Get to know Careen better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like tilt or lurch.
Careen meaning
- To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
- To tilt on one side.
- To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
Synonyms of Careen
Using Careen
- The main meaning on this page is: To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. | To tilt on one side. | To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
- Useful related words include: tilt, lurch, shift, wobble.
Context around Careen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Careen
- In this selection, "careen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unions, member, people, farther, bosch and down stand out and add context to how "careen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aircraft to careen off the and committee member careen bosch said. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "careen" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with careen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Edenhaven committee member Careen Bosch said the event went well. (10 words)
The last of the flying grasshoppers careen around like little aimless pinwheels. (12 words)
On December 9, 1948, the von Brauns' first daughter, Iris Careen, was born at Fort Bliss Army Hospital. (18 words)
I love watching people careen down an icy track in bobsleigh, luge or skeleton, or fly down a mountain on skis or snowboards, sail through the air in ski jumping, or do ridiculous jumps and grabs in the halfpipe or moguls events. (42 words)
In a statement, Pegasus Airlines said the plane "had a runway excursion incident" as it landed, without explaining what caused the aircraft to careen off the tarmac and end up, clinging nose first down the cliff. (36 words)
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. (28 words)
Example sentences (6)
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority.
Edenhaven committee member Careen Bosch said the event went well.
I love watching people careen down an icy track in bobsleigh, luge or skeleton, or fly down a mountain on skis or snowboards, sail through the air in ski jumping, or do ridiculous jumps and grabs in the halfpipe or moguls events.
In a statement, Pegasus Airlines said the plane "had a runway excursion incident" as it landed, without explaining what caused the aircraft to careen off the tarmac and end up, clinging nose first down the cliff.
The last of the flying grasshoppers careen around like little aimless pinwheels.
On December 9, 1948, the von Brauns' first daughter, Iris Careen, was born at Fort Bliss Army Hospital.