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A 2007 Nissan Sentra was traveling west on W.Va. 9 and a 2009 Toyota Yaris traveling eastbound struck it in what police described as a sideswipe manner, causing the Toyota to run over an embankment, rolling onto its side against a tree.

The Journal 2009

If you're going to have your picture in GQ, you're going to invite a certain amount of comment, she continued, grinding any notion of sisterhood under her booted-heel to make a sideswipe at her fellow panellist, Tory backbencher Louise Mensch.

Committee's solution to attacks on female politicians: 'just get on with it' 2012

There was a sideswipe when cars that derailed struck cars on the adjacent track, he said.

Freight train derails near Tacoma 2011

As Mr. Casey maneuvered the large vehicle through traffic, he said he wouldn't mind having an altercation with another driver: "It would be cool to have a taxi sideswipe us and be at this intersection and have an argument."

Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town Marshall Heyman 2011

However, you stray off the reservation by taking a sideswipe at the black-footed ferret, greater sage-grouse, orchids and wild mustangs, not to mention the archeological and paleontological professions.

The Main Engineering Problems Used to Be Engineering 2011

Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency.

Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7) The Reliable Source 2010

But beyond another sideswipe at employment rights this autumn, there was little new from the Treasury.

Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton 2011

Bank of France governor Christian Noyer launched an attack on ratings companies Thursday that included a sideswipe at the U.K., continuing the war of words that has raged since last week's U.K. veto of a new European treaty.

France's Triple-A War of Words Richard Barley 2011

The fifth edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature defined it as "often containing not only fictional but historical people and/or events," adding that "in serious work there is a real attempt at accuracy and credibility" a sideswipe perhaps at bodice- rippers.

Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011

But the recent sideswipe by David Cameron at superinjunctions is pointless.

It should be curtains for celebrities with a bedroom secret 2011