How to Use veer in a Sentence

veer

1 of 2 verb

• The bus then left the road, veered onto the shoulder and flipped.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• The shadows that were purple in the fall now veer toward blue.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• John had to veer into the next lane just as traffic was whizzing past.
  — Colin Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Will someone veer into your lane and force you to swerve?
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
• Will top leaders veer left or right, or stick to a centrist course?
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Kelly tried to veer away from the topic during the campaign.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• The train, which was traveling from the city of Leiden to The Hague, veered off track in the village of Voorschoten at 3:25 a.m. local time.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• The car’s tracks had run along a road’s shoulder and rocky berm before veering farther away from the paved road.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 July 2023
• Her drug habit over the decades — her mother was a heroin addict — veered from Tylenol to crack to meth to fentanyl.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The car veered off southbound Interstate 5 and overturned in the creek below.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• York had also veered kicks of 49 and 46 yards wide right in the first two preseason games against the Jets and Commanders.
  — cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• The car’s tire tracks ran along the shoulder of the road and rocky berm before veering away from the paved road, authorities said.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• But just as modesty seemed to be getting the upper hand, the bottom edge veered north and slyly arched over the cheeks – coy as a wink.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Richardson broke slowly out of the blocks and veered slightly to the right in opening steps, costing herself time.
  — Nick Zaccardi, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Six weeks later, the UK veered the other way, voting to leave the European Union.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
• The scrappy ragtag team, the gruff but kind coach, the against-the-odds triumph — sports dramas rarely veer far from a basic template.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Don’t be afraid to veer off in a new direction or try something foreign.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• The chair veered into the photographers sitting on the baseline.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Some vehicles in the convoy were hit, forcing others behind them to veer off the path.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• The motorcycle then veered off the roadway and struck a tree, officials said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
• The violins indeed soared toward the sun, then veered into seething brass.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• And Antarctic sea ice veered from record high to shocking amounts far lower than ever seen.
  — Melina Walling, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The southbound car veered to the right, crashed off the overpass at East Naples Street and landed on the roadway below, the agency reported.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• To be sure, a heavy contingent of police was on hand to make sure the event did not veer outside the boundaries of acceptable protest.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• And Sarkisian’s play-calling could oddly veer away from what was working.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Nov. 2022
• The sets are elaborate, at times veering close to magical.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• Schools were closed, cars veered into ditches, and DeSantis did his best to bond with locals over their strange, snowy ways.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• The show became a huge hit for Netflix, but Hughes’ mother has criticized it for veering from the truth.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• But as the lives of the super-rich have increasingly veered into extremes, so have their problems.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• So, while Hovde started with an element of truth, his claim veered widely from there, just as past claims have.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024

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veer

2 of 2 noun

• Gary Mills, in the back of Cashe’s Bradley, felt the vehicle veer right just before the blast.
  — Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2021
• The city is located at the point where the Volga veers east, as if attracted by the pull of the Urals.
  — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• Lime Kiln Trail veers left following the north fork of Cliffhanger.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
• The music veers from R&B to pop to prog-rock in the space of four minutes as the song’s tone becomes more serious.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• The alert skier veers to the right as the avalanche continues down the slope to avoid being caught up in the cascading snow, the video shows.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
• De La Salle used its veer offense to roll up more than 200 first-half rushing yards.
  — Mitch Stephens, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• The Rams run a split-back veer offense that is similar to the offense used at Curtis.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Fairbanks’s sharp veer right has turned people against her.
  — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 18 May 2017
• The new helmet veers from the team's typical silver helmets, and for the first time, goes with the team's Honolulu Blue.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• There is little spice present, and the palate veers more towards the sweeter side with the agave notes being fairly muted.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2023
• No, De La Salle has not abandoned the veer option offense that helped make the program famous.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2019
• The puppy eyeliner look aims to widen and round eyes via a reversed wing that veers slightly down rather than up and away.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• For those who parked a shuttle vehicle at the Sandys Canyon trailhead, veer left at the junction and hike 1.5 miles for a 5.6 mile one-way trek.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2022
• His voice never goes cold, never veers into the crucible.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Over the course of an album, that approach veers towards formula.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
• Very clean and crisp on initial taste, but there’s a distinctive finish that veers slightly sour.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• The company will use sensors and GPS data to detect if a ride veers from the normal course or ends too early.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Its tone veers from laugh-out-loud funny to achingly sad to third-act-of-Goodfellas-level frantic, and back and forth again.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• But there’s a chance the snow cuts off earlier in the night in that region if the precipitation veers to the south, as some models suggest.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Curtis replied when asked how often his team plays against other veer option teams.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 10 Oct. 2020
• The Falcons found the end zone on the ensuing drive when Padilla kept the ball on a veer option and bolted through the middle of the Brennan defense for a 13-yard touchdown.
  — Zach Mason, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Nov. 2021
• Pilot whales have strong social ties and even if only a few members of a pod veer off course, the others often follow.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2020
• A few thousand veer into Blue Creek, whose headwaters lie far up in the Siskiyou Wilderness.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
• Karr players likened the Carencro offense to the split back veer system John Curtis has used successfully for the past five decades or so.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• Remove those conditions, and the public veers in a pro-choice direction.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
• These fights about the facts of their childhood veer past the hilarious and into the terrifying: Who played piano?
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 July 2021
• Cross a dirt road and veer left to continue another 0.3 miles on Outer Limits to the Bottom Out junction.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
• But, perhaps worn down from being on the field for too many plays against the split back veer rushing attack, Karr allowed touchdowns on four of the five drives that began the second half.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• The record goes places darker than fans may be used to hearing, but never veers gloomy, and ends rather purposefully on a note of optimism.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
• Even though Knudsen stuck to the run-heavy veer offense until the end, rather than turn to the spread passing game that so many schools recently have employed, the Eagles' offense moved the ball.
  — Nick Daschel, OregonLive.com, 9 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024