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Example sentences for: veered

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On Sept. 23, the $123 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost when it veered off course and burned up in the Martian atmosphere.
His altitude veered wildly.
Spinmeisters of the right are already saying that this election was all about tactics--that if only Dole were a better campaigner, if only Clinton hadn't shamelessly veered right, if only Gingrich hadn't thrown a tantrum on Air Force One, the conservative wave would have rolled on.
He streaked down the right side of the court, took a pass, veered toward the bucket, and went airborne.
Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...