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.
The state government has lurched from one budget crisis to another.
The car lurches to a halt. Times, Sunday Times
I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan.
Her body lurched, so thin the lightest touch would break her in half, heaving gasps of terror.
Try having that for the best part of several weeks, with the occasional lurch in either direction.
The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
High street banks seem to lurch from one mis-selling scandal to the next. Times, Sunday Times
Vinnie hunts rabbits for the pot with his three lurchers and maintains that his way of killing them is as humane as any alternative.
With a lurch the party found itself heading for a major crisis.
My stomach gave an involuntary lurch at the word dying, but I tried not to show it. The Year I Turned Sixteen
Booms are almost by definition a huge transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another leaving many in the lurch.
My stomach lurched and my heart pounded. The Sun
There was something about the place, something in the air - not so much a smell, as an aura - that made you check your step, as if you were a rabbit sensing a lurking lurcher.
The aircraft was pitching with turbulence and I was lurching about, bracing myself against the walls.
It is unlikely that she will be fazed by the sudden lurch on to the global political scene. Times, Sunday Times
The truck gave a sudden lurch as it was hit by a strong gust of wind.
The train lurched forward and some of the people standing fell over.
My stomach lurched as fear and adrenaline flooded me. Christianity Today
My stomach lurched as another big wave hit the boat.
Above them they saw the bulldozer lurching and shuddering slantwise down the torn edge of cliff. COUP D'ETAT
That bloody lurcher cross breed was there again.
Suddenly the horse lurched to one side and the child fell off.
There will be three rings at the dog show for greyhounds, lurchers, whippets and any other breeds.
The paper seems to have lurched politically rightward in its news coverage lately.
The noise shocked Sharina into an unmeant scream, but the touch of Nonnus 'hand prevented her from lurching out of the circle and perhaps off the platform itself. Lord of the Isles
But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
Mostly chronological, the action lurches suddenly forwards or backwards as the mood takes it. Times, Sunday Times
I saw the mizzen topmast lurching across a faint radiance of cloud behind which was the moon. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
At about 10pm we suddenly lurched to a halt. Times, Sunday Times
The truck lurched, and they bumped and heaved like they were on a deeply rutted road. Crimson Wind
The state government has lurched from one budget crisis to another.
The close-knit dramas of family life thus necessarily give way to an episodic tale that lurches from one eccentric encounter to another. Times, Sunday Times
Few think oil prices will lurch downwards again. Times, Sunday Times
But she's too drunk to keep her balance and the momentum of the lurch is enough to send her sprawling.
Taken by surprise, I lurched but recovered myself.
The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use of careen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generally careen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed. Word of the Day
Right now their season lurches from one massive disappointment to another. The Sun
My stomach lurched and my heart pounded. The Sun
I can hear the rain beating down on the roof like a meteor shower as our car lurches violently from side to side, rocking disobediently on its haunches, fat tyres chafing loudly over what appears to be a long, shallow pond.
Or you can call it lurching about. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, the cow has left me in the lurch and now I have to do her work (which was originally mine which I foisted on her) as well as my own.
The drunk lurched to his feet and tried to follow us.
This lurch into wintry conditions should not come as a surprise. Times, Sunday Times
But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
Their relationship's combustibility lurches to the fore in the first moments of this searing production, directed by Patrick Egan: Family Feud: Teeth of the Sons
The defendant was said to have turned to fraud when Mr Moore left her in the lurch and she was struggling to pay the mortgage on her pension, the court was told.
Just a few hundred metres down the road, the car abruptly lurches to the right and back again. Times, Sunday Times
As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
Most of the passengers closed their eyes and prayed as the aircraft lurched above the peaks. Times, Sunday Times
Her virtual car lurches forward, overtaking a rival competitor tearing around the Alpine race track.
But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
He lurches back in his seat. Times, Sunday Times
He had fame at his fingertips, only to reject it for a life that lurched from decadence to decay. Times, Sunday Times
The quick dart down the corridor to the loo in your underpants at 3am as you lurch through France. Times, Sunday Times
And even then, with his own mount stumbling and nearly pitching him headforemost at each lurch, he was forced to admire the mare's goatlike agility, for she descended into the gorge in running leaps, never setting a wrong foot. In The Time Of Light
The rest of his query was drowned out by the sound of hissing air and falling metal as the ship lurched, and at the same time, the door began to open.
