How To Use Veer In A Sentence

The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars. Captured by Moonlight
During changeable weather, the temperature can veer from sub-Mediterranean to Siberian.
Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
On one occasion we had a hot land-wind from the South-East that veered round as the day advanced to Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1

One Friday afternoon, en route to the medieval rectory that served as the family's country home, Javier suddenly veered sharply right upon hearing I'd never had horchata de chufa , a sweet milk made from tiger nuts. A Fish Tale
Any questions that veer away from the topic that is uppermost in her mind are swiftly redirected. Times, Sunday Times
If your summers veer towards the torrid, a soft coat low e with a lower SHGC may be a more sensible strategy.
She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes. The Sun
The conversation veered towards language and accents.
Over a large gin and tonic, he veers between amused bafflement at all the fuss and genuine hurt that he has been cast as a monster. Times, Sunday Times
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.
Not an ideal candidate, Brady's personal views veer to the right of our tastes and the well-being of the state, but we take him at his word that he won't push a social agenda as governor and we call on him to govern from the middle. Bill Brady Is Conservative, But Says He Won't Push Social Agenda
They certainly veered in different directions. Times, Sunday Times
By then, howeveer, in many places the grass had already taken root.
The company rides towards the wood, then veers south, parallel to the edge of the trees.
But this time he has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangster rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing.
Chef Gutenbrunner's goulash tasted a little tough, and some of his appetizers (the smoked-trout-and-eel salad, for example) veered off, as Mr. Austria put it, ‘into nouvelle froufrou land.’
A: ALCOHOLIC MANICUREThe beauty of a manicurist getting you pissed is that you're more likely to go a bit "wacky" with the colours, and veer into the realms of tangerines and taupes. The beauty bible
Just like firecrackers streaming through the air... here and there... the following story veers offtrack I was supposed to reveal the fashion victim of our latest story. French Destinations
The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
The plane veered off the runway and careered through the perimeter fence.
The event was a humdinger of a house-warming, with sublime moments and a mood that veered between a classical music concert and a beery knees-up at a wedding.
An eyewitness said the jet veered sideways off the right side of the runway and erupted into flames as it hit a runway fence.
As we arrived at the river, the cold easterly gale had veered to a light westerly breeze with a touch of warmth in it, perfect for river trouting.
The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
Government hospitals have a dental surgeon on duty day and night just like a regular duty doctor, Dr. Veerabahu says.
Florent Malouda scored the winner on Saturday but he is as happy veering infield as dumbfounding markers on the outside. Chelsea manager shrugs off heckles and looks to rectify familiar faults
For a brief few seconds he led the Grand National as Clan Royal veered off a straight line, the whipless Cooper slapping his horse as he tried to cajole him back onto a straight line.
They certainly veered in different directions. Times, Sunday Times
A motorist died when his car struck a wild boar on an unlit motorway, veered across the road and was hit by a lorry. Times, Sunday Times
Khalid Tanveer/Associated Press Members of Pakistan's antiterrorist squad patrolled a market where people were shopping for the Eid Tuesday. Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr
The glendoveer now craved Seeva for vengeance, but the god sent him to Yamen (_i. e. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Cerruti has veered away from innocuous and terribly predictable suits; away from trousers, jacket, belt and shoes in perfect harmony.
Wal-Mart said it developed the program in conjunction with several nongovernmental organizations and Melanne Verveer, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women's issues. Wal-Mart Offers Plan to Empower Women
Their spacey sound veers between warm vintage pop and cold electronic music.
At this stage it looks like we'll just get gale force winds tonight (unless it veers to the south), but nothing too destructive.
A solid sophomore entry for a band born out of intensity, Sparta have made an iffy decision in veering off into a lighter direction.
The plane was going straight towards the mountain, but veered away at the last minute.
John McCain embarked on a health care tour Monday, but veered off course seizing on the latest remarks by Rev. Wright. CNN=Politics Daily
Pedestrians in Tooting had a lucky escape after a car veered off the road and crashed into a shop, narrowly missing them.
