Meanings of careening off in English

I had a sudden vision of my mother careening off a cliff.

I whipped the Etch A Sketch at his head, the tablet careening off his chin.

He clattered ahead, moving at a jerky lope, the hard shells of the turtle packs careening off rock.

The trailing coil of its tail struck the blue's wing, sending the creature careening off to the side.

He went through the antechamber blind and panicking, careening off the walls and trying to arm his remaining pistol one-handed.

My own career path went careening off the rails onto a whole new set of tracks when this problem first started.

In a manmade labyrinth one kept moving, running, careening off walls, the contact itself a form of progress, if only blind.

The point is not to stop the driver from winning the race, but to keep her from careening off the track.

Ted sent his cigarette stub careening off into the shrubbery and grinned back at his uncle, a grin half merry, half defiant.

A piece of steaming metal flew at him out of the haze, careening off his right engine housing and barely missing his head.

Witt poked along, occasionally sniffing out an interesting scent trail and careening off blindly into the dust-covered weeds in the ditch alongside the road.

And a green streak of fire-oneof Gunnar's misses-wentcareening off into space until it shrank to a pinpoint of light and then vanished.

Liz watched through the rearview as Kyle's car started wobbling and then went careening off the highway into the shrubs and cacti of the desert.