Some swerved to one side, one of the last throwing his rider, while others turned, and charging into those who followed, caused the utmost confusion.
It looked as if all his efforts were concentrated in an attempt to fly past them without giving them battle, and at the thought the natives swerved from their course, and raced to cut off the party.
I swerved madly from side to side to make sure those two haunting ruts had really disappeared, and laughed again when I found I was not thrown off.
When it became hilly, great rocks projected through the surface of the trail, which seldom or never swervedto avoid them.
From the numerous loop-tracks that swerved around it, it had evidently stood there many days.
Again and again I returned to the road and endured its agony for a spell, and again I swerved away from it, my every bone shaking in its joints and my teeth rocking in their sockets with the vibration.
The trail had nowswerved into rugged, mountainous scenery, thickly wooded, wild and picturesque in the extreme.
Slowly they were left behind as we hopped, skipped, and jumped over the rough trail that swerved and twisted untiringly through the strangest country imaginable.
Without waiting for my reply, he seized the dangling end of the speaking-tube and spoke to the driver, and we swerved round and regained the boulevard.
And at last, after hours and hours, the omnibus swerved into a dark road and stopped--stopped finally.
His gaze swerved to the opposite end of the room where it saw a living presence.
He tried to speak in conventional tones; but his gaze swerved from the graceful figure with its dim, white lines that changed and fluttered in the faint breath of air, stealing so gently by them and away.
The child neared her; then swerved away as if in fear, and continued her flight towards the house.
He touched the wheel, the picket-boat swerved into the channel, and the Sub rang for half speed.
Sure enough, they saw another dot against the blue sky rapidly closing "Cuthbert", who had evidently seen him and swerved to the right.
The two of them swerved outside the clumsy motor-lighters and gradually forged ahead, lost sight of them, and went plunging into the head seas, steering by compass and by the glow of the fires of Anzac.
They swerved in their course, swerved sufficiently to enable woman and child to pass by unhurt, but they knocked Meg down and the carriage-wheels went over her.
That accursed one played me false; and, but that I swerved aside lighter than lightening, the throw spear had pierced through my breast.
From the habit of long hostility now, Jason swerved to the other edge of the crowd.
But as quickly they swerved back to find Gray's face aflame with the thought of Mavis.
Could that tall woman be the little girl who, with a tear, a tremor of the voice, and a touch of the hand, had swerved him from the beaten path of a century?
And on that triumphal way Jason swerved his eyes from Marjorie and Mavis swerved hers from Gray.
When he came to the foot of the Mall he swerved to the westward.
Then he clanged the bell unexpectedly, and swerved off the track and down a side street toward the river.
Stand clear," shouted Willem, as he swerved off from the tree, at the same time setting the cap upon his gun.
It was not until the springboks swerved to the right to avoid the horsemen, that these little animals became separated from the giraffes.
The pony swerved as if about to run, but hesitated, ears flattened, curious, half-belligerent.
He rode past the tracks as they swerved toward a grassy level near the stream.
A crackling volley of rifle shots rang out, bullets whined through the air and flattened themselves upon the boulders and the troop swerved sharply to one side.
Then as the animal swerved and passed, not far away, Dick whirled the lariat, sent it flying and braced himself for the shock.
After some time she withdrew that eager gaze, swerved round as if on a pivot, and started at a tremendous pace up the short, windy street that led to the main road.
Miss Ethel swerved quickly round in the same direction, and her pale eyes focused.
He walked as far as the cab-stand to make sure his driver hadn't disappeared; back he swerved again to the little flock huddled in the shelter of the banana crates.
But just as the boy swerved away she held up her plate.
Then, all at once, Mistress Mary swerved off from the main road and was riding down the track leading to the plantation-wharf, whence all the tobacco was shipped for England and all the merchandise imported for household use unladen.
His eyes swerved toward Valerie; their glances encountered casually and passed on.
That was all years ago; and he had never swerved in his determination--not even when Valerie West surprised his life in all the freshness of her young beauty.
At 2500 yards, one destroyer was hit somewhere in the vitals andswerved badly across her next astern, who "was obliged to alter course to avoid a collision, thereby failing to fire a fourth torpedo.
Swoopingly like a sled striking glare, level ice the great car swerved from the bottom of the hill into a soft rolling meadow.
But abruptly even to himself he swerved off instead at the yellow sassafras tree and plunged quite wildly through a mass of broken sods towards the rickety, no-account cedar summer house.
Jerkily the White Linen Nurse swerved off through the French door that opened directly on the piazza.
The ships of England swerved Swiftly--a volley of flame and thunder swept Blinding the buffeted air, a volley of iron From four sheer broadsides, crashing thro' a hulk Of Spain.
And all night long on England's guardian heights The beacons reddened, and all the next long day The impregnable Armada never swerved From its tremendous path.
It would be very interesting to discover at what time, and by what degrees, the practice of election swerved from this strictness.
False, perjured, disloyal, recreant, were the epithets which he must be compelled to endure who had swerved from a plighted engagement even towards an enemy.
Suddenly, when the terrified beasts were almost upon them, they swerved to one side.
The horsemen were in too great haste to turn aside, and the animals, therefore, swerved to the right and continued their brisk gait in the direction of the main herd.
From the kitchen came occasional clinking of cups and plates; the housekeeper had evidently not swerved from her regular work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swerved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