A 5-year-old child was critically injured Wednesday evening when a car the child was in veered off Route 7 and crashed in Fairfax County, police said. Child, 5, critically injured in Fairfax crash
This is much too good a book to veer into "revenge fic", a sub-species of fan fiction in which writers inflict suffering on characters that they dislike.
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
It's tempting to veer into overkill territory with defined lashes and a sweep of rosy blusher on the cheeks. Times, Sunday Times
Hedges effectively treads the tightrope between comedy and drama without veering too far in either direction.
Though an unusual one, veering between pioneer and plush. Times, Sunday Times
As such, the choreography veers erratically between truly striking theatrical imagery and a surprisingly awkward inarticulation. Times, Sunday Times
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
The driver had been trying to exit the A4 motorway near Verona when the vehicle veered off the road and slammed into a bridge support. Times, Sunday Times
The other good news is that the northerly monsoons have arrived in the Gulf, blowing steadily from north-west veering north-east.
It was the same way she used to fill in coloring books: quickly, messily, veering out of the lines.
The towrope snapped, and the towed car veered across the road before crashing into the side of the bus.
A silver-tongued charmer with celluloid in his veins, he veers between boy-wonder genius and self-promoting charlatan.
Erin Joynt, 33, was sunbathing when a beach patrol pickup truck veered out of the designated vehicle lane and struck her in the head and back while making a U-turn. Mom Survives Horrific Beach Accident
Attached to the pumps, multiple tubes on the floor next to the wall led into the space, where they intermittently veered off to form seven roundish tangles.
A writer in the "Atlantic" [1] gravely tells us the wood thrush is sometimes called the hermit, and then, after describing the song of the hermit with great beauty and correctness, coolly ascribes it to the veery! In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
The driver lost control and veered to the nearside.
Veerle Linseele is a Ph.D. student in archaeozoology at the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Staff Profiles
It took off into the bright summer day and veered erratically around the trees and flowers.
It veers from moody French film music to something much darker when he tackles his true subject, prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Some immigrants veer off the traditional career path and head out in new directions, into places they might never have dreamed of when they were growing up in India.
Problems begin with incentives to bring in new agents, which can veer towards the pyramid structure if these incentives are not designed carefully. Times, Sunday Times
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.
It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view.
A committed Catholic, Gibson's choice of screen roles has always veered towards suffering, sacrifice and martyrdom.
The word swung back and forth in my thoughts as I veered off to follow the least-used trails, sometimes just going through the woods. Zombies vs. Unicorns
With his singular New Orleans-indebted legato style silenced, Little Feat somehow soldiered on, veering into jazzier terrain behind guitarist Paul Barrére and keyboardist Billy Payne. Troubadours, Technicians and Dixie Chickens
He said something to the helmsman, and the boat veered towards a narrow wharf where a couple of launches were moored. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Today's stars veer between garage and house, grime and jungle. The Sun
Finding Neverland, which explores the events that inspired J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, briefly skirts that line before veering off into terribly cornball territory.
The atmosphere veers from poetic to cartoony to nonthrilling thriller. Times, Sunday Times
She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
The technique, known as galvanic vestibular stimulation, unbalances a person so that they automatically veer left or right in an attempt to rebalance themselves.
VanDerveer has documented the whole experience, taping a personal journal and writing down a workout log.
Cahill's plane, still corkscrewing, veers towards the laser on the Kratch battleship, which is preparing to fire again.
Indeed Veeru's Napier thrust looked just the foil to Rahul's rapier thrust.
The soi-disant "antifascist" Western elites have veered so far into a delusional dreamscape that they themselves have become enablers of open Socialist fascism acting as a pathfinder for its Islamic kin. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
Simon Upton/Interior Archive Veere Grenney's apartment in London This room is fondly referred to as "the bedsitter" by its owner, Veere Grenney, the New Zealand-born, London-based designer known for his elegant, pared-down traditional interiors. The All-In-One Room
The conversation veered towards language and accents.
