What's the difference between burling and hurling?
Burling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burl
Example Sentences:
(1) Her voice, never her strong point, seemed to have gained in power, and she matched Paul Newman and Burl Ives blow for blow.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
(4) Of course, injuries to key players like Carlos Bocanegra, Bobby Burling and Marvin Chavez, handicapped Chivas USA, but Cabrera’s decision to give his older players - Mauro Rosales, Tony Lochhead and Oswaldo Minda – a rest after a taxing stretch of road games backfired, with his side short of structure.
(5) Extending over 250 hectares (617 acres), the park revolves around the Rinconada hippodrome, a horse racetrack built in the 50s by Californian architect Arthur Froehlich that, with the surrounding gardens designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle-Marx, was once emblematic of the oil-rich nation's wealth.
(6) I don’t think she demonstrated it in the race against [Barack] Obama in 2008,” Burling said, adding that Sanders would contrast with Clinton because “he can speak with unfettered passion”.
(7) The warden of Angola prison, Burl Cain, has spoken out in forthright terms against a system that mandates punishment without any chance of rehabilitation.
(8) This interesting feature is conserved in the crystal structures of other thiazole nucleosides [Burling & Goldstein (1992).
(9) So I was really happy when Carlos Burle went and rode another big wave there this October; he's saying it was bigger than mine, more than 100ft.
(10) I don’t think you’ll find the socialist wing of the Democratic Party is that big, contrary to what Republicans might think.” Peter Burling, a former New Hampshire state senator, longtime Democratic party leader and a Clinton supporter, said Sanders might have an advantage over her in the amount of passion he can deliver.
(11) The Earth Island Institute is advising the law firm Covington & Burling, which filed the latest lawsuit in San Francisco on behalf of the plaintiffs.
(12) They were all so desperate to see if they could talk to the great man," said resident Peter Burling, who lived a few doors down from Salinger for 44 years.
(13) The fittings are finished in “maple burl gloss” and “antique bronze”.
(14) "You've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night," says Warden Burl Cain, a committed evangelist who believes that the rehabilitation of convicts is only possible through Christian redemption.
(15) It evokes Roberto Burle Marx's wave-patterned promenade along Copacabana beach: a rigid, northern European version.
(16) The archaeologist Aubrey Burl, an authority on prehistoric stone circles, said: “There could be something in it.
Hurling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurl
(n.) The act of throwing with force.
(n.) A kind of game at ball, formerly played.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
(2) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(3) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(4) Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas, officers said.
(5) That would be something the newspapers, if they did their job, would be shouting at her today, instead of hurling insults at Jeremy Corbyn.
(6) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(7) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(8) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
(9) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
(10) MEPs boo as Nigel Farage hurls insults in the European parliament Read more Vicky Ford, also a Conservative MEP, ticks the Farageian box of having “worked in business”.
(11) The fans, many of whom had been drinking heavily for much of the day, responded by hurling bottles at the police as they marched towards them.
(12) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
(13) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(14) The pipe bomb device was hurled at Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers travelling in an armoured vehicle in the Creggan area of the city.
(15) And then, mercifully, I discovered How to Be a Woman, a blistering war-cry of a book urging girls to hurl celery into the bin, "give up on the idea of being fabulous" and instead revel in our glorious imperfections.
(16) A small but vocal group of hostile Ulster loyalist demonstrators were standing outside, blocking the station's heavily fortified gates, preparing to hurl abuse when he emerged.
(17) It was mostly just unplanned sprinting around the city, with bins knocked over and traffic cones hurled at traffic.
(18) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(19) I never dreamed that it would end in the way it did.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Palestinian boy hurls stones at Israeli police during the second day of clashes in Shu’afat last year, after the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir.
(20) Rioters are seen smashing up parts of the building to create missiles to hurl at police officers guarding a sectarian boundary close to the Catholic Short Strand area.