swerve

Example Sentences

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I want to swerve here to talk about the word that keeps coming to mind when I look at the president’s leadership, and it is “mood.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Still, I’ve decided to simply embrace my butt, even with its quirky swerve.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

The brewer said early last month that production at six beer factories had resumed, while it was processing orders by hand in an effort to swerve potential drinks shortages.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Not that “Eternity,” after a plot swerve that had this viewer fooled, doesn’t find a nifty way to stick its heartfelt landing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Certainly Joe had never seen his father kill anything, except for meat, or unless it was poisonous—his father would swerve a truck almost unconsciously to squash a rattlesnake or a tarantula on the road.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols