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Example sentences for "lurched"

Lexicographically close words:
lupi; lupine; lupines; lupins; lurch; lurcher; lurchers; lurches; lurching; lure
  1. In less than a minute the chaise lurched forward, a whip cracked, and they took the road again.

  2. At last the carriage swerved sharply to one side, and jolted over a stone; and the man lurched nearer to her, and--and moaned!

  3. The fellow, who had been gathering up his reins, lurched round suddenly and gazed in through the glass front.

  4. At the next sharp bend in the road he lurched suddenly, swayed for a moment, and toppled to earth with a thud.

  5. The huge maroon lurched from behind his master's chair, where he had lain half-drunken.

  6. He laughed boisterously and drunkenly as he spoke and lurched backward over the sands.

  7. Suddenly a huge, ill-defined shape lurched past the battleplane, passing less than two hundred feet underneath.

  8. His knees gave way under him as he lurched towards the lad.

  9. Whipping out my knife, I cut through the thongs by which the sack was tied; it lurched over, letting fall a dozen ounces or so of gold dust.

  10. Granger himself was quite sober, having only pretended to drink; if he sat a trifle huddled on his box and lurched unsteadily, it was only that he might keep his companions unsuspicious.

  11. Suddenly the car slipped on the greasy road, staggered, and lurched over into the morass, hurling us violently upon our sides.

  12. Even with her supporting arm, he lurched and stumbled through the tangled undergrowth.

  13. While the man who carried her lurched forward, stumbling now and then over the uneven ground, each step causing his victim fresh agony, Dorothy's conviction of hopelessness assailed and overwhelmed the last shreds of her fighting spirit.

  14. Then he, too, lurched forward and rolled over.

  15. He lurched to the earth, face downward, while his yet unseen assailant fell heavily upon him.

  16. Both boys lurched heavily backward, striking the water and causing the port boat to heel more than it had done.

  17. Yet when he lurched on to the veranda she smiled lovingly up into his face and gave no sign that she had any knowledge of his state.

  18. The rancher had lurched on to his feet and his fist came down with a crash upon the corner of the table.

  19. In an instant John was on his feet and lurched across the table.

  20. He lurched heavily as he sought to drag his feet from the viscid muck.

  21. Then he lurched heavily back into his chair again.

  22. The movements of men about him as they hunted for missing masts and oars roused him at length to an oath at a seaman who lurched against him.

  23. She lurched and rocked viciously, constraining them to cling to the sides of the frail body.

  24. Lionel lurched in, closed the door, and shot home one of its bolts.

  25. He turned, and lurched into the dining-room upon legs that trembled.

  26. The buccaroo lurched out and away to the bunk-house, where new bellowing was set up.

  27. Behind him lurched Half-past Full, and stumbled into the room.

  28. The City of Panama lurched back and forth like a rocking-horse.

  29. The board lurched sidewise, spurn around, and the swell it was riding broke over him with a force that knocked him from his position.

  30. Over the rough field the automobile lurched and careened imperiling the safety of its occupants and threatening momentarily to upset and wreck the car.

  31. Never had those girls run and stumbled and lurched along as they did that afternoon.

  32. As they were passing Brodsky lurched against the boss.

  33. He lurched to his feet, struggling with a bearded giant that held him from his desire--to drink until he could drink no more--to die drinking the water they had taken from him even as they gave it.

  34. Collie threw up his arms and lurched forward.

  35. Even in that space of agony two other incidents flashed through my memory, and I understood my fear during the dark voyage, and on the moonlit night when the cars lurched across the bridge.

  36. As it was, he turned and ironically saluted the sullenly wrathful crowd as the light wagon lurched away across the prairie.

  37. I was grateful, but I did not answer him, for just then a rattle of wheels broke through the roar of the conflagration, and two jolting wagons lurched into the glare.

  38. The fugitive had just reached the timber when a light wagon lurched out from it, and I yelled to the man who drove it to hold clear of my path.

  39. The craft twisted upon her heel, the sail swung aloft, and then, while the sheet rasped through my fingers, chafing the skin from them, there was a heavy crash as the boom lurched over.

  40. As I hurried away a tented wagon lurched into the station, and when I last saw Redmond's daughter she stood near the lonely end of the platform talking earnestly with the traveling photographer.

  41. The light wagon lurched giddily, and the next moment it swept like a toboggan down the declivity.

  42. In the meanwhile the second engineer was leaning out from a slippery platform that swung and slanted as the Adelaide lurched over the long gray seas, listening to the dull pounding of the high-pressure engine.

  43. Then by degrees the long roll of the Pacific heaved itself up into steep, blue-sided seas with tops of incandescent whiteness, and as she lurched over them the spray whirled in filmy clouds from her plunging bows.

  44. That heaped thing by the wheel was dad, for I seen the whites of his eyes as the ship lurched him.

  45. He lurched after his friend, and dropped into the chair where he was pushed, sliding his arms out on the table before him and dropping his head quickly to hide his emotion.

  46. One of them broke over the bluff of the bow, carrying the bulwarks away, and at the same time the cable chain was lurched over the side.

  47. The captain called out to the men on the foreyard to "hold on for God's sake," as the vessel lurched over so far that the man on the lee yardarm said that he felt his foot touch the water.

  48. Before Wallace could reach her she lurched heavily forward and fell, striking her face against the edge of the counter.


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