What is "slewed"

Usage examples of "slewed".

At the very last second Porta gave a despairing wrench at the wheel and the sled slewed away in the opposite direction, but we had no time to sit back and applaud, nor to mop our brows with relief, nor to check our casualties, for the second sled was approaching fast.

Heads tilted, arms were thrown up, the raft lost its footing on the wave and slewed as the thing struck down, not at the raft itself but into the water beyond it Now the arch spanned the raft and closed on it The head emerged behind the sternboard, shooting on and over to make a second coil, now gripping the raft, hauling it back through the wave, tilting it, spilling all that was loose into the churning water, while the head emerged for the third time, hovered a moment and hammered down onto the timbers, blow after blow, smashing the structure apart in an explosion of sunlit foam.

Lorne, who was sitting next Winters, was killed outright, being on the side next the lorry, and Halstock and his boy were hurt pretty serious, them being at the back, which took a lot of the impact as the car slewed round.

A second later the wrecked boat slewed violently to the side and overturned, catapulting everyone into the seething afterwash of the surf.

In burning slabs like pyroclastic flow the top of the tower slewed off, militia pods falling out and tumbling.

The gunners desperately slewed the guns round, the men heaving on the handspikes as yet more bullets came from the north.

Then there was the hiss of retrojets, and the garish machine slewed to a halt right beside him.

The vehicle slewed to the right, its rear end smashing into the row of trikes and bowling them over.

Or perhaps he had changed his mind at the last second, for the Vectra, which had been arrowing in on the conning-tower, suddenly slewed sharply to starboard.

Then, her expression registering fury, she slewed partway around and imperiously beckoned to someone standing at the back, below the stage.

The steepness of the glacier, not to mention sudden unaccountable dips to left and right across its width, must have made the heavy sled a dangerous liability, for, from its tracks, we had several times seen where it had slewed wildly at an angle, pivoting round on its iron tow-bar as, brakeless, it had sought to overrun the tractor.

The sleds with their teams of wagging, howling dogs slewed to either side of the trail and broadened their circle around the hole while Muktuk led his mare forward.

I got an up-close look at the Scarecrow as the van slewed into a bootlegger reverse.

Here she took to her sweeps, backing water and waiting for the master-wave: it came, and she shot in through the breaking water, on and on, and they thought she was through until at the very last she struck, ten yards from the shore, slewed round, and was thrown on to the beach, broadside on.

The traffic had begun to move again, there was a cream double-decker bus slewed across the road.