sideswipes

present tense third-person singular of sideswipe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sideswipes
Verb
  • Your second step should be to determine how high flood water is likely to rise in your area if a storm hits.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As the fashion week cycle continues, celebrity beauty hits an all-time high.
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wednesday swipes Enid’s driver’s-ed consent form to sneak off to visit Tyler at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • People should not pay anyone who contacts them with cryptocurrency, wire transfers or gift cards.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That person, who often is located overseas, contacts the victim — or convinces the victim to contact them — and falsely claims the victim’s identity or bank account has been hacked or compromised.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bubba purposefully knocks a girl down with a dodgeball, and when Mary tells him to stop being mean, Bubba punches her.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • First, any major event such as a the emergence of DeepSeek that knocks the AI thesis could have a sizeable impact on the stock market.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sunny Hostin strikes a pose at the opening of the 50th Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York, which benefits the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When sunlight strikes a leaf, energy races across protein structures before it can be stored and used.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Sideswipes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sideswipes. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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