sideswipe

1 We’re sideswiped by a gurney bearing an unconscious, emaciated young woman with a shaved head.

2 Both guileless and arch, the play celebrates its own cleverness, sideswiping conventional structures and themes.

3 The eastbound FedEx tractor-trailer sideswiped a disabled vehicle on a stretch of Interstate 90 in the Rochester, New York, area just after 8:30 a.m.

4 Jimmy Carr is the butt of a few deserved sideswipes before he appears, scattering those abusive wordplays that work best in small doses such as this.

5 After I got sideswiped into hosting her last time, I vowed not to answer her e-mails, which so far I’m holding to.

6 On top of that, monthly economic readings are likely to be sideswipe from months by a distortion to industrial and payroll stats from labor strikes at the big U.S. automakers.

7 a sideswipe by a truck

卡车的擦撞

8 The bus had sideswiped something, and everyone behind the driver, on the right side, was uninjured.

9 LACMA's Wednesday program only sideswiped the Monday Evening Concerts, but it usefully harked back to such overlooked aspects of the series as its investigation of little-known early music and its connection with film composers.

10 Last November, right on the eve of the annual Library Lions dinner, he was arrested in Harlem at 2 p.m. on a Sunday after he sideswiped a parked truck with a library-owned vehicle.

11 In the first hit-and-run collision, a bicyclist said a black Toyota sideswiped him around 10:30 p.m.

12 Channing Tatum and his President get sideswiped by Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy and their female army Women, that disadvantaged American majority, seized the means of consumption at the box office this weekend.

13 Drummer Mike McGuire says their bus was sideswiped by another vehicle then propelled through a massive fireball in the immediate aftermath of the explosion.

14 Just inches ahead of Fair Knightess was He Did, the horse famous for having sideswiped Sea- biscuit’s old stablemate Granville at the start of the 1936 Kentucky Derby, knocking his jockey off.

15 This weekend ushered in news that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had sideswiped a man’s truck while listening to music and gotten out of charges by being his lovable self.

16 On its own, this would have made good comedy, as there were also sideswipes at Bear Grylls' and Dan Snow's annoying presentational tics of adding drama to the tediously mundane.

17 Another cyclist said he was aggressively sideswiped by a black Toyota about 15 minutes later just up the road from the first collision, police said.

18 Gunning his way up a long hill, Ralph sideswiped a metal garbage can; empty, it fell racketing down the incline.

19 Early Tuesday, Bryan Howard, 41, crossed the center line of State Road 40 in his 2001 Ford Ranger and sideswiped a bus carrying 53 farmworkers, which then veered the bus of the two-lane road.

20 Jean and Stan first meet after he sideswipes a deer and falls off his bike.

1 旁敲侧击

insinuating insinuate beat around the bush

2 擦撞

fender-bender

3 横击

by-blow

4 擦过

brush grazer glance scrape sweep shave graze

5 侧击

flank sidewinder