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Example sentences for "hurtled"

Lexicographically close words:
hurtful; hurtfull; hurtfulness; hurting; hurtle; hurtles; hurtling; hurts; hus; husband
  1. While the Chicago hurtled through space at full power, Cleveland and the ranking officers of the vessel grouped themselves about the salvaged wreckage.

  2. Almost simultaneously another big projectile hurtled up from the direction of Fort Obelisk, and burst among our escort of Uhlans with a deluge of livid flame and thick volumes of greenish brown smoke.

  3. Then they rode apart to a fair distance, and putting spurs to their horses hurtled together with headlong speed.

  4. All that night she hurtled through the dark beneath the clouds, or rose to race through the moonlit void beneath the glory of Barsoom's two satellites.

  5. Sometimes she lay upon one side or the other, or again she hurtled along keel up, or rolled over and over, or stood upon her nose or her tail at the caprice of the great force that carried her along.

  6. They had been crushed, perhaps by falling timber, perhaps by the bier of Jlomec as it hurtled over the side.

  7. The old man was fumbling clumsily for his whip-sword when B'ronth hurtled at them.

  8. So they hurtled at even greater speed toward the surface of Titan below.

  9. And the space ship hurtled on, to leave the point of coming impact far beyond the horizon.

  10. He did not wish to enter the church unless properly clothed, so he sat down again, his brain reeling with the crowd of thoughts that hurtled through it, and his ears filled with the music of the mission bell.

  11. Just then I heard another noise, and a large stone hurtled past me, and crashed into a patch of scrub just below.

  12. Tim's arm jerked upward and a small, black object hurtled down from the plane.

  13. The mail plane hurtled through the night at one hundred thirty miles an hour, its maximum speed, and Tim pushed it every mile of the way.

  14. The plane hurtled earthward in a power dive that made the fuselage quiver and it was not until they were under the five hundred foot level that Tim brought the nose up and checked their mad descent.

  15. One of them had hurtled down to crush the roof of the house nearest the fire.

  16. Out of the smoke hurtled a great piece of steel.

  17. Suddenly a rifle cracked from a hut in front, and the bullet pierced the rim of his hat, whistling shrilly as it hurtled by his ear.

  18. As he spoke, all the Spanish forts fired, and though none of the missiles actually hit the New York, they hurtled unpleasantly close overhead.

  19. A confusion of Spanish and English hurtled on Jane's uncomprehending ear; some one climbing the step cried, "Ave Maria!

  20. A sudden horror of great rolling eyes and rending horns and crazy hoofs hurtled through the girl's dizzy brain.

  21. Gritting her teeth, she hurtled back to the dress.

  22. A red splinter of car hurtled around the corner and squealed to the curb.

  23. It was incomprehensible that he strapped himself in and hurtled through the streets.

  24. Pollony was beginning to think again of a swiftly accelerating car, of her body encased beside that of Latsker Smith and hurtled through dusty streets.

  25. He hurtled headlong, dashing toward the distant ridge, the peninsula jutting out into the desert.

  26. Hair aflaunt, shirt-tail whipping in the breeze, bare feet paddling in the dust of the trail, naked legs crossing each other like giant scissors in frenzied effort, he hurtled forward exactly one leap behind his intended victim.

  27. Raging, vindictive, Pat hurtled after him, and snapped again and again, drawing hot blood pungent of taste and smell, and then he leaped aside.

  28. Grimly determining to hold to this relief, he dashed ahead, following the guidance of his master in yet another direction, hurtled away before the second man could mount again.

  29. Thereupon each knight immediately leaped his horse away from where it stood and hurtled the one against the other like a whirlwind with a great thunder of galloping hoofs.

  30. As he hurtled through the air, with giant limbs revolving, the lad's heart was in his mouth; for surely no man ever yet had such a fall and came scathless out of it.

  31. Two or three shots hurtled past a few feet over the decks, but then crash came one right amidships, tearing in at one side and passing clean through the other, as we rounded a sand-bank and became nearly broadside on to the lorcha.

  32. Our little army--with about a fourth of its number gone--had only to guard the ditch and see that none of the Quabos caught the edges as they hurtled out of their passage.

  33. The result was that as soon as they hurried out of the ship, away from the influence of our own gravity pads, they hurtled into the air in all directions.

  34. Then, resolutely, Sarka turned his back on the conflict between the Martians and the people of Earth, and hurtled across the devastated roof of the world toward that area which was feeling the destructive force of the vandal cube-army.

  35. It was a morning when the chill gusting of the mistral wind hurtled and raved about St. Andre.

  36. It was in waiting behind us, and the first crash as the shells hurtled over our heads made Hugh and I feel very strange in the pits of our stomachs--something like incipient sea-sickness.

  37. The directors who had been hurtled to the floor stood up with expressions of comical surprise on their features.

  38. Then the door flew in with a splintering shriek under the charge of the human battering ram, and across it hurtled the other two detectives in a cloud of ancient dust.

  39. The three men on the control deck fell silent as the ship hurtled through space.

  40. Beppo hurtled against the logs with a sickening crash, and a thousand sparks leapt up and vanished in the cavern of the chimney.

  41. I was assuring myself of this when in the dark I stumbled, and striking my legs against a stair I hurtled forward.

  42. The next second, hopped and hurtled across the beach toward the girls, a group of hair-covered, shaggy creatures which were neither apes nor men.

  43. All at once he started so violently that he almost hurtled from the tree.

  44. The sparks winked out and the ship hurtled on through a darkness that seemed to take form before them.

  45. They hurtled through the murky light like shooting stars.

  46. From time to time, as you hurtled through the star spaces, I picked up scraps of conversation with my instruments.

  47. It must have stood nearly fifty feet high, and came rushing at them on a score of legs, with dozens of eyes flashing green as it hurtled forward.

  48. I did not relinquish my grasp upon him, however, for I knew that a single shriek from those lips as he hurtled to his death in the silent waters of the sea would bring his comrades from above to avenge him.

  49. What assurance that I might not as well be hurtled to some far-distant star of another solar system, as to Mars?

  50. Meta hurtled forward like an uncoiled spring and the crossbows twanged.

  51. The midstreet sidewalk puzzled Jason until Grif blasted something that hurtled out of a ruined building towards them.

  52. Immediately after we heard the beat of quick panting breaths and two flying figures hurtled past us into the night!

  53. And while our attention was thus distracted, a figure hurtled from between the bushes and the hedge and plunged headlong through the latter and on across Captain Trout's back yard, a rubber coat flapping about its ankles as it ran.


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