Swerved
[swə:vd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Swerve
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Examples
- I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But even before his body swerved forward on her, a sudden, cunning comprehension was expressed on her face, and in a flash she was out of the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So she swerved down to the steep, tree-hidden bank above the pond, where the alders twisted their roots. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But soon he swerved to the whist-table, rubbing his hands and saying, Come now, let us be serious! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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