sideswipe
verb (used with object)
to scrape or hit with a sweeping stroke along the side.
have sideswiped
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present perfectof sideswipe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The last stranger Adriene Mishler hugged before the pandemic was a woman who may or may not have sideswiped her car.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
But investigators were leaning toward the theory that Diana and Dodi's car may have sideswiped a smaller, slow-moving vehicle before careening out of control.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had Glutts kept on as he was running the Blue Moon would have sideswiped the Yellow Streak, and there would undoubtedly have been a serious accident.
From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer
