What's the difference between hurling and irish?

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.

Irish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
  • (3) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
  • (4) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (5) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
  • (6) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (7) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
  • (8) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
  • (9) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
  • (10) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
  • (11) It is a deal that the Irish government, alongside the Garda Siochana and the RUC, believe could have yielded millions of dollars for the Provisionals.
  • (12) Noonan was also bold in his projection for Irish economic growth by 3.9% for 2015, which is higher than the original 2.7% growth predicted back in April this year.
  • (13) Yet when the final bill for compensating the thousands of victims of that abuse is counted, the cost will be shouldered, in the main, by the Irish taxpayer rather than the Catholic church.
  • (14) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
  • (15) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
  • (16) Equally, Whittingdale pointed out that the Irish defamation act 2009 allows the courts to take account of whether a journalist has adhered to the Irish Press Council's code.
  • (17) At first they seem an unlikely pair – Holland, 64, grew up in a large Irish immigrant family in Lancashire; Chesang, 40 years her junior, was raised in a hut in Kenya .
  • (18) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
  • (19) Allelic proportions in 5 Irish tick samples indicated that both spatial and temporal genetic differentiation exist.
  • (20) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.