Get to know Sideswipe better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like blow or bump.
Sideswipe meaning
- A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously.
- A catty or sarcastic remark.
Using Sideswipe
- The main meaning on this page is: A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously. | A catty or sarcastic remark.
- Useful related words include: blow, bump, strike.
- In the example corpus, sideswipe often appears in combinations such as: sideswipe at.
Context around Sideswipe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sideswipe
- In this selection, "sideswipe" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grimlock, vehicles, accidents and georgia stand out and add context to how "sideswipe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bumblebee grimlock sideswipe and wheeljack and contains a sideswipe at irving. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sideswipe" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sideswipe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, sideswipe accidents happen more often when cars are facing the same direction. (13 words)
The pickup went on to sideswipe a Nissan Quest before finally coming to a stop in lanes, according to Lassig. (20 words)
Players take on the roles of Autobot heroes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Sideswipe, and Wheeljack in a stunning throwback to the classic 1980s cartoons. (24 words)
George Bernard Shaw 's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson 's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: "The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments. (38 words)
Dorian, meanwhile, pushed its way northward off the Florida shoreline with reduced but still-dangerous 105 mph (165 kph) winds on a projected course that could sideswipe Georgia and the Carolinas. (31 words)
Today featured an all-time Johnny Miller moment, though, as Miller took a sideswipe at longtime target Phil Mickelson in a moment that had nothing to do with Sunday’s round. (31 words)
Example sentences (7)
Players take on the roles of Autobot heroes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Sideswipe, and Wheeljack in a stunning throwback to the classic 1980s cartoons.
The pickup went on to sideswipe a Nissan Quest before finally coming to a stop in lanes, according to Lassig.
However, sideswipe accidents happen more often when cars are facing the same direction.
Dorian, meanwhile, pushed its way northward off the Florida shoreline with reduced but still-dangerous 105 mph (165 kph) winds on a projected course that could sideswipe Georgia and the Carolinas.
Three of the four accidents have seen cars back out into oncoming traffic with at least one vehicle written off while the other incident saw two vehicles sideswipe each other.
Today featured an all-time Johnny Miller moment, though, as Miller took a sideswipe at longtime target Phil Mickelson in a moment that had nothing to do with Sunday’s round.
George Bernard Shaw 's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson 's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: "The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.
Common combinations with sideswipe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sideswipe at 2×