Example sentences for: steer

How can you use “steer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cornfield has also proposed a national government directory of official candidate Web sites, to help steer voters away from parody sites.

  • In 1978, inspired by the civil-rights movement and his reading of Gandhi, Lee dreams up and then organizes the first sit-ins at an abortion clinic, and so helps to steer the anti-abortion movement from its polite letter-writing phase to its angry street-theater phase.

  • As the American philosopher Quentin Smith has pointed out, "If God created the universe with the aim of making it animate, it is illogical that he would have created as its first state something whose natural evolution would lead with high probability only to inanimate states ." The only way God could have ensured the appearance of creatures in his own image was by repeatedly intervening and making adjustments to steer the evolution of the world away from lifeless disaster.

  • I readily agree that he is "a little old"--if it's true--and quickly steer the discussion in another direction.

  • Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee pledged to devote himself to economic reform and steer away from the anti-Muslim policies that have sometimes characterized his party.


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