Example Sentences

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The accident, which saw the picture-postcard 19th-century Gloria tramway hurtle into a building after careering off the rails, shocked the Portuguese capital, laying bare fears over the safety of the popular yet ageing tourist attraction.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

The club doesn’t intend to keep careering ahead this way forever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 11, 2025

Only after that point could turmoil begin: It was shattered by an impact and shifted outward to the asteroid belt, where subsequent impacts would have formed the Athor family and sent some careering toward Earth.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 16, 2024

With this show, the director “takes an established musical by the scruff of the neck and sends it careering into the modern day,” Wolf added.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2024

After its path is further changed by gravitational encounters with Jupiter or Saturn, it tends to find itself, once every century or so, careering toward the inner solar system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan