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Definition of "careening" [careening]

  • Present participle of careen. (verb)

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Use "careening" in a sentence
  • "She has now retired from her accounting job; this new liberation has granted her the privilege of following her artistic moods, allowing her art to flow according to its own nature, like the temperamental flooding of rivers when the skies send rain careening across a parched landscape."
  • "I’m once again careening back in my chair at ergonomically unfriendly angles whilst plugged up and charging."
  • "It’s what Bajoran adolescents call careening as close as they can to the rocks when they’re out ice-sailing."