The Treatise veers between the insecure pompousness and pompous insecurity of a man who dons bling on dirty fingers and then sets out to create the urtext of social seemliness. Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: HonorÃ© de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living
Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? The Case for God by Karen Armstrong: Book summary
While the controlling Kwok family are known as astute investors, veering so clearly away from a core business is usually a red flag. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
No. Strays isn't mentalist enough to veer off in that kind of direction, it's all too tight.
To continue down the road to recovery or veer down the road to ruin. The Sun
All three fleshed out a work that veers dangerously toward cartoonishness at times with solid and thoughtful performances. Do You Like American Music?
Smoke poured from the undercarriage when a wheel buckled and the the aircraft veered on to grass before halting. The Sun
This conversation was veering off the original topic, and onto the one Lauren was afraid it would come to.
The day veered between optimism and pessimism. Times, Sunday Times
The wind was slowly veering toward the east, as the Grimsby man had predicted, with no sign of any storm as yet, but rather a prospect of winterly weather, and a breeze to bring the woodcocks in. Mary Anerley
When he saw the accident, he pulled to the side but the truck veered across and struck the front of the van.
Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
There were Krishnadeva Rayas, complete with jewelled turbans, even a Veerappan look-alike, complete with a cartridge belt.
For those who veer off schedule, the app has an option to recalculate, taking the deviation into account. Times, Sunday Times
We veer away towards the subway, through the bloated families and the preening mermaids and mermen.
And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes. The Sun
Some of it has veered into the recruitment area and we also have a more litigious culture. Times, Sunday Times
Told in folksy language and down-home idioms that only occasionally veer into corn pone, this enjoyable story evokes a world once hidden in plain sight, and the inevitability of its end. BookBrowse Previews April Books
Still, even when it veers into the realm of Spinach TV — so good-for-you that it feels more dutiful than good — OWN is by and large a refreshing respite from the wearying, soul-numbing cable norm, which often exploits and celebrates our worst behaviors. Matt's TV Week in Review
It would weave towards us then veer away crazily.
If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow.
And that same electric veering-out for me reading the sunflower poem at age 18.
Vocally they veer between manic and mannered, at times verging on hysterical operatics, while their rigid riffs resemble uncoordinated robots trying to play disco.
While he was studying in Paris, his thinking suddenly veered off in a new direction.
Websites that put in many more than that are veering towards spamming. Times, Sunday Times
Gardaí and fire service personnel at the scene said the Opel appeared to have veered accidentally to its incorrect side of the road at a blind bend where the collision occurred.
It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner.
The play veers from loopy comedy to serious moralizing.
Problems begin with incentives to bring in new agents, which can veer towards the pyramid structure if these incentives are not designed carefully. Times, Sunday Times
They followed the road for a couple of hours, then, after they had gone about a dozen miles, they veered off of it and into the woods for another four or five miles.
He adduces several wartime and postwar writers who veer away from addressing the German civilians' dreadful suffering.
Though an unusual one, veering between pioneer and plush. Times, Sunday Times
If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow.
He said something to the helmsman, and the boat veered towards a narrow wharf where a couple of launches were moored. THE LAST TEMPTATION
His emotions veered between fear and anger.
The car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.
They were unaware that the jet had suddenly and inexplicably veered off course.
As we arrived at the river, the cold easterly gale had veered to a light westerly breeze with a touch of warmth in it, perfect for river trouting.
The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
I'd veer towards something porky, personally. Times, Sunday Times
In a normal society something like Hooke's Law would operate on them as they veered out of the groove of correct behaviour.
He veered between calm acceptance and hysterical accusations.
It is still not clear why the missile veered off course.
