Explore Swerve through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like turn or turning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Swerve meaning
- To stray; to wander; to rove.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
Using Swerve
- The main meaning on this page is: To stray; to wander; to rove. | To go out of a straight line; to deflect. | To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Useful related words include: turn, turning, slew, slue.
- In the example corpus, swerve often appears in combinations such as: to swerve, swerve strickland, and swerve.
Context around Swerve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swerve
- In this selection, "swerve" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reveal, calling, slow, strickland, dropkick and blocked stand out and add context to how "swerve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to swerve out of and ahead of swerve at every. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swerve" sits close to words such as abbot, adverts and apathy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swerve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
AR sends Swerve into the ring. (6 words)
Swerve followed up with a Swerve Stomp and scored the pin. (11 words)
That raises mystery on whether to swerve or not to swerve. (11 words)
Hangman Page and his mustache didn’t directly reveal Swerve’s opponent, but the cowboy pretty much gave it away when he said he’s going to make Swerve wait “the whole F’N show” to find out. (38 words)
But then again, as we saw with when he was promoting his run on ABC's only to be killed in the first episode, there's always the possibility that it could be a swerve. (35 words)
Driving on a road against an oncoming car, and having to choose either to swerve on the left or to swerve on the right of the road, is also a coordination game. (32 words)
A GK was beaten from a 40 yards out free kick without any deflection or wind-aided swerve and you open your mouth to say its not his fault? (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
He swatted a Swerve dropkick out of the way and went for a Cutter, but Swerve blocked it.
Swerve and Punk kick this one off with a lockup as Swerve sends him to the corner.
Hangman Page and his mustache didn’t directly reveal Swerve’s opponent, but the cowboy pretty much gave it away when he said he’s going to make Swerve wait “the whole F’N show” to find out.
MVP turns the conversation to talking about his issue with Swerve Strickland, calling Swerve’s demeanor full of arrogance.
Swerve followed up with a Swerve Stomp and scored the pin.
That raises mystery on whether to swerve or not to swerve.
With Swerve already securing the world title shot, the interesting part is to observe the landscape that lays ahead for the winner between Swerve and Joe.
Rush and Swerve kicked and struck each other leading to Swerve unintentionally setting up Rush for a Supermodel Kick by Breeze.
Hard palm strike returns from Swerve but there’s yet another backbreaker to slow Swerve down.
Driving on a road against an oncoming car, and having to choose either to swerve on the left or to swerve on the right of the road, is also a coordination game.
There are two pure strategy Nash equilibria in this game (Swerve, Stay) and (Stay, Swerve).
A GK was beaten from a 40 yards out free kick without any deflection or wind-aided swerve and you open your mouth to say its not his fault?
Another sharp swerve, to hallucinogen-inspired introspection, strains the show’s already worn tonal elasticity.
Anthony Bowens, Max Caster, Swerve Strickland and Satnam Singh were all in attendance at the Buffaloes’ practice.
AR Fox stays one step ahead of Swerve at every moment.
AR sends Swerve into the ring.
At the last moment, Johnston said an exit opened up and she was able to swerve out of the way.
Be on the lookout for cars that are traveling too fast for conditions, high profile vehicles that may swerve without notice, and debris that may fly across the road.
But Swerve and Brian Cage — they know what’s coming their way, so be ready.
But then again, as we saw with when he was promoting his run on ABC's only to be killed in the first episode, there's always the possibility that it could be a swerve.
Common combinations with swerve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to swerve 35×
- swerve strickland 24×
- and swerve 11×
- swerve to 8×
- swerve and 7×
- the swerve 7×
- with swerve 5×
- swerve off 5×
- swerve but 4×
- swerve on 4×