[ US /ˈhɝtəɫ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɜːtə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. move with or as if with a rushing sound
    The cars hurtled by
  2. throw forcefully
  3. make a thrusting forward movement
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How To Use hurtle In A Sentence

  • Xmas hurtles at us like a skateboarding troll trundling downhill - it's big, impressive, but to be viewed with a certain trepidation by those in its path. Toys R Us - Military Sword & Sorcery is coming ("#### Harry Potter! Daddy, where's my axe?")
  • She threw down the book and hurtled the bobbin of thread across the room.
  • It hurtles through two hours of spellbinding dialogue. It makes an untellable story clear and fascinating.
  • By now, a type of free-style declamation known as ‘recitative’ (literally ‘speech-song’) was being used to hurtle the drama forward.
  • The horses hurtled past, manes streaming behind them.
  • Motorists gave way as the convoy hurtled past and three motorway toll booths raised their barriers to let the cars speed through. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth. The Outcast
  • Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
  • Valery conveys a sense of the viewer's charged state and the imminent darkness in his exclamatory tones, alternating lines with choppy rhythms with those that hurtle towards their close.
  • As well as his own private, career torpedoer herself, Special Agent Ellie Shurtleff. Lifeguard
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