I never knew the precise nature of our danger beyond this, that the vessel had been thrown on her beam-ends in a squall, and that, the wind immediately veering round, the fury of the waves had been spent upon her. The Englishwoman in America
And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes. The Sun
At one point Kassir veers off what one might expect from a dispassionate history by describing the city as having a 'unique and incomparably seductive quality'. James Denselow: From Beirut With Love
Suddenly something went wrong with her steering, and she veered sharply into the path of one of the convoy's escort trawlers.
The second half veered into zarzuela and operetta. Times, Sunday Times
A tiered skirt would veer the look into fancy-dress territory, so play the proportions right with a sober pencil skirt. Times, Sunday Times
Veerappan, after being used to living in the jungle, couldn't recondition himself to the idea of migrating to concretized Chennai.
I veer into the middle lane again, car swerving wildly, and draw a second deep breath.
The only rhythm to time is the series of errors that break out like loosened objects and brush by the control panel, hitting switches that suddenly veer the ship into ever darker regions.
At this year's Milan fair, Mr. Smeets and Ms. Tynagel have veered into the industrial designer's lane, and are launching several usable pieces in conjunction with some of Europe's leading design labels, including Moooi, the Dutch furniture company, and Venini, the Murano glassworks. Out of the Gallery and Into the Home
Around the 30 minute mark on the nose, we veer off into ibogaine as addiction cure.
Athletics has veered dangerously close to farce. Times, Sunday Times
At Bombay, winds below 850 mb veered from northeast to southwest on the 3 rd.
The wood and hermit thrushes and their cousin the veery have taken a severe hit from the cowbirds, so that they are on the brink of becoming endangered species.
John McCain is visibly uncomfortable talking about social issues, and when pressed on them, tends to veer between conservatism-in-a-can boilerplate (“marriage is a unique institution in our society and we have to protect it”) and a kind of jokey admission that he is giving you talking points. McCain’s Anti-Social Conservatism - Swampland - TIME.com
His performance veers between extreme bombast and lazy naturalism - a shaky line few actors could get away with, but he pulls it off brilliantly.
The driver had been trying to exit the A4 motorway near Verona when the vehicle veered off the road and slammed into a bridge support. Times, Sunday Times
Today's stars veer between garage and house, grime and jungle. The Sun
An inquest heard his glasses had probably misted up, causing him to veer into a tree stump.
The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
At the first traffic light you will veer to the right onto a two-way access road (Lara) that parallels Coloso. Help ! In Central Mexico without any visa or car permit.
Says a source, â€œSalman was the first to extend the olive branch by calling Karan after watching the promos of My Name Is Khan and SRK returned it by praising Veer. The Times of India
It's a rock edge that easily veers over to double-time punk or laid-back ska.
Thus these spent people sat and talked for a long while, the talk veering anywhither just as chance directed. The Certain Hour
She veers between charmingly flirtatious and excessively winsome, the latter especially when preparing for her deathbed scene. Times, Sunday Times
Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire.
His language veers between a time-served nationalist and a graduate of the Harvard Business School, an odd hybrid of Celtic comfort and business assurance.
The bus veered onto the wrong side of the road.
Sheldrakes are today's mergansers, while the Wilson thrush, known today as the veery is only a migrant on the Cape but a resident of New England's woods.
A tanker driver died when his lorry veered off the motorway.
In terms of quality, its accuracy veers from the occasionally passable to the frequently risible, while its all-important readability is even worse - and deteriorating.
My father identifies this as a nest of veeries, a kind of thrush. Globe and Mail
The self-released, self-financed record veered into noisy experimentalism, with the musician pushing country's boundaries and receiving critical acclaim in the process.
What does, ironically, veer more towards sensationalism, are the attempts by opponents of climate action to lambast such discussions as opportunistic, to try to shut down the dialogue.
He hit a slicer this year that veered over the fairway and nearly donged an old duckie two fairways away.
The convolutions in the plotlines veer back and forth between intriguing and confusing.
On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds. Walden
Suddenly, the helicopter veered from its course and started climbing.
