sheer away
sheer off

His mind sheered away from any thoughts of what it really might he.

He reached for it, and the little investigator sheered away.

Her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on.

His aching brain sheered away from it; he found thinking at all was strangely difficult.

Then metal sheered away and crashed to the floor.

The rest of the seal pack sheered away from the skiff.

Then, with a weak flick of its tail, it sheered away from him.

Mr England said the wall had sheered away next to a table and chairs.

He sheered away and thrust upward, out of the lair again.

Dead, he replied, his mind sheering away from the image of Schiller pinned to the floor.

He spun the wheel and sheered away from her.

He missed her badly and his mind still sheered away from the thought of her.

The shears sheered away from it, perhaps having had prior experience with this tactic.

She flashed the lights at a taxi that was on a collision course and he sheered away.

She sheered away, her own drives a yellow coma.

Half of the Reuel-thing's face sheered away like pudding.

She knew that the heaviest of the circling bombers sheered away and crashed.

She is altering course, sheering away from us.

Sam started swimming again, but he sheered away from Ed Broom.

The torso was sheered away below the waist.

The bird, with a second scream, sheered away.

The speed-boat sheered away and went to intercept a little rowing-boat.

Somehow her mind sheered away as if at the brink of the Gap Chasm.

Off on Bolan's three o'clock, the buttes sheered away to the desert floor.

The German saw barrage balloons coming up and he sheered away, back towards the estuary.

Then the red sheered off and came around for another try.

Then I sheered off to the right and took up my position there.

Where's the sense in that, to be after coming so far and sheering off at the very end?

After the second shot from the west side Jean sheered off to the right.

Sheer off or we shall be forced to sink you!

And then, at the last moment, the other ships sheered off.

The explosion had also sheered off one of his legs.

If you had any sense you'd have sheered off, left her alone to carry on to England.

The ledge went out into space and then sheered off.

The wings were gone, probably sheered off in the crash.

After it was caught in the light, the boat sheered off and vanished.

“The base of the tree looked like it had been sheered off.

The left wing of the plane was apparently sheered off as it came down.

Eventually they were sheered off, and the left over stubs ground out.

The motorcycle kept right behind us for another dozen blocks, then sheered off.

One wing struck the bus and half of it was sheered off.

I sheered off what seemed to be an unexpectedly difficult subject for her, and we went walking down the garden in the evening light.

Like his thoughts, it sheered off from the target unless really pressed.

The launch sheered off and went upon her way.

He sheered off to the right, heard the hissing of the others' skis behind him.

Bink sheered off, but the monster was before him again.

And what should you say,' said the Captain - 'not committing yourself - about his time of sheering off?

He sheered off from us when the weather was foul, and we have no need of him now that the sun is shining.

These would be at the points where the cliff must be sheered off.