What's the difference between curler and swerve?

Curler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, curls.
  • (n.) A player at the game called curling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because space was tight and we wanted to do justice to these things, I put a interview we had with curler Eve Muirhead back a week."
  • (2) Italy hit the post for a second time, via Diamanti's left-footed curler, and will think they could have spared themselves extra time.
  • (3) The Spaniard attempted a curler beyond Boaz Myhill, aimed to go inside the goalkeeper’s right post, but it went wide.
  • (4) If he did, it was wonderful skill - he overlapped in characteristic style and, from a preposteropusly acute angle and with the keeper anticipating a cross, he swirled it into the net at the near post, one of the most improbable, superbly executed curlers since Nelhinho in 1978.
  • (5) He cleverly took some of Amy Adams's sideboob wardrobe and Bradley Cooper's curlers and turned them into a lesson about how we shouldn't get distracted by "fashionable" issues, by which I strongly suspect he means such silly little trends as believing addiction is an illness or the legalisation of gay marriage, which, as you may recall, he worried could be the right's Stalingrad .
  • (6) Much prefer the old curler 12.43pm GMT 24 min: Leeds are enjoying a long period of possession now.
  • (7) A few exchanges later, Birsa finally gets on the ball, cutting inside from the right wing and attempting a curler towards the bottom left.
  • (8) Premier League 2015-16 review: goal of the season | Gregg Bakowski Read more David Hytner Cuco Martina v Arsenal, a first-time, outside-of-the-boot curler 19 minutes into his full league debut for Southampton.
  • (9) Nasri cuts inside from the left and, on the edge of the area, unleashes a purler of a curler towards the bottom-right corner.
  • (10) 57 min Iniesta plays an inviting pass to Villa, whose rudimentary left-footed curler from the edge of the box is easily saved by the sprawling Benaglio.
  • (11) He tries a curler, but it wafts into the path of Samuel, who clears easily.
  • (12) Sunderland , though, could easily have gone three up when, having dribbled beyond two markers, Johnson's curler hit a post with Krul beaten.
  • (13) David Silva striking an upright with an exquisite left-foot curler from the angle of the area was the highlight of an oddly scrappy first half.
  • (14) His early raids were down the right; now he bombs down the left, cuts inside, and lays off to Hamsik, who attempts a curler in the top-right corner.
  • (15) 32 min After Russia work the ball nicely around the edge of Spain's area, Pavlyuchenko tries a Whelan-in-the-Milk-Cup-of-1983 curler that Casillas tips round the post.
  • (16) Gradel found Pugh in space on the left and he sent Jenkinson skidding off into the distance before bending a sumptuous curler past Randolph.
  • (17) A Marcelo curler beat Hart for a first equaliser before Karim Benzema answered Kolarov's strike and Ronaldo stepped up to grab the glory as the world's second-best player should.
  • (18) And then I went through a period when I went to sleep with great big curlers.
  • (19) Lloris had to palm away Campbell’s left-foot curler for the far corner and Giroud had his chances.
  • (20) It broke to Buchwald – the bloody centre-back – who controlled it calmly 20 yards from goal and then, using Steven as a screen, placed a lovely curler to the left of Shilton that bounced up on to the outside of the post!

Swerve


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stray; to wander; to rope.
  • (v. i.) To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to incline.
  • (v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  • (v. t.) To turn aside.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
  • (2) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
  • (3) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
  • (4) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
  • (5) Booed off at the interval, Sunderland began the second half by watching a shot from Stephen Gleeson, the visiting captain, swerve fractionally wide.
  • (6) Politicians of all parties have swerved this way and that.
  • (7) Due to oncoming traffic he couldn’t and swerved in towards me and my child on a bike seat.
  • (8) Swerving sanctions … and Swiss lawyers The Panama Papers help explain how people close to Putin became enriched.
  • (9) But by exaggerating the point, Parker swerves around another truth – that the UK's intelligence agencies are already scooping up more material than ever before, and GCHQ has an ambition to go further.
  • (10) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (11) 8.23pm BST 38 min: Right on cue, Lampard becomes a positive presence for Chelsea, receiving the ball 25 yards from goal and unleashing a viciously swerving shot that forced Artur to produce a magnificent one-handed save!
  • (12) I’m waiting to hear what he says about Joshua because I have a feeling he’ll swerve him too.
  • (13) 45 min: The half concludes with a fine, swerving cross by Belhadj to Djebbour, who, predictably, misses it.
  • (14) Bale won one from Oliver Norwood in the 56th minute and Michael McGovern had to dive to keep out his dipping, swerving shot.
  • (15) 53 min: Internazionale goalkeeper Julio Cesar is pressed in to service, diving low and to his right to save a viciously swerving shot from Lionel Messi.
  • (16) We were able to swerve around the big distributional issues – and indeed the laws of politics – given the supposed end to boom and bust.
  • (17) The deft swerve around the words "dinner party" (these, being aspirational middle class, are presumably non-U in Maude-ian circles) and "meal" (also non-U, though I've no idea why; I'm only aware of this at all because a horrible old Etonian I once met ticked me off when it fell sluttishly from my lips).
  • (18) He turned, stepped away from Xavi and thumped a swerving rocket into the top corner by Pinto's near post.
  • (19) The EgyptAir flight that plunged into the Mediterranean Sea last week did not swerve before it went down, according to senior Egyptian officials, in a sharp contradiction of comments about “sudden swerves” made by the Greek defence minister .
  • (20) In the video, the driver appears to attempt to swerve away from the activist before knocking him to the road.

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