How To Use Swerve In A Sentence

They swerved a little to the left, thereby exposing themselves to the fire of the British footguards and of a battery in excellent condition. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform. Somewhere East of Life
Regin downshifted, tires squealing as she swerved to dodge a roadkill-bound possum. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.

a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
He had been driving on a remote road and was said to have swerved to avoid hitting a sheep. Times, Sunday Times
The winger, a product of York's powerful junior section, took his chance with pace, swerve and strength but Ford could not make the conversion.
His right foot shot was delivered with pace, swerve and accuracy and although Stevie Woods put hand to it, the ball was knocked down only to the goal line where Greg Strong was able to clear.
A few cars swerved and squeezed by us, but finally someone had to stop and give us way.
Ray's comments swerved from the banal, to the solid and sober, like all good reporters.
He stepped on the gas and the rear end of his car first swerved gently to the right, and then to the left.
And if any of my officers swerve from the right and act otherwise than the Holy The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I suspect they might change their minds if they had to make a sudden swerve on the motorway at 70mph. Times, Sunday Times
From time-to-time, an unevenness in tone is evident, as the movie swerves between bawdy farce and melodrama.
The shot swerved away from Boruc but the keeper followed it with his dive and did well to palm it away. The Sun
Its main benefit is helping viewers to understand matches by showing placement, bounce, speed and swerve of the ball during play.
When he topped the rise, he swerved to avoid the tree and collided with the stone wall behind.
Sixty seconds later, he swerved away from the keeper's clawing gloves to stroke home his 21st goal of an astounding debut campaign.
It swerved slightly to the left, and then the screen stopped receiving, the telemetered instruments went dead and the robot's signal stopped. The Cosmic Computer
The vessel bucked and swerved as the upper atmosphere began to tug and grab at the smooth underside of the glider-car.
The shot swerved away from Boruc but the keeper followed it with his dive and did well to palm it away. The Sun
The speeding Corvette swerved to avoid intersection traffic and went into a spin.
He braked hard and swerved in a bid to avoid Conor, but the nearside front of the vehicle hit him, throwing him 15 metres through the air.
The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.
She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist.
With a quick flinging swerve, they cast themselves to the side of safety and the foot would come loose with the "cloop" of an opening bottle. Patsy
How about doing something about the bikie hoons that feel it's their right to do 150 on the Ring Road and swerve past cars?
In the next lane a huge cargo-hauler swerved to compensate, and as I pulled the control to slow I saw its operator, hands in the air, glaring at me through the perspex side-window. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Mexican news outlets quote police officials are saying the driver of a tractor trailer overcorrected after going off road and then swerved into oncoming traffic , hitting the bus.
The cheerful sailor crept forward and jibed over the foresail as Charley put the helm to starboard and we swerved to the right into the San Joaquin. Charley's Coup
The bus suddenly swerved and there was panic. The Sun
The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.
I run down Courtenay Place, sidestepping someone as I swerve at speed onto Taranaki Street, passing the doctor's and the florist and leaping across the road beside the bookstore.
He could have added to his tally soon afterwards, but his volley swerved past the upright. Times, Sunday Times
She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist.
The driver tried to swerve out of he way but it was for nought: they hit the other vehicle head on and died in a blaze of fire.
The camera swerves quickly from the murder to the reaction: Meenakshi retching in horror.
I swerved around and checked on my team mates at the helicopter pad, ready to take off as soon as I gave them the signal.
As if on cue, a motorist, seeing the grisly scene before him, swerves in order to crush this cannibal rat.
There is, for a start, the little matter of flight, which often contains an element of swerve in the last few feet.
The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
There was no pause for consideration about what he intended to do, hitting the ball crisply and with swerve from his right foot, the ball bending past the despairing dive of Arthur and tucking inside his right-hand post.
I saw only the aftermath, but witnesses said the driver swerved in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid striking a black Acura (in the foreground, above) and after sideswiping the car veered left across opposing lanes, flipping on its side.
Lucretius invoked the swerve (clinamen) not only to explain the creation of things but also to account for the freedom of the will. The First Quantum Cosmologist
Several drivers had to swerve to avoid him and the safety car had to be deployed to protect participants.
The Tennessean sons of a preacher man swerved past the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album to create an almighty slab of jaded gothic Southern rock.
He modelled the way he bends the ball on Beckham; the same spin and swerve from set pieces.
Guillory is obviously ready to understand the positing power of language as simply one more theme by means of which rhetorical reading generates and savors the pathos of non-human agency, but his swerve away from de Man's thematization of the performative may be taken as symptomatic of his desire to purge the theory of elements that resist being returned to cognition, and thence to self and the pedagogue's charisma, and thence to a social world. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
But when he hits the frightening climax, the camera swerves at dizzying angles, the sound desynchs, and the makeup and sets become highly expressionistic.
