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• The car swerved off a road, hit a wall, and fireballed as the petrol tank exploded.From the entry fireball
• The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.From the entry miss
• The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.From the entry lick
• I had a close shave with somebody who pulled out in front of me on the road, but I swerved and managed not to hit him.From the entry close shave
• The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.1994, Leftare P. Delis, The Inside Passage, page 166. From the entry stew
• He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent.1919, F. St. Mars, The Way of the Wild. From the entry marram
• He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry unlock
• Trains can’t swerve to avoid something in their way or stop on a dime like a rubber-tired vehicle.”2019 April 25, Morgan Rousseau, “SEPTA to travelers: ‘Respect the train’”, in Metro, page 4. From the entry tired
• Mom swerves the church's turd-brown minivan into an open space.2015 March 10, Diane C. Mullen, Tagged, Charlesbridge Publishing, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry way back
• He fishtailed the car; it swerved and reversed direction, heading straight for the three jocks who were chasing them on foot.2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution. From the entry fishtail
• The back wheel starts hunting and swerving.2013, Deon Meyer, Dirt Busters: A Guide to Adventure Motorbiking, Cape Town: Tafelberg, →ISBN. From the entry middelmannetjie
• I hit the flashers, but intuited that to brake might cause the car to wobble or swerve into the jersey wall.2011, Diane Light, This Way Out: The Power to Change, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry jersey wall
• On ungritted roads motorists were swerving to avoid each other.2004, Jonathan James Long, Anne Whitehead, W G Sebald: A Critical Companion. From the entry ungritted
• His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos. From the entry bowlder
• When Vashti swerved away from the sunbeams with a cry, she behaved barbarically—she put out her hand to steady her.1909, E.M. Forster, “I”, in The Machine Stops. From the entry barbarically
• He was on the ball in a flash, swerving to the left of City’s goalkeeper, Ederson, before shaping his body for a tricky angled finish.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry island
• And how there was clearly no escape, no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.2014, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, →ISBN. From the entry clean-handed
• He swerved and snatched a mouthful.1985, Keith Nicholson, Lyn Wendon, Munching Mike’s Mistake (The Letterland Storybooks), Twickenham: Hamlyn/Templar, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry munchy
• Kane picked up the ball 25 yards out with 18 minutes left before proving he is ever the opportunist by flashing a dipping swerving drive beyond the deceived Szczesny.2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport. From the entry ever
• These smaller than requisite pipes run down the road and swerve to the left and open out to the arroyo (an open drainage pit or jaw hole).2017 April 12, “Surviving a Jawhole disaster in La Yacata”, in Surviving Mexico, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2022. From the entry jawhole
• The Croatian controls on his chest before hitting a left-footed volley which swerves and moves in the air but ultimately drifts wide of the far post.2011 October 30, Evan Fanning, “Tottenham Hotspur v QPR - as it happened”, in The Guardian. From the entry swazz
• The bulker began to swerve from side to side, as sharply as it could, creating large waves behind it, sending a churning wake towards the pirate boats.2010, Duncan Falconer, Pirate. From the entry bulker
• The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller.2003, Ruskin Bond, Rusty: The Boy from the Hills, Puffin Book, published 2003, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry fruitseller
• The crash happened at 10am when the bus, apparently swerving to avoid a cyclist, plunged down a cliff in Pingshan village, Long'an county, about 70km west of Nanning.2002 February 15, “Mainland to complete crash probe in three weeks”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Long'an
• Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39. From the entry winghold
• As he swerved slightly to miss us, he intrusted his life—and ours—to one of his hands, while with the other he gave us a débonnaire salute.1917, Vernon [Lyman] Kellogg, Headquarters Nights: A Record of Conversations and Experiences at the Headquarters of the German Army in…. From the entry débonnaire
• The study joins ranks of others that have used adversarial inputs to trick the neural networks of autonomous vehicles, including one that forced a Tesla Model S to swerve lanes.2024 May 10, Laura Dobberstein, “GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs”, in The Register. From the entry autonomous vehicle

Meaning of swerve

1. verb To stray; to wander; to rove.
2. verb To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
3. verb To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.

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Questions about swerve in a sentence

How do you use swerve in a sentence?

Swerve is used as a verb and noun. For example: “If I see that type o' muthafucka in the club I just swerve him.”

What is a short sentence with swerve?

“He swerved and snatched a mouthful.”

What does swerve mean?

Swerve means to stray; to wander; to rove.