clouds like meteors.

The churning ball of gasoline fire rolled across the desert as the gutted car careered out of control.

They slashed sheets of water hissing into the air, carved deep gashes into the sea which swayed crazily and sank back foaming into the boat's wake as it careered across the bay.

They careered wildly through the grass, leaping, laughing, shouting instructions to each other to head the thing off this way or that way.

A limousine careered down the street, dodging between the piles of burning garbage, and frightening an old pack animal which lurched, screeching, out of its way, stumbled against the window of a herbal remedies shop, set off a wailing alarm, blundered off down the street, and then pretended to fall down the steps of a small pasta restaurant where it knew it would get photographed and fed.

Instinct rather than thought made her cling to her horse's mane and keep her head low as they careered down a track which was nothing but one hairpin bend after another.

The minute changes of position, finding un-bruised parts of himself that might cushion the shocks as the vehicle careered down the road to Rontaluumi.

He had pulled up on the main road, just outside the settlement - the first time he had halted the jeep since he had stopped under the trees to bind Davenhill's arm, sliced open from elbow to shoulder by a fragment from one of the missiles, just as he had careered off the road and under cover.