swerve 
swerve (swʉrv)
intransitive verb, transitive verb swerved, swerv′·ing
to turn aside or cause to turn aside sharply or suddenly from a straight line, course, etc.
Etymology: ME swerven < OE sweorfan, to file away, scour < IE base *swerbh-, to turn, wipe, sweep > Gr syrphetos, sweepings, litter
noun
the act or degree of swerving
Object
- shot: The Australian smashed a wicked, swerving shot at the near post, which Dean Kiely just managed to punch out for a corner.
- kick: Vectors in sports In the 1950s a group of talented Brazilian footballers invented the swerving free kick.
- ball: Swerve the ball into the path of a forward running team mate, curl the ball across from a corner kick.
- effort: Mayer continued to press forward and had a dipping, swerving, effort well saved by Lawrie.
- round: We had been told to aim into the wind, so as to swerve the round into the center of the figure 11 target.
- drive: A poor defensive header fell to the dangerous Routledge on the left and the winger cut inside before unleashing a fierce swerving drive.
Noun used with modifier
- body: The aim of the body swerve is to dummy the defender into moving the wrong way.
Adjective complement
- past: He managed to swerve past, but the guy reached out and made contact as the van skidded past.
Modifying Another Word
- violently: During this time the car was driven at high speeds and swerved violently from side to side.
- suddenly: Don't swerve suddenly to avoid a poor surface.
- away: Like the weaker party in a game of chicken, the Community has swerved away at the last minute.
- never: Q: If you see a West Brom Fan on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him?
- then: The carriage went a way and then swerved, hanging over the current.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: They are fast flyers, and swerve around in the air in tight groups.
Followed by a transitive particle
- around: Trying to swerve around the front could put the rider into the path of oncoming traffic.
- off: The £ 55k reason why Ashley Cole nearly swerved off the road.
Infinitive complement
- avoid: A member of the junior staff recently had to swerve to avoid a young child running through the car park.
- miss: Four athletes from Prairie View A&M University were killed when the driver swerved to miss a car.
Particle object:
- road: The £ 55k reason why Ashley Cole nearly swerved off the road.
Preposition: across
- lane: He then went down the A556 swerving across both lanes, through traffic lights and hit the curb before pulling up.
To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.
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