I was in fifth gear at the time and the swerve was slow and laboured. Times, Sunday Times
The Atlanta-based soft drink giant just debuted Swerve, a non-fat flavored milk-based beverage with added calcium and vitamins.
A quick swerve of his hips, a deft little hand pass and then a darting run to collect the return.
By calculating the radiuses that the car swerves accurately, the system improves its ability of swerving and the driving efficiency.
Nicholson never swerved from his aim of making pure and simple art.
The sudden swerves from genre to genre prove unsettling rather than exciting.
Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard.
But if all your data says there was no tree in the road, then the swerve is irrelevant, unless there is some reason to think your data wouldn’t pick up a tree in the road. Matthew Yglesias » Earnings Dropping, Energy Prices Rising
The car swerved and turned over. The Sun
Much of the book swerves from the Russian novelist to the Australian writer's own life to big ideas.
The wind was pushing the car from the left, and each time it dropped I swerved slightly in that direction from steering into the gale in an effort to keep myself on the road.
In addition, the swerve (clinamen, παρέγκλισις) would be uncaused and unpredictable, and this was the innovation that he thought would allow for free will. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.
The driver tried to change gear, then swerved.
The lower air density also reduces the Magnus Effect, which causes a spinning ball to swerve in flight and makes a ball with topspin dip downwards. Weatherwatch: high humidity and the Wimbledon tennis championships
Finally he returned to the official line from which he had swerved.
He jumped in fright, swerved and nearly crashed the cab.
But we should all be readier to think, and cook, and swerve our trolleys towards actual ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
The impact caused the car to swerve 180 degrees, and it completely missed the conveyor belt, instead barreling toward the very small office of Mr. Vanderjagt.
Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.
For at least five minutes, it dips and swerves and revels in front of us, disappearing out of sight for seconds and then zipping back into view from nowhere.
I had to swerve to avoid a cat.
An affection for the blunt speech of brute common sense often gives her poems the plain poise of wisdom literature, lanced with slides and swerves that leap from her alert musicality.
The car overtook as it approached a blind bend and the oncoming car on the other side of the road had to swerve on to the verge to avoid a collision.
Finally he returned to the official line from which he had swerved.
The Atlanta-based soft drink giant just debuted Swerve, a non-fat flavored milk-based beverage with added calcium and vitamins.
Meletic said she swerved and lost control of her vehicle.
Then Fran swerved neatly into a flagged parking space by an old, crumbling wall. READY?
The Ghoorka waved his hand impatiently, but I never guessed that he was telling me to keep further away; and as I wanted to get to Mrs. Urquhart's tent as quickly as possible, I did not swerve from the straight path which led to it. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
The car swerved and turned over. The Sun
a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve
This told me he'd managed to wangle an early swerve, even though it was only half past three in the afternoon! THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
Motorists whiz down the street and when the speed breaker suddenly looms ahead they swerve to avoid it.
Drivers on a busy dual carriageway yesterday had to swerve around a bath. The Sun
`Sometimes,' he boomed, `I think our friends the swervers live in some kind of never-never land. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
He swerved to swim downriver, wanting to explore the section that brushed - the escarp - ment. Robot Adept
With perfect precision he swerved in between cars and into the other lane.
Anyway, for him, it's great news, as he has managed to swerve a trial for possession of coke and heroin by pleading no contest and doing the twelve-step reshuffle.
The van swerved and crashed into two huge dustbins.
Or perhaps they do, for the beast does swerve aside, though this could be only chance.
Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.
Caught in my imagining, I miss the U-turn of the escort truck and am jolted by the roaring four-by-four off-roading as it swerves around our vehicle.
He had been driving on a remote road and was said to have swerved to avoid hitting a sheep. Times, Sunday Times
The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.
I swerved to the left, scared stiff at what had just happened.
From 20 yards, his left-foot shot gathered pace as it swerved and rose into the far corner of the net.
Now he went forth this day to his garden, to refresh himself amongst its trees and pluck the ripe fruits, when this young man slew him wrongously and swerved from the road of righteousness; wherefore we demand of thee the retribution of his crime and call upon thee to pass judgement upon him, according to the commandment of Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We were going to do it at a part of the road where he couldn't just swerve round us.
They have put traffic calming islands in the road, but lorries just swerve round them like juggernauts.
Or perhaps a gentle swerve to the right? The Sun
From that day to this, he has never swerved from the line of his integrity. The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Raymond was to inspire them with his beneficial will, and the mechanism of society, once systematised according to faultless rules, would never again swerve into disorder. I.7
The natural expectation, too, of Colonel Godby's move towards me cramped my manœuvres, for had I swerved from the line on which I expected his co-operation, his force would have been compromised and in the power of the enemy's weighty attack. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
He shaped for a diagonal into the box, before cutting through a low drive that swerved slightly away from the goalkeeper.
