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• He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.From the entry monkey
• I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me.2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116. From the entry smicker
• The wind outside raised dustwhirls and hurled them into the sky.2014, Obinna Udenwe, “Thursday, 11th February 2010”, in Satans and Shaitans, London: Jacaranda, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry dustwhirl
• He seized a clawful of rubble and hurled it up the shaft.2010 [1973], Cormac McCarthy, Child of God, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry clawful
• Rumor once had it that Larry Poons used a catapultlike device to hurl paint onto upright canvases.2008 February 8, Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry catapultlike
• When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon.1946 July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, in New York Times, page 31. From the entry fix someone's wagon
• Even to-day the Turk hurls abuse at the Christian by calling him "an uncircumcised dog."1939, Katherine Jones translation of Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Chapter II. From the entry uncircumcised
• Sideways hurled The krang o ' a warld The sun has flensed Is lyin ' forenenst.1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, Penny Wheep, page 57. From the entry krang
• It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; he hurled it to the floor.1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips &…. From the entry heliotrope
• The ballot for chancellor is secret, which means political Berlin has been hurled into a who-dunnit worthy of Miss Marple.2025 May 7, Mark Sappenfield, “Merz wins in vote that reveals the challenges ahead for Germany”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry who-dunnit
• Desperate, Kim hurls his phone overarm at the creature's forehead.2015–2021, qntm, “Introductory Antimemetics”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry hare
• The moment he released Ashmedai from his fetters, the demon snatched the ring and hurled it into the sea.2006, Dov Noy, Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands, →ISBN, page 586. From the entry Ashmedai
• The guardsman and plastic loo seat were hurled one way, the loo paper another, but there were no injuries.2005 May, Benedict le Vay, “Eccentric Pastimes”, in Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide to Britain’s Follies and Foibles, 2nd edition…. From the entry thunderbox
• One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him.1996, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 17. From the entry voetsek
• All of them hurled their defiance at “bushwa” law.1984, Melvyn Dubofsky, “Socialism and Syndicalism”, in John H. M. Laslett, Seymour Martin Lipset, editors, Failure of a Dream?: Essays in…. From the entry bushwah
• I was hurled into the depths by an Act of God, to wit, a totally unexpected dachshund getting between my legs.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry act of God
• In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry gambol
• The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry broadcloth
• His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos. From the entry bowlder
• Zeus wants to serve you all with the same sauce and hurl the lot of you into the Barathrum.1912, London Athenian Society, Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies, Plutus. From the entry serve someone the same sauce
• "Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug," he said, and hurled the huckaback at his master.1910, H G Wells, The History of Mr Polly, page 27. From the entry huckaback
• It ragdolled my skinny body and tossed me all over the vessel until it hurled me right at Captain Vex’s cabin door.2023, Sk Alham Zain, Fabricated Realities: Short-Stories from the Past, Present, and Future, BlueRose Publishers, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry ragdoll
• He endured countless insults hurled at him before people finally respected him for his courage and his great ability as a baseball player.2020, Pat Mann, 100 Life-Challenging Devotionals. From the entry countless
• LaBute’s plays strike me as the hairy beasts in this foursome; they’re alert, pushy works in which words are hurled like poison darts.2009 June 7, Dwight Garner, “Submitting to a Play’s Spell, Without the Stage”, in New York Times. From the entry wrigglingly
• Minkes can grow to 10m and are likely to approach boats, delighting passengers with acrobatics as they hurl themselves out of the water.2005, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Canada, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry minke
• The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs. From the entry spume
• After the growling the two men stood apart and hurled their boomerangs at each other, but these were easily fended off with the nulla-nullas.1977, Dick Roughsey, Moon and Rainbow: the autobiography of an Aboriginal, Rigby, page 37. From the entry nulla-nulla
• From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.1939, Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road. From the entry woolhat
• The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 147–8. From the entry thumby
• Economists, experts, lobbyists, ghost writers, woman’s organization speakers, lawyers, public relations counsels, and what-have-you’s were hurled at NRA literally by the airplaneful.1933, Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter and New York Druggists’ Price Current, page 30. From the entry airplaneful
• Now, suddenly, he sat bolt upright and began to hurl them one after another down the valley with a great effect of mascularity and science.1927, Elizabeth Bowen, “Valley”, in The Hotel, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1981, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry mascularity
• Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry seafaring

Meaning of hurl

1. verb To throw (something) with force.
2. verb To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
3. verb To participate in the sport of hurling.

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How do you use hurl in a sentence?

Hurl is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The gangs hurled abuse at each other.”

What is a short sentence with hurl?

“He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.”

What does hurl mean?

Hurl means to throw (something) with force.