(v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
(v. t.) To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Historically, women have been slightly more Conservative than men, while men have tended to veer more towards Labour.
(2) Veering between a patronising video , a vague report and impenetrable financial data does not amount to openness and accountability.
(3) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
(4) Hilda Matheson, the first BBC director of talks in the 1920s, veered culturally towards modernism: she broadcast James Joyce reading from work-in-progress – not at all to the taste of Reith.
(5) Spending time with Fred Miller, 93, and his fiancee Joan Emms, 84, veers close to chaperoning lovestruck teens.
(6) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(7) John Terry’s opener had been thumped in early, Cesc Fàbregas’s corner veering into the penalty area for the centre-half to rise too easily above Rickie Lambert and plant a header down and beyond Simon Mignolet and Steven Gerrard on the goal-line.
(8) But Cameron veered from Libya to adoption, from apprenticeships to gay marriage, and on the economy, from optimism to pessimism.
(9) Most of the consultative medical reports, insurance carriers' and claimants', veered on the adversarial and favored the respective interested party.
(10) Yet, when the occasion was drifting and demanded a more proactive approach, Hodgson had delayed, contemplated and eventually veered towards caution.
(11) The Scotland secretary veered away from this politically explosive option in his Commons statement.
(12) The car continued to travel after passing under the truck’s trailer, veered off the road, and then crashed through two fences and into a power pole, the local police report said.
(13) Biden’s much-anticipated appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert veered almost immediately into raw and personal territory.
(14) Copé, 48, has portrayed himself as Sarkozy's natural successor, and veered to the right, picking up populist themes including "anti-white racism".
(15) He died an accidental death by drowning at age 34 when his wheelchair veered suddenly into a pond eight feet deep.
(16) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(17) We stand ready to assist.” The UN said there were unconfirmed reports of 44 deaths in Vanuatu’s north-eastern islands after Pam veered from its expected track.
(18) But squad car video released last week showed that McDonald veered away from officers as he walked quickly down a four-lane road before he was shot 16 times in October 2014.
(19) The car glides through rolling hills; the camera shows the expression on the boy's face turning from delight to terror; the vehicle veers haphazardly to the side of the road and Théophile is seen leaping out, running to the nearest house for help.
(20) The government is veering towards chaotic process and open insurrection, with angry confusion and divisions in the cabinet and the leadership group about strategy and direction.
Wend
Definition:
() p. p. of Wene.
(v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
(v. i.) To turn round.
(v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
(n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
(4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
(5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
(6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
(7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
(8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
(9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
(10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
(11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
(12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
(13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.