In terms of my favorite songs of theirs, I immediately veer towards their loungey stuff.
His feature-length art films, lavishly shot and propped and edited, veer from images of a classic-car demolition derby in the Chrysler Building, to a gorgeous amputee slicing potatoes with her knife-edged prostheses, to melted Vaseline pouring down a chute at the Guggenheim Museum. Movies: Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle' comes to E Street Cinema
The plot, veering between slavish adherence and badly conceived alterations, has become incomprehensible, driven by coincidence of the implausible rather than that of the existential variety.
Bovell penned the screenplay here as well, and though some of the dialogue veers on hokiness, for the most part he deserves praise for such an intricate web of characters.
The negative reaction began to gather when Mr. Reed was named "the most overrated lyricist of all time" by the music website Flavorwire, and almost simultaneously a Village Voice online critic who heard a "Lulu" preview cited its "grinding atonality that veers on amusicality" and "relentless misogyny. A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched (and occasionally very funny) attempts to exorcise the ghost.
He veered to his right, not wanting to betray his presence with dust from the dry mud of the lane.
It was deafeningly loud; he felt hot air burn his face; the car veered across the road.
These will absorb an awful lot of chafe, and if they do chafe though, veer just a little more line and a new piece of hose will be in the chock to take the chafe.
It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner.
Although veering dangerously towards exaggeration, one has to admit: the man may have had a point.
The tone, which veers from slapstick comedy to mawkish melodrama, is as volatile as nitroglycerine.
This latest proposal appears to veer in the direction of Democratic ideals.
At sunset, the wind freshened and veered to the north.
Rounding the notorious San Juan section, where the rough surface was still wet from a nearby waterfall, he saw fresh tyre tracks that veered abruptly off the unprotected edge.
As we were rowed back to the Assi Ghat, the boat veered a little towards the shores where the funeral pyres were burning.
Soon their way veered from the shoreline, and they walked under large canopies of beech trees that dropped nutshells at their feet.
The sound veers between jazz and countrified blues.
Germany is also veering in that direction. Times, Sunday Times
He is unlikely to veer from his boss's strongly held views.
He is unlikely to veer from his boss's strongly held views.
It veers slightly to one side, so I end up with my left shoulder aching after a while of constantly having to correct it.
The critical were there, representing various shades of belief and prejudice, from the quiet repressionist, who, disdaining emotion, views with dispassionate coldness the great tenets of the faith, to the irrepressible enthusiast whose spiritual understanding is often lost beneath a foam of feeling; from the instructed brother who reads his title clear with logical accuracy in the Scriptures and glories in his standing with belieing indifference to his state, to the anxious soul whose hope of heaven veers with every changing wind of fitful emotion. The First Soprano
In our silence we became invisible to the approaching group and they veered course and took a heading that led them directly to Ben and Kim.
On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds. Walden
And that veered into the territory of my own life. Times, Sunday Times
When questioning veers anywhere near these subjects he makes it clear he's fed up of talking about it.
The album, Eye to the Telescope, is a beguiling record, veering from pumped-up indie to stripped-down acoustic ballads.
Sure, Lov and O'Halloran's lyrics veer dangerously close to sophomoric, overblown, teen poetry, but really, what lyrics don't?
Apparently the car veered across the center line at a high rate of speed and broke through the guard rail before falling the 27 feet into the Susquehanna River.
But instead of a smooth descent of the wheels, there was a juddering sound and the plane veered to the right. Times, Sunday Times
It is impossible, at times, to avoid veering towards the gory detail. The Times Literary Supplement
Sheldrakes are today's mergansers, while the Wilson thrush, known today as the veery, is only a migrant on the Cape but a resident of New England's woods.
The special 8-seater amphibious plane was caught in a crosswind as it landed just after 3 p.m. and veered off the runway causing severe damage to the undercarriage.
The role of Quentin, garrulously veering from self-pity to self-justification, is a difficult one.

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