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Example sentences for "hurl"

Lexicographically close words:
hurdle; hurdles; hurdling; hurdy; hure; hurle; hurled; hurlers; hurlie; hurling
  1. He could ride a black tiger and hurl pearls which burst like bombshells.

  2. That's a nice useful phrase to hurl about.

  3. Dared to hurl his love and protestations back into his teeth.

  4. Then the English he hated would not be able to hurl that detestable word "nigger" at him.

  5. Zwingle's eyes; and the reformer hoped that Europe, awakening at length from its long slumber, would be the hand of God to hurl him from his throne.

  6. Now make but the motions, and I will hurl both spear and stone.

  7. But when the treacherous knight learned that she was Bradamant, between whose house and his there was a deadly feud, he planned to slay her, and soon, by his treachery, managed to hurl her down a precipice.

  8. In these my babes shalt thou thine image see, And, still tremendous, hurl thy rage on me?

  9. In his right hand was the thunderbolt, and near at hand the place from which to hurl it.

  10. Hill continued to hurl them in, standing, magnificent fighter!

  11. Cousin," said the King, "take up your stone again and hurl it against the other door as you did at this.

  12. Then perceiving four men in the darkness, they set to work to hurl at them everything they had at hand, in the meantime making a frightful noise with blows from the flat of their swords, which, however, struck nothing but the wall.

  13. Tell me thy name, and what thou art about here, and I will consider whether to make use of thee or hurl thee over the cliffs.

  14. But their present quiet was only like that of a summer sea, which would bear unharmed the slightest shallop that ever maiden put from shore, but when battling tempests rise can hurl whole navies into wreck.

  15. They clamored for the Senate to declare instant war against Carthage, to call out the legions, to make ready the ships, to embark an expedition in the port of Ostia, and to hurl Rome against the camp of Hannibal.

  16. Moreover the number of defenders was insufficient to garrison the extensive precincts of Saguntum, while the besieger had at his disposal an immense armed multitude which could hurl itself against several places at once.

  17. I do not forget that you were the first who taught me to hurl a dart.

  18. The walking-towers, light, with walls of interlaced osiers, trundled upon massive disks crowned by the shields of the besiegers who concealed themselves behind them to hurl their missiles.

  19. I hurl myself impetuously through forests of lances; feathered shafts hiss around me like a trailing mantle of invisible birds; I scorn the phalarics with their streams of fire--but some day I shall die; my dreams foretell it.

  20. The young men dragged to the walls enormous stones to hurl down upon the besiegers, and they laughed on being assisted by the women who were eager to take part in the combat.

  21. On the walls the bowmen drew their bows, and the boys piled up stones to hurl with their slings.

  22. Two vast bodies of furious foes confronted each other like wrestlers, who stretch their sinewy arms to grasp and hurl their opponents to the ground.

  23. His body was granted a week's rest, but during this horrible week he did not cease to upbraid himself as a traitor, and execrate the fate which had used him a second time to hurl a friend and benefactor into ruin.

  24. And throngs began to hurl their caps in the air, while running through the camp in search of Zagloba.

  25. Did no one hurl treason in the eyes of those scoundrels?

  26. For him, for his honesty I was ready to hurl myself headlong from the tower of Kyedani.

  27. So what does he dew, like a blamed fool, but jest off with his boot and hurl it, 'lowin' he could kill a rattler that way?

  28. Curoi's hurl jerked the ball upward; then Fergus gave it the double stroke first with the handle and then with the weighted end of the hurl and drove it, beautifully as a flying bird, between the goal-marks that Mananaun had set up.

  29. Let us form a sacred compact: If thou speakest me a falsehood, I will hurl thee to Manala, Let the nether fires consume thee, That thine evil signs may perish.

  30. To-morrow," he cried, "I will hurl a couple of columns at their heads.

  31. I have bowed my rebellious subjects, his seat is but a frail one; for I will march on Rome, and hurl him from his chair, and send him forth to tread the sands of Palestine.

  32. But if you put them together in one loose, vague, general imputation of avarice, extortion and injustice, and hurl the same at a person unable to make distinctions, the shock is apt to disconcert him for a moment.

  33. It's hideous to see him hurl himself at an omelette.

  34. I am a social warrior; the moment I scent domestic carnage I hurl myself into the melee and plant my flag.

  35. This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.

  36. If the time comes when there's nothing to eat, we would set Paris on fire and hurl ourselves every man upon the Germans, and fight our way through.

  37. I looked round for still one more thing to hurl into the breach.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bowl; cast; catapult; chuck; chunk; clap; curve; dart; dash; deliver; erupt; fire; fling; flip; fork; heave; hurl; hurtle; jerk; lance; lateral; launch; pass; peg; pelt; pitch; plank; plop; plump; plunk; precipitate; project; put; send; serve; service; shoot; shy; sinker; slap; sling; snap; throw; thrust; tilt; toss