How To Use Veering In A Sentence

  • The researchers noted that the helicopters stayed impressively true to the calculated flight paths, never veering more than 12-inches off course.
  • One of the beauties of Sintra, though, is that you can escape the crowds, literally within a minute, by veering off on one of the bowered paths leading up the Serra.
  • And the government's reaction, veering in panic-stricken indecision from one wildly contradictory solution to another, is also traditional.
  • This climbs steadily before veering E, traverses back below a steep section and turns right again to cross the E ridge of the hill.
  • That the problems of thinking about the other in romantic love can come to seem ethical -- veering around questions of projection, violation, respect -- as well as epistemological, is the burden of this essay; and my argument is that the Romantic (capital R) and the romantic (little r) are conjoined in the ethics of thinking. Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love
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  • Art opines, "Prima veering into 'Twist & Shout' at the end of 'Civilization' is a mindblower! Michael Sigman: 'Civilization' and its Disc Contents
  • Such encounters were relatively common in the harum-scarum chaos of an early solar system that teemed with veering planets and asteroids. The Loneliest Planet
  • If a novel with a pink popsicle on the cover sounds to you like literature veering into the tedious, high-pitched and bloggy, fear not.
  • His mood could change in an instant and he would keep veering off the topic of conversation, forgetting what they had been talking about.
  • Moments before crashing, the jet was seen veering sharply to the right.
  • It was a little campier than I expected, with Keaton veering toward Beetlejuice territory but it was cute and I now want to start up a web site called CheapAssTravel. com, referenced by Keaton in the closing moments. Aspirations : Bev Vincent
  • The weather changes every five minutes, veering from sunshine to blizzards and back.
  • His vocal work was enormously impressive, veering worryingly towards perfection, something which improvisation never sought, expected or needed.
  • We didn't overbalance, but we did end up veering around a bit to stay upright.
  • I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. Nine Princes In Amber
  • If a vessel veers off the channel to port the light becomes red and veering to starboard shows a green light.
  • Veering between pastoral and yellow journalism, the novel has a crude energy, and Dickstein praises it for showing that poverty was a psychological trap as well as an economic one.
  • Like her father, Ms. Cheney speaks in understated, almost academic cadences, head veering down into her notes. Another Cheney
  • Witnesses described a loud bang, the pilot ejecting then the plane veering upwards into the sky, then crashing straight down.
  • It must be kind of a relief to get this sort of no-nonsense attitude toward these issues after all the tacking and veering that we're likely to have experienced in earlier writers.
  • The other good news is that the northerly monsoons have arrived in the Gulf, blowing steadily from north-west veering north-east.
  • Alone among the novels, it escapes the wild veerings of her mind into strange, crankish byways. Catacomb Efreet
  • We traveled eight days along the main road before veering away from our fellow travelers onto a smaller path heading north towards the Silver Crossings.
  • He watched several gulls veering near and saw a hundred other, gulls positioned on a slope, all facing the same way, motionless, regardful, joined in consciousness, in beautiful empty birdness, waiting for the signal to fly. Underworld
  • Moments before crashing, the jet was seen veering sharply to the right.
  • Germany is also veering in that direction. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the Middle Ages the tail vane of windmills, continuously steering the sails into the veering wind, are well-known early examples of guidance by feedback.
  • While his highs and lows - veering between internal self-aggrandisement and lack of self-esteem - ring true, he is the novel's least engaging and convincing character.
  • Alfred Hyslop, as Mellinger, eye-pops and mugs for the camera, veering dangerously close to Carry On territory, while Paul Ravich, the actor playing Booth, Mellinger’s main underling, comes to resemble the spaced-out astro-hippies in John Carpenter’s Dark Star. Ballardian » Simon Brook's Minus One
  • My thoughts were dismissed as I lurched forward, the taxi veering to the side of the avenue and halting quickly.
  • What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
  • 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
  • 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
  • A solid sophomore entry for a band born out of intensity, Sparta have made an iffy decision in veering off into a lighter direction.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • This conversation was veering off the original topic, and onto the one Lauren was afraid it would come to.
  • 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
  • And that same electric veering-out for me reading the sunflower poem at age 18.
  • Websites that put in many more than that are veering towards spamming. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though an unusual one, veering between pioneer and plush. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars. Captured by Moonlight
  • Thus these spent people sat and talked for a long while, the talk veering anywhither just as chance directed. The Certain Hour
  • Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire.
  • 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.
  • Although veering dangerously towards exaggeration, one has to admit: the man may have had a point.
  • Germany is also veering in that direction. Times, Sunday Times
  • The album, Eye to the Telescope, is a beguiling record, veering from pumped-up indie to stripped-down acoustic ballads.
  • It is impossible, at times, to avoid veering towards the gory detail. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The role of Quentin, garrulously veering from self-pity to self-justification, is a difficult one.
  • Always veering towards the conservative and traditional, they dislike novelties, experimentation or quirky fads.
  • For marvellous was the ease and beauty with which these ships went through their nautical movements; now as in chase of each other, now approaching as in conflict, veering off, darting aside, threading as it were a harmonious maze, gliding in and out, here, there, with the undulous celerity of the serpent. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
  • Elsewhere in the cast, Justin Theroux plays Drew Barrymore's old boyfriend: an Irish gangster with an accent veering wildly from Glasgow to Dublin via Los Angeles.
  • There are passages where the narrative flounders, information is disordered and the author loses focus, veering from rich narrative to dry anthropology.
  • Eyes everywhere watched me, conversations hesitating, veering off in new directions as Mai and I entered.
  • Facedown in the water, a jolt of fear shot through me the first time I came face-to-face with a chinook, which aimed straight at me before veering sharply away.

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