How to Use swerve in a Sentence

swerve

verb

• He lost control of the car and swerved toward a tree.
• 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 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
• 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
• Will someone veer into your lane and force you to swerve?
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
• 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 Bradley jumped and swerved as Dillon chased something, somebody.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes a fly would swerve in response to a black bar even when the bar didn't obscure their line of sight.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2022
• Drivers who swerve to miss a deer and hit something else may be charged for an at-fault crash.
  — Jared Goffinet, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2021
• Then, suddenly, the camera swerves to a dark room where the man this song is addressed to sits gagged and tied to a chair.
  — Roisin Kiberd, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The driver who tried to swerve lost control and crashed into a northbound ditch.
  — Annie Mattea, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2021
• The caller said a white Ford F-150 pickup truck had been swerving across lanes on the road and run into a ditch.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2023
• Padres third baseman Jantzen Witte threw the ball to second base and Lux swerved to his left to avoid being hit.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• The crash’s impact caused the semi-truck to swerve and block the eastbound lane of Osceola Polk Line Road.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
• Ysabel, 19, swerved into the camera with a look of surprise.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• Another woman also noticed the man in the road after the crash and tried to swerve out of the way, but was unable to.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2021
• Streisand often seems just about to swerve into nonsense, then steers herself back to the point.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• The sheriff’s department said the driver of the 18-wheeler truck attempted to swerve to avoid the man.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
• The 71-year-old driver of the Dodge attempted to swerve out of the way but was unable to avoid the collision, reports said.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Oct. 2021
• For unknown reasons, the SUV swerved off the road around 10:25 a.m. and crashed into a freeway overpass wall.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Still, horns would blare, and some geniuses would swerve at me slightly.
  — Nick Offerman, Outside Online, 21 July 2022
• The impact caused the vehicle to swerve back into the right lane of travel, cross the center lane, and stop in the left lane of three, police said.
  — Hartford Courant, 29 May 2022
• While the habitat of the novel has gone dry, Williams’s sentences swerve toward lushness.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Some have been struck by passing vehicles or forced passing drivers to swerve out of the way and crash.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• The semi attempted to swerve to avoid the crash, the news release said, but struck the Pontiac broadside.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2021
• All start-ups pivot and swerve in search of a sustainable path forward.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024