How to Use sideswipe in a Sentence

sideswipe

1 of 2 verb

• The taxi sideswiped a parked car.
• His car sideswiped a wooden bridge.
  — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
• On his way to hunt desert sheep with me one time, he even got sideswiped by a semi.
  — Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2020
• The truck sideswiped the minivan and struck the man who had gotten out of his car.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• At times, fill-in left tackle Justin Skule was sideswiped.
  — Jenna West, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• The rider told police he was sideswiped by a driver who fled.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• The dump truck then sideswiped the semi-trailer truck and went into a ditch.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
• The car crossed the centerline and then sideswiped the motorhome.
  — Steven Dubois, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• The truck sideswiped the student, who was knocked off his electric wheelchair.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• All of them involved a car sideswiping the back of a tractor-trailer that was making a lane change.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• The impact caused the suspect to lose control, sideswipe a tree and go flying off the scooter.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
• The driver lost control of the bus, which jumped onto the sidewalk and took flight through a pair of trees, sideswiping them.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• The man whose car had been sideswiped followed the suspect and saw him, after the crash, get out of his car's passenger side and run.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Out front, there was a child's play kitchen with a sink full of stagnant, reedy water and a white car whose whole front had been sideswiped and deeply dented.
  — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
• Thursday after she was seen weaving between lanes and sideswiping a guardrail, Lt.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
• Duprey, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, lost control, sideswiped a tree and was thrown off the scooter, officials said.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
• The car would not stop and the driver eventually hit a speed of 60 miles per hour, at one point sideswiping a car.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The pickup then sideswiped the car, and the victim followed the pickup to get a license plate number, police said.
  — Loyd Brumfield, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
• The man then lost control of the bike and sideswiped a Subaru Legacy that was in the left lane, state police said.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
• The station itself was sideswiped by the twister, but other buildings were completely destroyed.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• The officer pursued the man, who sideswiped two vehicles, including a school bus.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Twenty-five times, other drivers rear-ended the Ubers, and eight times other drivers sideswiped them.
  — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, 6 Nov. 2019
• The car went onto the right shoulder and sideswiped a 2012 Toyota Prius.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 30 July 2017
• The drivers appeared to sideswipe each other before Buckner was struck by one of the cars.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
• Going about 70 mph in their red Prius, they were hit from behind by an 18-wheeler, which then sideswiped them.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 23 June 2023
• Police said Taylor’s car sideswiped the side of the other vehicle, left the road and struck a utility pole.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• The man left his lane and struck a construction barrel before sideswiping a guardrail and leaving the highway, Montes said.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• The man sideswiped a car occupied by two people during the pursuit, Grossmyer said.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 19 July 2019
• The storm sideswiped Puerto Rico, knocking out power for about a million people.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff and Wire Reports, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• After sideswiping a tractor-trailer, Garrison would pull over while the spotter sped ahead to flag down the truck’s driver.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

sideswipe

2 of 2 noun

• She took a sideswipe at the senator's voting record.
• What could have been an injurious collision was thankfully more of a sideswipe.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
• Troopers suspect the vehicle should be missing a hubcap on one of the tires and have damage to the front right and possibly right sideswipe damage.
  — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• Nursick noted that narrowing travel lanes can increase the potential for head-on and crossover or sideswipe crashes.
  — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 2 May 2018
• The Ginni Thomas leaks are a political sideswipe that will make its conclusions harder to credit.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• Lane-keeping systems lowered rates of single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes, in which there were injuries, by 21 percent.
  — Joan Lowy, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2017
• Electrons in the magnetic field sideswipe oxygen atoms or nitrogen molecules in the Earth's atmosphere.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Electrons in the magnetic field sideswipe oxygen atoms or nitrogen molecules in the Earth's atmosphere.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Instead, their most recent live pricing model took a sideswipe at standard capitalism by giving customers the chance to buy their most popular items at the wholesale price, simply by buying the product first.
  — Lynette Nylander, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
• In 2004, there were sixty-nine sideswipe accidents in New Orleans in which a passenger vehicle collided with a large truck.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• The forecast track for Maria hasn’t changed much today, with the storm still expected to remain off shore but sideswipe coastal locations with tropical storm conditions beginning on Tuesday.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Lane-keeping systems lowered rates of single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes of all severities by 11 percent, and crashes of those types in which there were injuries, by 21 percent, the study found.
  — Joan Lowy, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2017
• Advertisement In addition to being a traffic chokepoint, officials say nearly 80 percent of crashes in the intersection are sideswipes or rear-end collisions, which can indicate confusion among drivers.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 19 July 2023