STEER in a Sentence
Learn STEER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
87 example sentences for STEER, such as:
1. He was steering with only one hand.
2. The ship steered for the open seas.
3. We steered a correct defence policy.
4. Her speech steered clear of controversial issues.
5. Hither we steer wearily, and stand in to the little town.
2. The ship steered for the open seas.
3. We steered a correct defence policy.
4. Her speech steered clear of controversial issues.
5. Hither we steer wearily, and stand in to the little town.
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Meanings and Examples of STEER
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steer
v. direct (oneself) somewhere
v. be a guiding or motivating force or drive
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1 His side-fins only serve to steer by.
2 But, spite of all this, I could see no compass before me to steer by; though it seemed but a minute since I had been watching the card, by the steady binnacle lamp illuminating it.
3 Besides, the old man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors, without some shudderings and evil portents.
4 He promised to rope a steer for me before sundown next day.
5 His spine and shoulder-blades stood out like the bones under the hide of a dead steer left in the fields.
6 'Maybe you lose a steer and learn not to make somethings with your eyes at married men,' Mrs. Shimerda told her hectoringly.
7 He was a "floorsman" at Jones's, and a wounded steer had broken loose and mashed him against a pillar.
8 Now and then, when the bosses were not looking, you would see them plunging their feet and ankles into the steaming hot carcass of the steer, or darting across the room to the hot-water jets.
9 A time of peril on the killing beds was when a steer broke loose.
10 It was late in the afternoon when they got back, and they dressed out the remainder of the steer, and a couple of others that had been killed, and then knocked off for the day.
11 Through chequered fortunes, through many perilous ways, we steer for Latium, where destiny points us a quiet home.
12 Hither I steer; and it welcomes my weary crew to the quiet shelter of a safe haven.
13 Hither we steer wearily, and stand in to the little town.
14 But now for broad Italy hath Apollo of Grynos bidden me steer, for Italy the oracles of Lycia.
15 And he: 'Thy melancholy phantom, thine, O my father, came before me often and often, and drove me to steer to these portals.'
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Try to steer the light boat to the big ship so that we can be picked up.
2 I'm trying to lose weight so I have to steer clear of fattening foods.
3 It will be difficult to steer a middle course between the competing claims of the two sides in the conflict.
4 When I was a kid, about six or seven, she would often let me steer the car along our driveway.
5 He will steer a middle course between pacifism and revolution.
6 There are lots of things UN and US have to do, in order to steer Iraq back to sovereignty.
7 Her speech steered clear of controversial issues.
8 The ship steered for the open seas.
9 We steered a correct defence policy.
10 With consummate skill, she steered the conversation away from any embarrassing subjects.
11 The ship passed Land's End, then steered towards southern Ireland.
12 He was steering with only one hand.
13 The skill is in steering a middle course between the two extremes.
14 Remember, when driving a car, the golden rule is never to take both hands off the steering wheel.
15 The object of invention is to provide a method for limiting the maximum pressure of a power-assisted steering system.