sidestepped in English

verb

1

avoid (someone or something) by stepping sideways.

as she walked she sidestepped the many cracks in the pavement

verb

• avoid, evade, dodge, circumvent, skirt around, bypass, duck, pussyfoot around
• skirt, hedge, duck, evade, elude, dodge, put off, fudge, parry, circumvent

Use "sidestepped" in a sentence

1. She sidestepped him, her shoulder jutting out like she would ram him aside.

2. Malik attempted to speak with the agitated soldier, but the soldier sidestepped and fired into the policemen.

3. It cockily waited up for them, then deftly sidestepped as the three came near it once again.

4. During mining, the stress behaviors of workface are very obvious. Thin rock strata of roof fall by full thick, procreant cranny reach the earth's surface and have clearly sidestepped subsidence.

5. ‘‘For 11 long years, he has sidestepped, Crawfished, wheedled out of any agreements he had made not to develop weapons of mass destruction,’ he said.’ ‘If there were a shred of sense in this analogy, hunting would have been banned five years ago, whereas in fact he has ‘Crawfished…

6. ‘‘For 11 long years, he has sidestepped, Crawfished, wheedled out of any agreements he had made not to develop weapons of mass destruction,’ he said.’ ‘If there were a shred of sense in this analogy, hunting would have been banned five years ago, whereas in fact he has ‘Crawfished…