Pitching dangerously to one side.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
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Examples for "shift "
Examples for "shift "
1 This shift constitutes a present challenge to the entire National Health Service.
2 The balance wheel turns; the tides change; the sands of occasion shift .
3 There is a night shift , so several days a week, I'm free.
4 In recent years, however, Falls Church had undergone a dramatic ethnic shift .
5 He said many countries were already taking steps to combat climate shift .
1 I let go. I heard my voice wobble on the last words.
2 This week's policing and political earthquakes caused the Government to wobble violently.
3 The wobble compounds fears over the effect of coronavirus on the economy.
4 You want to talk, they just want to sit there and wobble .
5 But now questions are being asked of them again after another wobble .
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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Indicative · Present