Dictionary entry
Sidestep
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪdstɛp/
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌɪdstɛp/
Myanmar Meaning
ဘေးသို့သွားသည့် လှေခါးထစ် ၊ ခြေလှမ်း။ ဘေးသို့ခြေလှမ်း၍ ရှောင်ရှားလိုက်သည်။ ရှောင်ရှားသည်။
Definition
sidestep /'saÇdstep/ n (ေရွာင္တိမ္းရန္)ေဘးသို႔ေျခလွမ္း။ v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ေရွာင္တိမ္းရန္ ေဘးသို႔ေျခလွမ္းသည္။ တစ္ကြက္နင္း၍ ေရွာင္သည္။ sidestep a tackle (eg in football). ၂။ လီွးလႊဲ ေျဖသည္။ ဆင္ေဝွ႔ရန္ေရွာင္လုပ္သည္။ ထမင္းရည္ပူလာ လွ်ာလႊဲ လုပ္သည္။ He sidestepped the issue by saying it was not his responsibility.
Examples
- ‘She sidesteps away as the two crash into each other.’
- ‘She screeched to a halt so abruptly that he nearly crashed into her
- settling for merely sidestepping out of the way instead.’
- ‘‘I'd rather walk
- ’ I responded curtly
- sidestepping him and hurrying for the door.’
- ‘I tried to bolt
- sidestepping Maxim's frail attempts to stop me and opening the lock as I had the last time.’
- ‘He began walking towards me again and this time I sidestepped him entirely.’
- ‘Effortlessly sidestepping a wayward javelin
- the Grand Master leapt into the fray
- landing with such force that several Serpent-Men were sent sprawling backwards.’
- ‘I run down Courtenay Place
- sidestepping someone as I swerve at speed onto Taranaki Street
- passing the doctor's and the florist and leaping across the road beside the bookstore.’
- ‘There she was
- walking towards me down the hall
- taking the effort to sidestep a few people she would usually probably have pushed between the middle of
- and slowing her steps as she approached me
- making me do the same.’
- ‘Buttons on the cane's handle vibrate gently to warn a user to dodge low ceilings and sidestep objects blocking their path.’
- ‘‘Apparently not
- ’ he said
- sidestepping her and walking past her.’
- ‘Foreign arrivals last summer were obliged to duck under scaffolding and sidestep earsplitting riveters and sandblasters in order to reach a makeshift passport control desk.’
- ‘Brunton calmly sidestepped out the way
- and lifted up his hand
- palm out.’
- ‘Pedestrians are required to be agile and be able to sidestep all obstacles that they will encounter whilst walking.’
- ‘Quickly
- he sidesteps the form and continues on another few steps before he finds himself inexplicably stopped and staring up in to the rain.’
- ‘He remains one of the league's top ballcarriers
- a player who can beat defenders by lowering his shoulder or sidestepping them.’
- ‘Philip lunged once more and Caleb merely sidestepped his advance
- sustaining a minor hit but nothing like he first endured.’
- ‘Too crabby and distracted to pay attention to where he's walking
- Greg barely manages to sidestep a pair of nurses wheeling a gurney down the hall.’
- ‘He waved his hand impatiently as he quickly sidestepped the waterfall and walked briskly down the shaded stone path.’
- ‘A clot of the former were self-consciously sipping absinthe at the bar on the ground floor
- so I sidestepped them and ascended the short flight of steps to the dining room above.’
- ‘Ilivdorl charged ahead
- but Valdaer
- a master of combat
- sidestepped the attack
- though he winced as he stepped on his injured leg.’