How to Use hurl in a Sentence

hurl

verb
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  • He hurled a chair at me.
  • Someone hurled a rock through the window.
  • It looked like she was going to hurl herself down the stairs.
  • The protesters hurled insults at us.
  • Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And hurl it through the stratosphere, The time will come for the mind of man To turn to the heavens for its meat And its wine.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
  • The force of the blast hurled pieces of glass and shrapnel that were embedded in Collins Rudolph’s face.
    — Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Wood — who hurled 10 strikeouts in the Cubs’ 5-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds — got his second home run in the game.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Young hurled up an off-balance one-hander that bounced off the rim as the horn sounded.
    — arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Members of a group called Blacks for Trump hurled racial slurs at Black sheriff’s deputies.
    — Sudhin Thanawala and Kate Brumback, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The team’s most demonstrative ultra group, the F Side, began to hurl flares onto the field in protest.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • As Duprey drew closer, the sergeant can be seen on video picking up the cooler and hurling it at Duprey.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Snow hurled sideways at us, my driver’s tie flapping in the squall, his bare forearms braced against the cold.
    — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
  • Eggs were also hurled at the two men, and Jenkins, 32, was eventually shot in the face by one of the deputies, the lawsuit states.
    — Nakylah Carter, ABC News, 28 June 2023
  • Carronades could take a run up and hurl wooden shot cases filled with 250 lead balls to smash through the sides of a wooden ship.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • At the end of the procession, the guizers hurl their flaming torches onto the longboat and set it ablaze.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The heated rhetoric hurled at defectors in the not-too-distant past was all but absent.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The bus was all blacked out, of course, but that didn’t stop people around me from rushing to the sidewalk to hurl their vitriol and flip their birds.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Sun is currently in active phase of the solar cycle and has been hurling solar flares for the past few days.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Moments later, the suspect can be seen hurling the flaming cans at a group of strangers on the platform.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But these small qualms still don't beat the benefit of having a camera on a 360-degree base, and one that can hurl treats at my pooches.
    — Haley Sprankle Gear Team, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The storms are caused by magnetic energy and electrons that are hurled into space by the sun.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The two go back and forth, hurling insults and curses until Redd goes back inside.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2023
  • While Sayaka spoke to the referee, Nakajima slid behind her, grabbed her opponent by the back of the knee, and hurled her to the ground.
    — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Every Black accuser said deputies had hurled racial slurs at them.
    — Nate Rosenfield Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, a mob of angry white people snarls, yells obscenities, and hurls glass bottles at them.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And then there were the allegations of racist and sexist abuse hurled at workers of color and women.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the opening sequence, the music is hurling you toward the betrayal.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The vehicle is still powerful enough to hurl itself to 60 mph in three seconds.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Rather, the impact will dig out a crater tens of yards (meters) in size and hurl some 2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of rocks and dirt into space.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 22 Sep. 2022

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