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US
/ˈɫɝtʃ/
]
[ UK /lˈɜːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɜːtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- an unsteady uneven gait
- the act of moving forward suddenly
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abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
the pitching and tossing was quite exciting - a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
VERB
-
move slowly and unsteadily
The truck lurched down the road -
move abruptly
The ship suddenly lurched to the left - loiter about, with no apparent aim
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walk as if unable to control one's movements
The drunken man staggered into the room - defeat by a lurch
How To Use lurch In A Sentence
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
- What about the gorgeous symmetry of a well executed hexadecagon, or the quirky lurch of the isotoxal decagram. Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.
- The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
- The problem is that their remarkable efficiency allows them to overproduce almost any commodity, so agriculture tends to lurch from surplus to surplus.
- I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward.
- There was a sickening lurch; immediate survival seemed more crucial than a putative riot.
- The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down. BLACKWATER SOUND
- There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
- Mr. Vincent will be left in the lurch; he will not even have the lady's fair hand -- her _fair_ heart is Tales and Novels — Volume 03
- In addition, according to the Cobham Report, there are 70,000 people with lurchers used for hunting hares.
