(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.
Thurl
Definition:
(n.) A hole; an aperture.
(n.) A short communication between adits in a mine.
(n.) A long adit in a coalpit.
(v. t.) To cut through; to pierce.
(v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heritabilities were low for lifetime traits and moderate for most type traits except stature, size, capacity, thurl width, and pin setting, which had high heritabilities.
(2) Type traits considered were overall score, general appearance, dairy character, capacity, rump, rump thurl width, rump pin setting, and set of rear legs.
(3) The only notable negative genetic correlations were lifetime production with rear heel (-.16 to -.27), thurl width (-.18 to -.24), and fore udder (-.05 to -.11).
(4) Type traits considered were final class, major scorecard breakdown traits (general appearance, dairy character, capacity, rump, feet and legs, mammary system, fore udder, rear udder), and eight descriptive traits (stature, size, style, dairyness, chest floor, loin strength, thurl width, pin setting).