How to Use swerve in a Sentence

swerve

verb

• He lost control of the car and swerved toward a tree.
• Royle made a sharp turn to the right to swerve away from the danger.
  — Cassidy Randall, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
• The cyclists fell onto the road, and the car swerved and stopped briefly.
  — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2024
• That spare tire seemed to have failed, causing the truck to swerve in front of the van.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Other drivers had to swerve out of the way to avoid a crash.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• The bus lurched and swerved around crater-size potholes.
  — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
• The truck — in which Davin was a passenger — swerved and hit the back of the semi.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
• But a few details were missing, which caused the truck to swerve and are seen in the video.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 16 May 2024
• The deputy ducked, swerved the squad to get out of the line of fire, and felt pain just below his shoulder.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• The truck driver swerved but struck the bus, Camlin said.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin and Tina Burnside, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
• What’s to stop us from swerving into wildlife in the hopes of a free meal?
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• The French rider waved his left arm in disdain and swerved back and forth across the road.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• The video shows the tractor trailer swerve off the bridge and dive more than 50 feet to the water below.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2022
• Police believe the truck swerved into the path of the bus, causing a head-on crash.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 2 Aug. 2023
• If the stampede doesn’t swerve and doesn’t stop, there is always an out.
  — Robert Ruark, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
• The truck driver swerved to avoid a crash and rolled into a ditch on the opposite side of the road.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
• The sedan driver attempted to swerve back into the left lane but hit the man in the process, Montes said.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• It could have been saved but swerved past the goalkeeper and into the net.
  — Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2024
• The driver of a pickup truck tried to take the exit from the wrong lane, forcing the driver of the SUV to swerve to the right.
  — Andres Picon, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Mar. 2021
• Will someone veer into your lane and force you to swerve?
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
• Parks then drove off, swerving past Brayer's body in the street.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• The white, driverless Jaguar swerved to avoid the bigger car crossing the line and striking it.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• To avoid slamming into the bus, the driver swerved to the right, the sheriff's office said.
  — Will McDuffie, ABC News, 12 May 2023
• The screech of a Democratic Party swerving hard to the left.
  — Vera Bergengruen, Time, 27 June 2019
• Then the car started to swerve, before going full speed ahead over the cliff.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2019
• The vehicle was swerving and had stopped at a green light.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 29 Feb. 2020
• But the car did not appear to swerve in surveillance footage shown in court.
  — Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
• The Bradley jumped and swerved as Dillon chased something, somebody.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• The driver’s vehicle swerved to avoid a ladder on the freeway just north of Portola Parkway in Irvine.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• Two vehicles that were northbound were able to swerve and avoid a collision, according to the release.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024