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• After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.From the entry like the clappers
• (hurling) the end of a hurley.From the entry toe
• We are into senior hurling now, to use an Irish phrase.2018 February 1, Darragh O'Brien, "Brexit Issues: British Irish Chamber of Commerce" Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and…. From the entry senior hurling
• Lixnaw is my parish and my hurling club; Ballinclogher is my townland and my home.2014, Paul Galvin, “North Kerry – Rebel Stronghold”, in In My Own Words: The Autobiography, London: Transworld Ireland, Transworld…. From the entry townland
• Protesters burned a train station below, hurling tyres on to an already roaring blaze across the tracks.2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian. From the entry bunker
• Marcus caught up another large rock, but before hurling it he paused, squinting eagerly down his murder-hole.2006, Jonathan Stroud, The Last Siege, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry murder-hole
• They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door.2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life. From the entry wedge up
• Vain, helpless deathling! thou that seek'st for fame By hurling filth at an eternal name.1934, Algernon Sydney Logan, The Mirror of a Mind: The image of air, Saul, The last crusade, page 150. From the entry deathling
• "I'm nothing of the sort," exclaimed the MacQuibble, hurling down the gage of battle at once.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932. From the entry gage
• You know, toyi-toying and hurling stones, and they are arrested and sentenced to a minimum five years on Robben Island.2017, Matthew Hahn, The Robben Island Shakespeare. From the entry toyi-toyi
• There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground.2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620. From the entry corporation
• The spontaneous, improvisatory, perhaps bennied-up writer is not a raving verbiage-machine hurling out every word that comes to mind.1998, David Sterritt, Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry bennied-up
• To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.1984, Simon Rockman, “Rockman Files: MUD, MUD, Glorious MUD”, in Games Computing, volume April 1984, page 89. From the entry mobile
• It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.2016 December 18, Daniel Gray, “Boxing Day football: Game and Christmas collide to make us all excitable children”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry pie-eyed
• Desperate to stop before hurling herself off the edge of the cliff, she grabbed for a nearby tree branch, but the spindly bough snapped off in her hands.2018, Katie Ruggle, Through the Fire. From the entry bough
• The whole day long you kept showing up behind the door, hurling taunt after taunt at me for not tying a rakhi on you, until Mother finally relented.2011, Altaf Fatima, “Do You Suppose It’s the East Wind?”, in Reza Aslan, editor, Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle…. From the entry rakhi
• Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.2009 June 20, Ian O'Riordan, “Tipperary look in better shape”, in The Irish Times. From the entry hoop

Meaning of hurling

1. noun The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
2. noun An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
3. noun A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

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How do you use hurling in a sentence?

Hurling is used as a noun. For example: “After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.”

What is a short sentence with hurling?

“(hurling) the end of a hurley.”

What does hurling mean?

Hurling means the act by which something is hurled or thrown.