Usage examples for swerve:

• His one thought was to delay it or make it swerve in its course momentarily, with the hope that by some chance Eva might have time to escape. "The Master Mystery" – Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

• I do not believe that for anything this world could offer her, Mrs. Montgomery would swerve a hair's breadth from justice. "The Allen House or Twenty Years Ago and Now" – T. S. Arthur

• Else why should Dusty Star swerve suddenly to the right along a new trail, and in doing so turn to look behind? "Dusty Star" – Olaf Baker

• And to the old wagon again they went, to trail their way up the narrow road along the bubbling, wooden flume which led from the lake, to swerve off at the dam and turn into the hills again. "The White Desert" – Courtney Ryley Cooper