Pitching dangerously to one side.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
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Examples for "rock "
Examples for "rock "
1 He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
2 Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?
3 The government plans to control the state before hitting rock - bottom , he said.
4 However, local climbers have long felt the area's dearth of quality rock .
5 There is a rock rising from a great turquoise sea of sand.
1 How come these ideas continue to hold sway , despite our best efforts?
2 Powerful professional interests, with widespread but ultimately ill-informed public support, held sway .
3 However in this remote region, ceremonies such as Sapana still hold sway .
4 Do you think pseudo-scientific claims have too much sway over public opinion?
5 The sway and influence behind Roumania controls the situation in the Balkans.
1 For me, the balance must always tilt strongly in favour of freedom.
2 The tilt had to be the right amount to avoid severe seasons.
3 One key difference between Earth and Mars is their tilt , he said.
4 He is the prince of the tilt - yard ; none can stand against him.
5 The rink and the ground opposite the hotel were in full tilt .
Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
1 Then I saw the blinding flash of a star careen toward its zenith.
2 To ride and float, plume and careen , to plume myself on pleasures unseen.
3 Johnny was driving too fast, the car seemed to careen around every curve.
4 The 3d July I hove my ship down on the careen to sheath her.
5 He came hither to careen , therefore hauled into the harbour and unrigged his ship.
6 But as I careen forward he steps up and catches my wrists, steadying me.
7 A new pain stabbed her, causing the room to careen .
8 Six balls haphazardly careen around inside the largely barren rectangle of the game space.
9 I careen into Uriel, bumping him harder than I intended.
10 A bigger wave than usual had half filled the launch and caused it to careen .
11 But my ships are foul with the long passage, and are in need of a careen .
12 She watched gulls careen through the cloudy air.
13 I feel like we careen from headline to headline and the real story won't emerge for years.
14 Here and there he lay in such rubbish as motionless as the effigies careen on marble biers.
15 Pulleys whine as the first of her pursuers careen down the last few hundred meters of wire.
16 Bids have started pretty low and slow, but they careen up, and my adrenaline perks up too.
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