Sentence examples for veer from inspiring English sources

The word "veer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning "to turn or deviate from a course, especially suddenly or sharply" or an intransitive verb meaning "to change direction" or "to lean". Example sentence: The wind caused the boat to veer off course.

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veer

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To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.

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Pint from £3.20, 85-87 Gwydir Street, 01223 471680, the-cambridgeblue.co.uk With the craft beer revolution being less well advanced in Cambridge than it is in the UK's cities, you occasionally have to veer off-piste to drink well.

Surrounded by highlighters, guidance documents and notes, I veer between feeling like Erin Brockovich [the US activist – played by Julia Roberts in a movie – who fought an energy company over contaminated water] and a 12-year-old trying my best with a history project.

Then there was the move (most likely fuelled by a desire to hold on to the rights) to reboot the property just five years later, with Andrew Garfield replacing Tobey Maguire and Marc Webb taking over from Raimi; the storyline failed to veer significantly from the origins story detailed in Spider-Man just a decade before.

Since the start of 2014, these streams have begun to veer into each other and collide.

So you instinctively choose someone not just because of their policies, but because you think they'd veer off course in a direction you would find acceptable.

Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.

Just how does she veer so effortlessly between her clones?

Contributions will be perceived as off-topic if they veer substantively and wildly from the current conversation topic, either as an attempt to derail the conversation or as completely irrelevant.

The result is that the magnet causes the sensor to vibrate more strongly when the vibrations within the chest cavity veer away from the sweet spot.

But unless the government can restructure the civil service and curb tax evasion, the bail-out will veer off track, fears the "troika" of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.Blips are appearing.

He quoted George Santayana, a dead philosopher, then joked that his pet dog was calling on Californians to "bark if you don't like deficits!"Interviewed in his office afterwards, Mr Brown allowed himself to veer further off-base, citing Wittgenstein, Matthew Arnold and Buddhism as he explained his governing philosophy.

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