The young men grin and wink as that staggering portent lurches past: I do not smile; my heart is too sad for even a show of sadness.
He lurches through the door and down a corridor, and presently returns, followed by JONES, who is advanced in liquor.
He gives a little snarling laugh and lurches to the door.
Her lurches had an appalling helplessness: she pitched as if taking a header into a void, and seemed to find a wall to hit every time.
There was no wind, not a breath, except the faint currents created by the lurches of the ship.
After several ineffectual efforts, made during the lurchesof the ship, and at the imminent risk of swamping the boat, I was finally disengaged from my perilous situation and taken on board--for the body proved to be my own.
The corpse, left to itself, was washed into the larboard scuppers, where it still lay at the time of which I speak, floundering about with the furious lurches of the brig.
Lurches heavily against the table, and subsides into a chair.
The band played at his end of the deck, and owing to the fingers of the players being frozen, and to the sudden lurches of the ship, the harmony was sometimes destroyed.
Her eyes are closed, her hat on one ear, and she is wrapped like a mummy 18 How the ship rolls and lurches 22 Ah, confidences beside a life-boat on the upper deck!
How the ship rolls and lurches the moment that one rises from the leather couch!
This was by a huge watch-dog, within the reach of whose chain one of the laird's lee lurches had brought him.
Our voyage was tempestuous; I frequently felt as if the ship, in her lurches into the trough of the sea, would never reascend, but would go down head foremost to the bottom of the Atlantic.
After several ineffectual efforts, made during the lurches of the ship, and at the imminent risk of swamping the boat I was finally disengaged from my perilous situation and taken on board--for the body proved to be my own.
The navvy, staggering forward, cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding on the farther side under the railway bridge bloom appears, flushed, panting, cramming bread and chocolate into a sidepocket.
Wait," he said; and the four of them clung to the hand-rails, swaying and bending to the bounding lurches of the flying car.
Callahan's tank has been bone dry for twenty minutes, and he is watching the glass water-gage where the water shows now only when the engine lurches heavily to the left.
But now the brig, the rudder of which had been wrenched out of her on the Sands, has no boat to help her steer, andlurches about in all directions.
It lurches against a rock and Lillinonah is thrown out.
His breath grows short, his gaze is fixed, mechanically he rises, steps to the brink, and lurches forward into the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lurches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
