He found Krantz, who had been awakened by the same cause, running up undressed--another shock succeeded, and the ship careened to port.
Kloots, as from the wind's chopping round to the northward and westward, the ship was taken aback, and careened low before it.
Now came a blast of wind which careened the ship, passed over, and in a minute she righted as before; then another and another, fiercer and fiercer still.
Yet, even so, it swooped down upon us with such appalling violence that the little vessel careened until her lee sheer-poles were buried and the water was up to the coaming of the main hatch.
While off Carwar he careened the Adventure on a small islet in the harbour, which was long known as Kidd's island.
So bold were the marauders that they cruised in sight of Bombay harbour, and careened their ships in sight of factories along the coast.
But, as they stepped on deck, the boat careened suddenly, then stopped, with a sickening jolt.
In spite of protecting sand-bar and anchor, the boat careened wretchedly.
The strain increased, and the sloop careened toward the wharf until her bilge struck the water, drawing taut as bars of steel her outboard shrouds.
The sloop staggered for an instant, plunged bow under, careened to her rail, and righted herself within oar's touch of the Ledge.
She had just careenedat Placentia, and we wondered much to find such a ship in that part of the world.
The brig trembled to the embrace and careened gently, as if nestling into a beloved's arms.
As soon as the Francis was off the bar, therefore, they proceeded up the estuary for a distance of nearly two miles and secured their vessels in shallow water, where they could be careened at low tide.
But as her bows came round and presented themselves more obliquely to the gale she righted somewhat, and although she still careened until her lee rail was all but awash, she rode the furious seas as gallantly and buoyantly as a gull.
It had careened from the road, tilted itself down into a ditch and gone on across the fields, lights shooting from it in eccentric fashion.
Like some ponderous prehistoric monster about to take a drink, she careenedher way toward the stream, which, at this point, ran between high banks.
The boat was now careenedover nearly to her rail, and was darting through the water like a rocket.
The boat came round; the three sails, caught by the flaw, suddenly flew over, filled on the other side, and the Greyhound careened till she was half full of water.
If she had careened only a little more, she would have filled with water and sunk, for she was heavily ballasted.
Ethan was not entirely satisfied with the movements of the boat under sail, for she careened under the fresh breeze, till her gunwale was within an inch of the surface of the lake.
The ship careened across the billows till star and mast-top met.
The great gull soared, careened and took the air with majestic power.
Roaring, the majesty of the law careenedagainst the bed, crashed the flimsy thing to wreckage and went down.
The plane careened and Tim and Ralph were hurled against the sides of the cabin with sickening thuds as a ski crumpled under the shock and one wing drooped low, almost scraping the ice.
Lopez did not complete the sentence for a plane careened through the gap in the mountains and settled down swiftly on the field.
Careened over, rolling and crunching in the heavy swells, the Katahdin was too dangerous for close quarters, and in fact, that was the only thing that kept the circling boats at a distance from her.
They in turn towed the sunfish, the latter at the end of the rope churning up the water as it careened after the boat.
A few minutes later the boat careened over gently, and glided fast through the water, while I steered, making for an opening which Uncle Dick made out with his glass to be the mouth of a valley running up the country.
Then, as the boat careened over and glided away, he and his companion gave a hearty cheer.
They refreshed themselves at one island or another, but especially at those on the south of Cuba; here they careened their vessels, while some went hunting, and others cruised in canoes for prizes.
The ship was careened fully four streaks, and sprang a leak as before.
One minute it was racing along almost on an even keel; then, like a young horse, it seemed to take the bit in its teeth as it careened over more and more and made the water foam beneath the bows.
The tiller deserted, the vessel careened into the trough of the sea with a portentous creaking of spars and rending of canvas.
I saw her when she came in leaking last October and was careened on the beach at Sullivan's Island.
He worked coolly, without haste, as agile as a monkey when the ship careened and the sea spurted through the cracks of the gun-ports.
At the same moment the craft careened violently, and a bulky object rose partly from the water in front of it.
The boat careened and seemed to start suddenly upward on an inclined plane.
The bark was careened until the lee scuppers were submerged; and the staunch craft shook from end to end.
The hull seemed to remain in about the same position, it only having careened shoreward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "careened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
