| 1. | He swerve not too secure tell him withal. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | To swerve from truth, or change his constant min. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | Come, Ahab's compliments to ye come and see if ye can swerve me. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | Swerve me ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves man has ye there. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | charge, that you swerve not from the smallest article of it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not swerve from it. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint the plan was to draw Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Milton is the poet of steadfast will and purpose, who moves like a god amid the fears and hopes and changing impulses of the world, regarding them as trivial and momentary things that can never swerve a great soul from its course. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 10. | He swerved aside, and attempted to pass. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 11. | Once the mare swerved at a white gate-post and nearly threw him. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | The horse stumbled in a rut, then swerved aside and broke into a gallop. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 13. | Still without answering, Corley swerved to the left and went up the side street. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 14. | His revery had not swerved from its course. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | Bondarchuk's horse swerved and galloped past. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 16. | From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain janglin. - from The King James Bible |
| 17. | The carriage swerved from the tramtrack to the smoother road past Watery lane. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 18. | Denisov's horse swerved aside to avoid a pool in the track and bumped his rider's knee against a tree. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |