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Definition of Careered
1. career [v] - See also: career
Lexicographical Neighbors of Careered
Literary usage of Careered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theodoric the Goth: The Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin (1891)
"Seven times they careered round and round the long spina, of course with eager
struggles to get the inside turn, and perhaps with a not infrequent fall when ..."
2. England at War: The Story of the Great Campaigns of the British Army by William Henry Davenport Adams (1886)
"... and riding swiftly down the slope, careered across the blood-red field.
The whole French attack wavered; the battle-tide hung, as it were, suspended. ..."
3. Eighty Years' Reminiscences by John Anstruther-Thomson (1904)
"We careered wildly about and were told the hounds had just trotted off ten minutes
ago ... Thus we careered until well on in the afternoon, when weary, wet, ..."
4. Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and the Men of Old edited by Francis Storr (1911)
"Wildly they careered and brought the heat of midday into far regions of the ...
Lost in clouds of whirling smoke and ashes, the steeds careered madly to and ..."
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