Definition of "swerving" [swerving]

• Present participle of swerve. (verb)

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• "The Chorus, which Schiller, swerving from the Greek models, has divided into two contending parts, and made to enter and depart with the principals to whom they are attached, has in his hands become the medium of conveying many beautiful effusions of poetry; but it retards the progress of the plot; it dissipates and diffuses our sympathies; the interest we should take in the fate and prospects of Manuel and Cæsar, is expended on the fate and prospects of man."
• "If the alcohol makes him swerve out of his lane, the swerving is the violation, not the alcohol."
• "According to the Mullet family, he was not really road - shy, but there were one or two objects of dislike that brought on sudden attacks of what Toby called the swerving sickness."