Pitching dangerously to one side.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
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Examples for "reel "
Examples for "reel "
1 Then the illusion is lost in the next turn of the reel .
2 Business Angling for an answer: When will Fed reel in its stimulus?
3 Come every day and reel it in, a foot at a time.
4 We can reel him in if he begins to ask uncomfortable questions.
5 The highlights reel would be far longer than that of the lowlights.
1 But several councillors said the government was leaving Aucklanders in the lurch .
2 Nepal, Bangladesh and the Maldives lurch from one political crisis to another.
3 That Ellis's company had left farmers in the lurch was well known.
4 Every few minutes Slidell would lurch to his feet and disappear outside.
5 With a sudden lurch forward the Sergeant plunged headlong in the snow.
1 I ran forward along the keel gangway, searching for the control room.
2 Everything in naval architecture springs from and is related to the keel .
3 Thereafter the king proceeded west up to the keel - ridge of the country.
4 For all I knew, I was going to keel over any second.
5 These masts, passing through the decks, are fixed firmly in the keel .
1 Suddenly, in the flat, the Prince seemed to stagger in his saddle.
2 The horse gave a convulsive stagger and fell dead in the shafts.
3 Choking and gasping, he followed her lead and managed to stagger upright.
4 The concussion of the explosion made the ship stagger for a moment.
5 Even with great care the best he could do was a stagger .
1 It also earned a swag of Tuis at home in New Zealand.
2 You could simply say no - and refuse to accept the swag .
3 One who carried no swag halted at the rails and came in.
4 Judges will receive the best seats and some swag from Climbing Magazine.
5 And former England international Stan Collymoore was also impressed by their swag .
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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