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Example sentences for "hurls"

Lexicographically close words:
hurle; hurled; hurlers; hurlie; hurling; hurly; hurlyburly; hurra; hurrah; hurrahed
  1. And he hurls himself into the mad throes of his insane passion.

  2. Furious voices are heard, and a savage and cruel mob calls him a poisoner and hurls itself upon him, beating and striking him.

  3. When thronging foemen menace Spain, She dares the deed and shares the danger; And should her lover press the plain, She hurls the spear, her love's avenger.

  4. As if suddenly invested with herculean strength, Maria hurls the ruffian from her, and lays him prostrate on the floor.

  5. He casts upon her a look of withering scorn, the past of that life so chequered flashes vividly through his thoughts, his hate deepens, he hurls her from him, invokes a curse upon her head, and shuts her from his sight.

  6. Of this pure genius there has been left only a lump of wan flesh, a sort of raving beast who grimaces and hurls himself at you with froth at his mouth!

  7. Mother who creates us, sick and wasted race that we are, who stifles the man in the child and hurls us nailless and toothless, stupid and tamed, upon the bedstead of a mistress and the nuptial bed!

  8. It is so powerful in the energy it constantly hurls forth as to entail many dangers in handling it.

  9. Because it becomes alike electrified as the sun, and the law of repulsion strikes it like the blow of a mammoth triphammer and hurls it in the opposite direction.

  10. He sends deadly diseases on beasts and on men; he causes the overflow of the Nile to be scant or over-violent, and he hurls clouds of sand in time of heat upon Egypt.

  11. After many years of quiet it begins all at once to smoke, roar, and tremble, and then it hurls out as much liquid fire as there is water in the Nile.

  12. He gathers a handful of mud from the street and hurls it in the direction of her voice.

  13. She rushes along a corridor and hurls herself out of a window.

  14. As his mysterious vessel sails away Senta rushes to a cliff, and crying out that her life will be the price of his release, hurls herself into the sea, vowing to be constant to him even in death.

  15. Learning from Lucy what she has done, he tramples the contract under foot, hurls an imprecation upon the house of Lammermoor, and bursts out of the room in a terrible rage.

  16. Das Todesurtheil sprich"), in which Eleazar welcomes death and hurls defiance at the Christians.

  17. She will not listen, and at last in a fit of wild rage hurls the ring he had given her at his feet.

  18. In rage she declares he shall never find it, and summons the help of Klingsor, who hurls the sacred lance at Parsifal.

  19. Then he has a chat with Twyning, then mops himself dry, and then hurls in again.

  20. The skies are jewelled all around, The ploughshare snaps in the iron ground, The Finn with face like paper And eyes like a lighted taper Hurls his rough rune At the wintry moon And stamps to mark the tune.

  21. David's clear eye measures the length; With hand thrust back, he cramps one knee, Poises a moment thoughtfully, And hurls with a long vengeful swing.

  22. Tell him there is a God who keeps the black man and the white, and hurls to earth the loftiest realm that breaks His just, eternal law!

  23. So fly his words, but not in words the foe Makes answer, but his javelin hurls with might.

  24. Each hurls a spear, then, hand to hand, they fight.

  25. Lo, here, Orsilochus, too faint with fear To meet fierce Remulus, a distant dart Hurls at his steed.

  26. This word of superhuman scorn Cambronne hurls not alone at Europe in the name of the Empire,--that would be little; he hurls it at the past in the name of the Revolution.

  27. He hurls himself against the doorway, and finds it hopeless.

  28. Then Odin hurls his javelin wide around, Slaying the wretched denizens of earth To gorge himself with plunder: blood doth cleave E’en to the robe of peace: where then repose Can find the weary wand’rer?

  29. It is a comfort to think so because, when one's vivacious disposition occasionally hurls one against an icy obstacle, it pains.

  30. Cabagboc catches up the fish on the end of his sword, and hurls the carcass into the middle of the ocean.

  31. He also grants Jack's third wish, that every time his step-mother hurls a bad word at him or about him, she shall give forth another noise not permitted in polite society.

  32. Whereat she dives into our belabored boxes and grabs those ached-over chocolates and hurls them in a pile.

  33. Tessie gives up in despair and hurls herself on me.

  34. You wife gets in with concentrated rage, she hurls herself into a corner, covers her face with her hood, crosses her arms under her pelisse, and says not a word.

  35. But she laughs in her night-cap when you have fallen asleep, and hurls imprecations upon your slumbering body.

  36. None but myself may drive the flaming car of day; not even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls the thunder bolts.

  37. A slighted passion brandishes the arms of retribution, and hurls back the weapon, and causes yourself to complain of that of which it complained so lately.

  38. Thus far, Thalia borne upon unequal wheels, [749] teaches where the foeman hurls from his flying steed.

  39. This feat accomplished, Juno sends Sleep to urge the Greeks to make the most of this respite, and, thus stimulated, they fight on, until Ajax hurls a rock which lays Hector low.

  40. In Gunther's place the invisible Siegfried hurls the same stone much farther than Brunhild, and seizing Gunther by his belt jumps with him to the spot where it alighted.

  41. Driven to bay and deprived of all other weapons, Turnus finally hurls a rock at Aeneas, who, dodging this missile, deals him a deadly wound.

  42. Mortally wounded, Siegfried turns, and, grasping his shield, hurls it at the traitor with such force that he dashes it to pieces.

  43. Pointing out their ravages, the Almighty explains that, had man not disobeyed, these despoilers would never have preyed upon the newly created world, where they are now to have full sway until the Son hurls them back into Hades.

  44. Virgil there directs Dante's attention toward a demon, who hurls a sinner headlong into the boiling tar, and, without watching to see what becomes of him, departs in quest of some other victim.

  45. At daybreak Jupiter sends Discord to waken the Greeks and, when they appear in battle array, hurls a thunder-bolt as a signal for the fight to begin.

  46. Veiling her dismay at this first defeat, Brunhild hurls the stone to a great distance and lands beside it with a flying leap.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.