swerve
IPA: swˈɝv
noun
- A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
- A deviation from duty or custom.
verb
- (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- 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.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
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Examples of "swerve" in Sentences
- The car swerved to avoid the animal.
- It may even swerve off the side of the runway.
- The first is to swerve to avoid a collision loses.
- The car swerved all of a sudden but no one was hurt.
- Bram swerved the car to avoid hitting an animal on the road.
- The ability to countersteer and swerve was essentially absent.
- That's a rather sudden swerve to the generic from the specific.
- Boelcke had to swerve to avoid a midair collision in the dogfight.
- The reason that spin on a football makes it swerve is the Magnus effect.
- Amazingly, the rest of the cars managed to swerve and avoid the stalled cars.
- And if any of my officers swerve from the right and act otherwise than the Holy
- The servant, being anxious to remain in her mistress's service and gain her esteem, resolved not to swerve from the path of virtue.
- 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.
- In deliberation Mr. LINCOLN was not hasty, nor premature; but when once he had taken his stand, he was the last man to swerve from the course marked out for himself.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After a brief conversation, finding her sentiments unchanged, and hearing from her lips a protestation that, though it were to cost her her life, she would never swerve from the principles she had professed at their last meeting, he exclaimed desperately, By God, Florida, your scruples shall not deprive me of the fruit of my toils.
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