‘They're doing a good job of it,’ Adam said as Hannah swerved dangerously close to an oncoming car.
The driver tried to change gear, then swerved.
They would play chicken by driving head-on at each other until one of them lost their nerve and swerved out of the way.
Emergency swerves to avoid a crash can themselves lead to rollover accidents.
On me thou layest load of love the heaviest while I feel So feeble grown that under weight of chemisette I swerve. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats. Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster
Suddenly the horse swerved to one side, in affright as the electric fluid darted in a quivering, yellow line from the black clouds, lighting up the landscape, and showing the anxious rider that he was near the turnpike road which led to the main street. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.
He crashed his motorcycle into the side of a car that swerved in front of him as he was trying to pass on a road north of Hamburg.
But no one was calling for a penalty when Pryce came out of nowhere to collect the ball, swerve round the last man and dive over between the sticks.
Suddenly, the aircraft swerved to the right, so I countered with rudder, making the aircraft swerve left centerline.
How many times do you see an experienced horse swerve suddenly like that? FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
The car swerved and bounced, brakes screeching as we rounded another curve.
The foundations suffer them not to sink, the buttresses suffer them not to swerve, and the contignation and knitting suffers them not to cleave. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
A Vauxhall Corsa van, travelling on the anti-clockwise carriageway, lost control, possibly when a tyre blew, and the unladen HGV swerved to avoid a collision, clipping another lorry.
He was the head and front of all their malignity; yet, knowing all this, our chieftain swerved not from his responsibility. Our National Unity Perfected in the Martyrdom of our President
Because the car is out of control, the bus swerves to avoid it.
But Dolly swerved from the road and dashed down a grassy slope yellowed with innumerable mariposa lilies. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
I suspect they might change their minds if they had to make a sudden swerve on the motorway at 70mph. Times, Sunday Times
Or perhaps a gentle swerve to the right? The Sun
I had to swerve to avoid a cat.
Nicholson never swerved from his aim of making pure and simple art.
It is understood to have swerved to avoid the overtaking car. Times, Sunday Times
Being world class is not just holding glittering events but roads on which traffic can move at an average and safe speed of at least 40 kmph. without frequent swerves and stops to avoid potholes.
Two other cars collided with each other as they swerved to avoid the animal. Times, Sunday Times
I have, in isolated cases, had walkers deliberately walk in front of the bike and I have had to swerve to avoid them.
Lunge Turns are great for making hard swerves in a fast-moving game of hockey or in an emergency situation.
First, it must be the general tendency of atoms to move in straight lines given that the atoms here do not feature the clinamen, or swerve (contrary to the Epicurean tradition, though perhaps as Epicurus himself would say). Pierre Gassendi
More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard.
As she swerved to avoid them, the car hit other rocks thrown into the road which ruptured the car's oil tank.
Bullets started peppering the highway from above and I swerved to avoid them.
Wanderers took the lead in curious fashion when wingman Holden seemed to cross, but to the astonishment of the players and crowd the ball swerved in flight and hit the back of the net.
On his way back home a lorry swerved into his car and he was killed instantly. Times, Sunday Times
The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.
It is understood to have swerved to avoid the overtaking car. Times, Sunday Times
At the bottom of the hill, as the road swerved away to the right, the trailer and our precious oil tank decided to go straight on, the towbar crashing into the kerbstone, sending the whole works spinning into the undergrowth.
She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.
A truck swerved and clipped a parked car.
The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese.
Rounding a bend past a corkwood copse, I had to swerve to avoid an extinct Holden smack in the middle of the track. Wildwood
DRIVERS on a busy dual carriageway yesterday had to swerve around a bath. The Sun
He first came across a wild boar 14 years ago, when his wife had to swerve round one in the road.
Erica swerved the car round a corner before stopping at the side of a flyover.
The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
Millions of fiery colours swerved before her eyes enveloping her.
Pelops was guiding, as he shook the reins, and with him was Hippodameia at his side, and in pursuit Myrtilus urged his steeds, and with him Oenomaus had grasped his couched spear, but fell as the axle swerved and broke in the nave, while he was eager to pierce the back of Pelops. The Argonautica
The seam acts as a rudder and the air turbulence around the sphere can cause it to swerve alarmingly. The Sun
Well, his choice of music wasn't too bad to start with (Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Mazzy Star, Spiritualized) but I missed all those and had the misfortune to tune into Limp Bizkit (gak), Swervedriver (yawn), Christina Aguilera (what the ?)
Sentences swerve between different constructions, words are sometimes misapplied, set descriptions incoherent. Times, Sunday Times
He swerved past both and scored with a flashing low drive. Times, Sunday Times
She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.
