(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.
Hurler
Definition:
(n.) One who hurls, or plays at hurling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(2) Hurler syndrome, a lethal inborn error of lysosomal metabolism, results from the systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycan.
(3) 4-Trifluoromethylumbelliferyl glycosides were applied for revealing the corresponding enzyme deficiencies upon diagnosis of Gaucher and Hurler diseases as well as GM1 gangliosidosis and alpha-mannosidosis.
(4) The distribution of complex carbohydrates has been investigated at the light and electron microscope levels in sweat glands of normal subjects and patients with Hurler's or Hunter's disease.
(5) Hurler fibroblasts corrected an abnormally high 35SO4-incorporation into acid mucopolysaccharides (MPS) in cultured fibroblasts, whereas Maroteaux-Lamy fibroblasts did not.
(6) Clear cells ("Hurler" cells) were identified within the myocardium and endocardium of both infants.
(7) DI-reactive acid material covered the luminal surface of the sweat gland, coated collagen bundles in the stroma and spared the periglandular collagenous sheath in skin from Hurler and Hunter patients as in that from normal controls.
(8) These biochemical findings clearly demonstrate enzyme differences for these two clinically distinct phenotypes and provide biochemical evidence that the Hurler and Scheie syndromes result from different allelic mutations.
(9) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
(10) Two brothers with Hurler-Scheie syndrome are presented and the oral and systemic complications each patient had described.
(11) as Rivers is as good a a hurler as they come.. You know, this game could have been different.
(12) The authors have seen eight cases of communicating hydrocephalus in children with genetic metabolic disorders, namely, one mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I or Hurler syndrome), one MPS II (Hunter's disease), four MPS III (Sanfilippo syndrome) two of which were siblings, and two achondroplasias.
(13) The pitching performances of their no-name hurlers are a major reason why.
(14) The clinical and roentgenographic features of these cases represent an intermediate phenotype between Hurler's syndrome and Scheie's syndrome, and both parents in each family are first cousins.
(15) Excellent discrimination between normal and affected pregnancies was provided by an estimation of the dermatan sulphate:chondroitin sulphate ratio (Hurler disease) and the heparan sulphate: chondroitin sulphate ratio (Sanfilippo disease); the use of external glycosaminoglycan standards was then unnecessary.
(16) The therapeutic effectiveness of leucocyte transfusion (LT) was compared with that of plasma infusion (PI) clinically by range of motion (ROM) of joints and biochemically from the standpoint of alpha-L-iduronidase activity and urinary excretion of acid mucopolysaccharides (AMPS) in 2 patients with Hurler's and Scheie's syndromes.
(17) 4-Trifluoromethylumbelliferyl-alpha-L-iduronide proved to be also a specific substrate of alpha-L-iduronidase and enabled to detect the enzyme deficiency in patients with Hurler disease as well as a decrease of the enzymatic activity in heterozygous carriers of the disease.
(18) In the present study, the biosynthesis, processing and secretion of alpha-L-fucosidase in I-cell and pseudo-Hurler lymphoid cells was used as a model system to study the existence of such mechanisms.
(19) Thus, they represented the Hurler syndrome clinically, while they had the enzyme defect of the Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome, and they may represent a new severe form of the Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome.
(20) Though these children had the characteristic morphological features of the Hurler syndrome, enzyme assay of cultured fibroblasts showed normal levels of alpha-L-iduronidase and decreased activity of arylsulphatase B.