SWERVE in a Sentence
Learn SWERVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
39 example sentences for SWERVE, such as:
1. The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
2. Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
3. The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.
4. The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.
5. The least swerve, and we'd never ha come up again.
2. Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
3. The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.
4. The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.
5. The least swerve, and we'd never ha come up again.
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Meanings and Examples of SWERVE
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swerve
v. wander or stray; turn aside sharply; climb or move upward
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 The least swerve, and we'd never ha come up again.
2 She sawed savagely at the horse's mouth just in time to swerve him from leaping up the front steps.
3 Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me.
4 The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left.
5 That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not swerve from it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
6 His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth.
7 He watched their flight; bird after bird: a dark flash, a swerve, a flutter of wings.
8 For he who would be greatly loved, if he swerve ever so little from the right road, becomes contemptible; while he who would be greatly feared, if he go a jot too far, incurs hatred.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXI.
9 The road from Mansfield swerved round to the north.
10 It swerved at the bottom of the hill and disappeared; but it had such a lovely easy curve, of knights riding and ladies on palfreys.
11 She followed the broad riding that swerved round and up through the larches to a spring called John's Well.
12 The chair reached the bottom of the slope, and swerved round, to disappear.
13 They came to the dark bottom of the hollow, turned to the right, and after a hundred yards swerved up the foot of the long slope, where bluebells stood in the light.
14 She slowed up rather suddenly and swerved off the road, the lights glaring white into the grassy, overgrown lane.
15 I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from.
Example Sentence:
1 He predicted that gravitational interaction caused light from stars beyond the sun to deviate or swerve from a straight path as it passed the sun.
2 It looks like they must crash, this sea of people, but they swerve and swing around each other, like dancers pirouetting, and they all get to the other side safely.
3 She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.
4 Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.
5 The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.
6 The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
7 The lorry swerved sharply to avoid the child.
8 Finally he returned to the official line from which he had swerved.
9 The car hit a hump in the road and swerved.
10 Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
11 The car swerved at every curve in the serpentine road.