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How to use swerve in a sentence

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I had cars either side so close that our wheels were interlocked and I couldn't swerve, and I got hit front and back.
Before they can turn they are having to swerve to the outside lane to give themselves some place.
I managed to swerve and avoid hitting them but I grazed the bicycle and we all fell.
The winger, a product of York's powerful junior section, took his chance with pace, swerve and strength but Ford could not make the conversion.
On one occasion I almost killed a cyclist who had to swerve out of the cycle lane to avoid a car parked in the lane during restricted hours.
How about doing something about the bikie hoons that feel it's their right to do 150 on the Ring Road and swerve past cars?
I need to do a nifty leftward swerve right where you've parked your eight year old child!
The swerve on the ball took it into the no-man's land between goalkeeper and defence, but Sloan had failed to track the run of Lasley.
Another neat body swerve took him past Travers again and he rattled the net with his shot.
He has accuracy and the ability to make the ball dip and swerve or whatever is needed.
This week we answer the question, Why do drivers swerve back and forth while running behind the pace car before a race?
He nods it to me, I feign to go right, but at the last moment I give him the old Stanley Matthews body swerve and bullet it to the left.
If you turn to speak to a passenger or look down to set a navaid while rolling, for example, a swerve is a distinct possibility.
The sound effects make you want to swerve head-on into the guard rails to miss whatever it is that you haven't seen.
There is, for a start, the little matter of flight, which often contains an element of swerve in the last few feet.
Motorists whiz down the street and when the speed breaker suddenly looms ahead they swerve to avoid it.
I have, in isolated cases, had walkers deliberately walk in front of the bike and I have had to swerve to avoid them.
They often, too, ride two abreast, causing car drivers to swerve to the other side of the road to pass them.
I run away from netballs, swerve to avoid hockey sticks, grind to a halt in the sack race.
They have put traffic calming islands in the road, but lorries just swerve round them like juggernauts.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A good dozen, however, saw what was happening in time to swerve their mounts and hightail it away.
In a swerve he almost stopped, every muscle of his big body trembling in affright.
The Richard dipped with a swerve which threw him violently against the coaming.
But I, donzel, wear the spurs of knighthood, and to succour the distressed is a duty my oath will not let me swerve from.
His Brownings opened up and he saw the Stuka stagger and swerve as he thundered past in a hissing dive.
It has fixed rules which are the props of order, and will not swerve or bend in extreme cases.
As they saw the pontificals swerve back they uttered cries of joy.
And even now it was held to be undignified to swerve from that doctrine.
He would not swerve from the line of duty which he had marked out.
They were on their way homeward, but had been obliged to swerve from their ordinary route through the mountains, by deep snows.
Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick saw these things and then with increasing wonder he saw the ape-man swerve, too, and leap for the spotted cat as a football player leaps for a runner.
Casaubon felt a surprise which was quite unmixed with pleasure, but he did not swerve from his usual politeness of greeting, when Will rose and explained his presence.
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