How to use hurtle in a sentence

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• He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.From the entry ease up
• The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.From the entry ping
• As the van hurtled towards her, she threw the bag at the bonnet of the van.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry blood-curdling
• A fireball hurtled across the southern Tucson sky in broad daylight Saturday morning.2008 August 23, Shelley Shelton, “Streaking fireball a vivid spectacle in daytime sky”, in Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Ariz., archived…. From the entry in broad daylight
• A flash of bright yellow and blue hurtled quickly uplevel through the atrium's center.2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess. From the entry uplevel
• On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.1993, Michael Hume Jackson, Galapagos, a Natural History, page 143. From the entry headlong
• An extra-normal thump, too; damme, he had seen her hurtle through the air like a wet sack.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 214. From the entry extranormal
• I made my way up and found we were hurtling out toward mid-Atlantic.1906 January, Edwin Fowler, “At Bay”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XXIII, number IV, page 440. From the entry Mid-Atlantic
• Hurtling through the air that evening in seat 10C, I read the US House committee’s Max investigation, a disruptor of illusions.2025 March 11, Lauren Smiley, “The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers. Fatal crashes. A…. From the entry they
• In our tiny 30-foot schooner, the 40-foot (think four stories high) waves looked more like giant mountains hurtling at us.2022, Amour Vincit Omnia, “Why The Price Of Love Is Pain”, in Agapé, volume 22, number 1, page 5. From the entry cinch
• Danny hurtles the back of the sofa, snatches his sister in a chokehold, and works a serious nuggy into her head.2018, Beem Weeks, Strange Hwy: Short Stories, Fresh Ink Group, →ISBN. From the entry nuggy
• The cars were hurtling towards each other across the pitch.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry chicken
• The tomato hurtling from my hand hit a Bonzo Pup calendar hanging on the wall behind the now vanished head.2010, Clarissa Lablache Cheer, Edwardian candlelight: My Childhood Memories, page 179. From the entry pippy
• "We ended up at Wet 'n' Wild on the Gold Coast and spent the next four hours hurtling down waterslides.2009 January 26, Jim Wilson, “Michael Voss plan earns points from Jonathan Brown”, in Herald Sun. From the entry waterslide
• If Mondo was alive, he'd be long gone, the ambulance hurtling blues and twos to the nearest hospital.2003, Val McDermid, The Distant Echo, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 304. From the entry blues and twos
• A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.2001 April 26, Eoin Colfer, “Troll”, in Artemis Fowl, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Scholastic, published September 2001, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry maelstrom
• These particles are miserable, unlike the happy chuntey and will try to harm unlucky chuntey particles as they hurtle past.2001, Adam Short, “I could do with some help here - networks and stuff”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet). From the entry chuntey
• As the tower clears us downwind for landing, we thread our way gingerly through a hurtling mass of aerobating lightplanes.1966 August, Flying Magazine, volume 79, number 2. From the entry aerobate
• The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165. From the entry carsploitation
• Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.2010, David Booth, Every Pointed Star, iUniverse, page 53. From the entry pocketa-queep
• Once, on the wood's further edge, he heard a splintering crack and leapt backwards as a torn limb hurtled towards him through the darkness.1955, John Keir Cross, The dancing tree, page 185. From the entry outbranch
• Somewhere near the end of “Resurrection,” a sleek, hurtling, ridiculously entertaining horror movie from Andrew Semans, there’s a scene of such gruesomely bonkers intent that I actually gasped.2022 July 28, Jeannette Catsoulis, “‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Sep…. From the entry gruesomely
• Pointing her sword, she directed bowswomen with their flaming arrows and witches with their spells, as they hurtled their strikes in bright trails at the enemy.2006, Kresley Cole, No Rest for the Wicked, Pocket Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 334. From the entry bowswoman
• Her eyes adjusted slowly to the light, and through the lasery gloom she saw what seemed like a thousand children hurtling like atomic particles through the semidarkness.2003, Daniel Coyle, Waking Samuel: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry lasery
• Without further words, the two gentlemen retreated to the opposite ends of the clearing, fewtered their spears, and prepared to hurtle together in the preliminary charge.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 7, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in…. From the entry fewter

Meaning of hurtle

1. verb To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
2. verb To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
3. verb To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.

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How do you use hurtle in a sentence?

Hurtle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.”

What is a short sentence with hurtle?

“Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.”

What does hurtle mean?

Hurtle means to propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.