Stanley died Saturday after a car he was driving swerved off a highway and hit trees down an embanked near Mareeba in Queensland, Australia, The Associated Press reports. Owsley "Bear" Stanley, '60s Counterculture Icon and LSD Producer, Dies at 76
My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear. Fiancée
Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard.
A bulkily suited spaceman and spacewoman veer, swoop, and swerve in woozy slo-mo as they go about their business tethered to the station, like foetuses still attached to their umbilical cords.
The moon was almost full, so there was plenty of light to steer by, although a coal-black cat nearly crossed my path, and I had a nasty swerve trying to avoid it. The Dark Side of Innocence
Now some who set up for teachers of the law swerved from the very end of the commandment: they set up for disputers, but their disputes proved vain jangling; they set up for teachers, but they pretended to teach others what they themselves did not understand. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
His 22-year-old brother was thrown in front of an oncoming car, which narrowly missed him after the driver swerved.
The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.
With this decision, the film swerves into sentimentalist airspace.
He said he twice swerved towards the pavement because he had a slow puncture, not because he was trying to flatten me. Times, Sunday Times
Doubtless her soul was brimming over with shamelessness, since she swerved so far from shamefastness, as without a blush to seek solace for her wrong in her daughter's infamy. The Danish History, Books I-IX
Mexican news outlets quote police officials are saying the driver of a tractor trailer overcorrected after going off road and then swerved into oncoming traffic , hitting the bus.
An eighteen-wheeler had been driving on the wrong side of a curvy road, and my dad swerved around it to get out of the way.
Though Poggio was responsible for many priceless finds—the works of Vitruvius and Quintilian, the letters of Cicero—it was thanks to his discovery in 1417 of the sole surviving manuscript of the Roman poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" that, in Mr. Greenblatt's phrase, "the world swerved in a new direction. How the Secular World Began
Audacious loops, bends and swerves are undertaken at astonishing speed and with awesome precision.
He jumped in fright, swerved and nearly crashed the cab.
He swooped and swerved, dived and dodged, and down below, everyone ran around like ants, evading the shells that lost energy and feel like meteors.
Cars swerved this way and that to avoid them as they weaved in and around the traffic.
I managed to swerve and avoid hitting them but I grazed the bicycle and we all fell.
He observed as she swerved right, toward the center of the pack, then he followed with more caution and less speed. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
And, very definitely, I love to let my eyes swerve over those endless rows of covers stacked upon shelves.
The soldiery perceiving him, paused in their onset; he did not swerve from the bullets that passed near him, but rode immediately between the opposing lines. II.9
When persons, especially ministers, swerve from the great law of charity -- the end of the commandment, they will turn aside to vain jangling; when a man misses his end and scope, it is no wonder that every step he takes is out of the way. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Mitch swerved the car down an off-ramp, and screeched the tires onto a road.
He could have added to his tally soon afterwards, but his volley swerved past the upright. Times, Sunday Times
Police tried to use a "stinger" device, a nailed mat, to stop the vehicle but he swerved to avoid it and sped off at 90 mph.
A survey of 837 drivers who use their cell phones behind the wheel found that almost half swerved or drifted into another lane, 23 percent had tailgated, 21 percent cut someone off, and 18 percent nearly hit another vehicle.
I remember Steve Davis explaining how Higgins used body action to put swerve on a ball.
It swerved, but gave the first coach a glancing blow and ended up in the field.
So, my husband swerved to miss the vehicle in front.
He sidesteps, swerves and pauses after difficult questions to consider his answers.
She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.
Fake It So Real" captures a week in the life of this rough-and-tumble fraternity of small-town head crushers, allowing generous elbow room for sometimes ridiculous, sometimes heart-tugging swerves of eccentricity as individual struggles are subsumed by the communal glory of the big match. Repertory Film: No-Holds-Barred Cinema
Finally he returned to the official line from which he had swerved.
She knows we won't suddenly swerve in a new direction just because fashion says we should. Times, Sunday Times
He has accuracy and the ability to make the ball dip and swerve or whatever is needed.
On Saturday, 13 stray cattle were impounded near Berlin after a motorist swerved to avoid them and rolled his vehicle.
He observed as she swerved right, toward the center of the pack, then he followed with more caution and less speed. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Her car swerved off the road into a 6ft high brick wall.
It's got bend and swerve, but - as it nears the goal - it's palmed away by the Chelsea keeper.
Stanley Matthews had his "bodyswerve", of course, a mysterious action that was always talked of in awestruck tones but never truly explained – the football equivalent of transubstantiation. Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks
I swerved to avoid the other car and only just missed a tree.
He may have been killed when the driver swerved to avoid her. The Sun

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