27 examples of sidestepped in sentences

She turned now, sidestepping within those ten inches.

She sidestepped them, hurrying down a wind-swept brick walk and out a picket gate that did not swing entirely after.

"Time!" As Treadwell leaped forward, both fists in battery, Dave took a swift, nimble sidestep.

Dave had to sidestep to his own right, out of range of Treadwell, to save himself.

19 "Big Landis lost his nerve and sidestepped at the last minute, and then the whole gang faded.

It shows me where I stand in your eyesand nothing between the devil and the moon shall make me sidestep!" They remained silent, staring at each other.

Now, you're the sort of a man that don't sidestep nobody.

He sidestepped quickly, however, and avoided the knife.

Cautiously, prepared for a lunge or a sidestep, Kazan advanced a little.

All his life he had sidestepped troubleand here it was staring him in the face.

He sidestepped past the girl.

Lanyard sidestepped, nipped a wrist, twitched it smartly up between the man's shoulder-blades (with a wrench that won a grunt of agony), caught the other arm from behind by the hollow of its elbow, and held his victim helplessthough ill-advised enough to continue to hiss and spit and squirm and kick.

I thought we were going to take a wedding tour to Asbury Park or some of the other watering places, but what does Wilbur do but sidestep the ferry proposition and we go prancing up to a dock where a boat about nine miles big was hitched and before I had time to give the office to the cop on the beat Wilbur rushes me up the plank and into the outfit.

And when with a genial hand he sloshed me on the back before I could sidestep, it was as if I had been kicked by a mule.

art, artifice; device, machination; plot &c (plan) 626; maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery &c (deception) 545; ruse, ruse de guerre

dodge, sidestep, bob and weave.

No matter whence you came, from a palace or a ditch, You're a man, man, man, if you square yourself to life; And no matter what they say, hermit-poor or Midas-rich, You are nothing but a husk if you sidestep strife.

She returned to the fool story that Holman had told, and I couldn't sidestep her questions.

But the opposition guessed the direction of our sidestep.

Sometimes a sidestep made his blows miss by the slightest fraction of an inch.

They had difficulty in riding the trail side by side, for though the roan was somewhat rested by the delay at Eldara it was impossible to keep him up with Bard's prancing piebald, which sidestepped at every shadow.

Alcatraz barely escaped the danger with a sidestep light as a dancer's and shortened his gallop.

Did you see him sidestep that?" demanded the aggrieved Bickford, forgetting, in his pique, his stricken father.

His senior partner glanced at him sharply, while Miss Wiggin hastily sidestepped into the corridor.

She's got to have the road and plenty room to sidestep.

27 examples of  sidestepped  in sentences