Examples of sideswipe in a Sentence

Verb The taxi sideswiped a parked car. Noun She took a sideswipe at the senator's voting record.

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The drivers appeared to sideswipe each other before Buckner was struck by one of the cars. — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022 By early Thursday, Larry is forecast to sideswipe Bermuda, where a tropical storm warning is in effect. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021 Then gusty winds will begin to sideswipe the Florida Gulf Coast early Tuesday, progressing from south to north during the day. — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021 Residents along Florida's east coast on Friday prepared to deal with dueling disasters — a hurricane that threatened to sideswipe the coast even as the novel coronavirus continues to spread in the state. — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2020 The need to suddenly become teachers, during this pandemic, has sideswiped the working patterns of mothers and fathers alike. — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 21 May 2020 The virus outbreak has sideswiped the region with a raft of new, potentially much broader uncertainties. — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020 The officers learned that the victim had been sideswiped by another vehicle traveling on Piney Point Road. — Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2020 Police said the pedestrian was on the shoulder of I-95 at I-695 in Arbutus with a disabled vehicle around 7:20 a.m. Witnesses told police a Ford van drifted into the shoulder, sideswiping the victim’s vehicle before crashing into him. — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The Ginni Thomas leaks are a political sideswipe that will make its conclusions harder to credit. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022 What could have been an injurious collision was thankfully more of a sideswipe. — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020 The most common crash seen at the current Delaware Street ramp weave is a sideswipe followed by a rear-end collision, according to INDOT. — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2020 Many of the accidents were attributed to rear-end collisions caused by vehicles stopping in a travel lane and sideswipe accidents caused by vehicles changing lanes, the city said in a news release. — Robin Goist, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019 Cars with lane-departure warning systems had 11 percent fewer single-vehicle, sideswipe, and head-on crashes than those without the technology, for example. — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019 Gordon Monson of the Salt Lake Tribune: USC sideswipes Utah, knocking the Utes off their path to glory. — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019 Davis said many rear-end crashes and sideswipes on the Brent Spence Bridge happen because drivers entering at Fourth Street who wish to continue on I-75 don't have enough time to cross multiple lanes of traffic. — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 7 Aug. 2019 Scott also praised law enforcement for responding to natural disasters and mass shootings, but took a sideswipe at his opponent, incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson, for not demanding more accountability at the FBI. — Gray Rohrer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 June 2018 See More

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