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Two cars collided and another careened across in front of oncoming traffic and it was really a bad scene.
A Zero careened sharply, smoking, and its engine reduced to a mere whine as it plummeted earthward.
Following the impact, the truck careened into the eastbound lane of Highway 52, directly towards an oncoming van.
A scooter careened into Derek, sending him flying across the blacktop road.
And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened.
That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned.
La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned.
Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker.
They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch.
As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew.
The ball careened back into fair territory and was caught by pitcher Kip Wells but was ruled a dead ball by plate umpire Travis Katzenmeier.
But its leakiness grew worse in the tropics, and an inspection of the careened vessel in the Gulf of Carpentaria revealed the worst.
In the winter of 1989, she was a 35-year-old mother when her car skidded on black ice and careened over an embankment.
This fragile monster truck of booze and soft drugs eventually careened off the road.
Within an hour the gentle slope has careened skyward, and with each step loose bits of scree tumble down on those unfortunate enough to be bringing up the rear.
Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor.
He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through.
He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
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As the tides ebbed and flowed considerably, the ships were put on shore to be careened and graved.
The barge careened to one side, and the Modoc began to heel over.
His pictures, which for months had lain at an agent's, careened like crippled battleships, had at length begun to find a market.
Unguided, our vessel careened wildly in its mad flight, rising ever nearer the rocks above.
On May 31, after a day of torrential rain, the already weakened dam burst and water careened down the valley, destroying everything in its path.
And when we careened the Snark and had to work in the water to our necks between shocks of fever, I noted how raw trade rum helped the work along.
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