What's the difference between flung and hurl?

Flung


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Fling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
  • (3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
  • (4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
  • (5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
  • (6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
  • (7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
  • (8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
  • (9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
  • (10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
  • (11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
  • (12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
  • (13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
  • (14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
  • (15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
  • (16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
  • (17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
  • (18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
  • (19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
  • (20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.

Hurl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
  • (v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
  • (v. t.) To twist or turn.
  • (v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
  • (v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
  • (n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
  • (n.) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
  • (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

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.

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