Sam hit the gas and the car lurched forward.
And I kind of -- as I remember, kind of lurched forward, and end up with my head in the dirt. CNN Transcript May 21, 2005
Instead it's a lurch from one graphic scene to another and this makes for a tough read. The Sun
Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails.
There was a loudish bang and her car lurched forward with the impact.
It lurched unsubtly off, towing him after it. Times, Sunday Times
But it has kept long-term bond yields lower than they were in January, despite a fresh lurch towards US deficit financing, while forcing up asset prices and pressing investors to take on more risk.
On a suburban street where drifts of red and gold leaves line the green lawns, a car is lurching perilously - nearly missing a boy on a bike, sideswiping another car.
The date is also traditionally the first day of hunting meets and foxhounds, lurchers, greyhounds, beagles, minkhounds, terriers and other hunting dogs will all be taken along to Higham.
After a fortnight of failure, a villager reported that the lurcher repeatedly visited one isolated house.
Shall I leave my brother in the lurch?" the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it. In The Time Of Light
The problem is that the violence does seem gratuitous, ludicrous lurches at the ends of acts. Times, Sunday Times
The bus is practically empty, so they move to the back as the bus lurches forwards.
It is unlikely that she will be fazed by the sudden lurch on to the global political scene. Times, Sunday Times
Like, so sweet that anytime your face is within jumping (well, more like 'lurching') distance she will find a way to lick it. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
One of the coins lurched in the air, hanging directly between the two of them. Mistborn
Some underfeed their whippets, lurchers, or greyhounds, because they mistakenly think these breeds are meant to be stick-thin.
I clip the kerb and feel the lurch through my sprung seat. Times, Sunday Times
‘Uhm… yes, I'm here ’, I replied lurching forward about two metres into the already hard-pressed crowd.
The Law was perfectly adequate before the Hunting Act 2005 to prosecute didicoy poachers coursing their lurchers on private land and in this regard the new Act is quite otiose. Archive 2007-07-01
And I don't propose to consider here whether Labour should lurch to the left to find its way out of the wilderness.
As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides shock still in their chairs, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin. Hillary: Pledged Delegates "Just Like" Supers �� They Can Switch
As the tank lurched away the shape ignited on a surface of bare rock, blasting it to pieces.
But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
To the onlookers below, it seemed as if a second sun lurched drunkenly through the sky, from which blazing goddesses descended and ascended while thunderbolts flashed and pealed.
As reported last week, it dropped plans to sell-off its vehicle depots as part of the deal following fears that it would leave winter road maintenance in the lurch.
Villagers were in their colourful headgear huddled together in a lurching truck on a rustic road.
It takes guts to stare down the barrel of a gun and lurch forward. The Sun
We lurch from one disastrous deal to the next. Times, Sunday Times
Instead it's a lurch from one graphic scene to another and this makes for a tough read. The Sun
We are taken on a wild ride -- for a ride, we may occasionally feel -- that executes its hairpin bends with breathtaking lurches. Shadow of the Wind: Summary and book reviews of Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
It lurched toward a set of double doors, banged into them, and flew into darkness.
As governments, we stumble from crisis to crash program, lurching into the future without plan, without hope, without vision.
Dark silhouettes lurched crazily in the flickering light, while the pub doors creaked and slammed threatrically in the wind.
A pattern can now be discerned whereby we are lurching haltingly in the right direction but personally, I would prefer our arrival at a better alternative much earlier than later.
We have received a very apologetic letter about the closure of the West End Club, but it really left us in the lurch.
In the following months, she went with Ye every afternoon after work to catch lurchers.
The doors immediately slid shut, and with a shake and a judder, the floor beneath them lurched.
The tank's engine rose and pitch, and gave a sudden lurch as the treads sprung to life.
Every so often it lurches to a halt and young men jump out and pin posters to wide-bodied baobab trees. Times, Sunday Times
My stomach lurched at the sight of him. The Sun
And I don't propose to consider here whether Labour should lurch to the left to find its way out of the wilderness.
The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard.
Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down.
Wrenching sideways, I feel the rope make a sudden lurch down, frightening me.
Her heart was beating wildly and her stomach lurched.
We find only a few clusters of trees punctuating the grassland, which is almost unrelievedly open and sunny—disadvantageous for a lurk-and-lurch predator. The Song of The Dodo
The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
Amy has a lurcher, who I've looked after on occasion, and she takes my crotchety terrier.
There are times when the world of nature conservation lurches dangerously close to lunacy. Times, Sunday Times
Some grumble and gripe, and lurch from crisis to crisis.
The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
But when he came to the pool his pace was so precipitate that he could not stop it, and with a kind of lurching stagger, he fell splash into the greasy water. The Ball and the Cross
Mouths caked numb by a throat-cracking berg wind, we lurched back along the beach, bumbling along the craggy rocks to rest beneath the overhang, surfed out strandlopers looking wild and red-eyed.
The drunk lurched to his feet and tried to follow us.
Crab, in this case, is played by a somnambulant lurcher called Ria.
Larry wanted to give me a tour of his ranch, so we talked in his pickup, lurching down rutted dirt roads.
What we called chaat: fresh, spicy, quick bites, with a whiff of exhaust from the bus lurching by. NPR Topics: News
This is the fire sale of a continent lurching from the farm to the factory.
India, which again suffered downward lurches in their currencies yesterday, are not the only emerging economies with big current account deficits suffering huge outflows of investor money. Times, Sunday Times
So in a cloud of dust, the taxi lurched forward, throwing me back into my seat at the back.
This means that power to the engine is cut while the mechanism declutches and changes gear, causing a marked lurching sensation.
But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
Instead it's a lurch from one graphic scene to another and this makes for a tough read. The Sun
Mostly chronological, the action lurches suddenly forwards or backwards as the mood takes it. Times, Sunday Times
The moment his torso lurched forward in the bed, she placed her hand soothingly on his back. Stories from the War
It is a role that sees him take responsibility for the hatching of partridge eggs, watching out for fly-tippers as well as organising foxhound, beagle and lurcher club meets and seeing to the needs of shooting syndicates.
The first minister's lurch to populist authoritarianism is obscuring a success story, one in which law and order policies seem to be working.
The ship had seven short masts, and though the sails were furled, the ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
And then he flashed me a smile that would have brought a steinbock to its knees, and my stomach lurched.
It then lurched around, like a cross between a cartoon train and a dodgem car.
He had an abundance of dogs which he raised and trained, including lurchers, spaniels, Labradors, Jack Russells and whippets.
The man opposite me yanks the communication cord, and we lurch to a halt.
The advent of plastic saw this natural and eco-friendly product being forced out of homes, leaving the craftsmen in the lurch.
And he admitted he is finding it increasingly difficult to focus on his job while the club lurches from one damage limitation exercise to another. The Sun
Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
She just lurches from one bad relationship to another.
I feel sick, my stomach lurching and turning and doing a dance I didn't request.
With a lurch the party found itself heading for a major crisis.
But once the opening notes to "Huzzah 2" lurch in and the hook switched into the patois during the intro, the crowd was all in, hanging on his every word, hypnotically bobbing to the low hum of huzzahuzzahuzzahuzzah by song's end. Jerell Tongson: Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Action Bronson and Mr. M-fin' eXquire Shut Down Southpaw
The shoulders of the young man lurched upwards in an irregular motion and his brows arched to the roots of his hair as he stared at his father.
If the military really can't fight wars without contractors, it must at least come up with ironclad policies on what to do if the private soldiers break local laws or leave American forces in the lurch.
Virginia's heart lurched painfully in her chest.
My stomach lurched as fear and adrenaline flooded me. Christianity Today
The date is also traditionally the first day of hunting meets and foxhounds, lurchers, greyhounds, beagles, minkhounds, terriers and other hunting dogs will all be taken along to Higham.
Asked to raise one leg, he lurched forward into the officer in front of him.
The van lurched to a stop in a gravel parking lot of Wilkin's lake, the girls clambered out into the coolish air and grabbed their bags.
As she jumped up, Moby made a lurch to grab her but missed.
They went at a dogtrot, along well-kept trails, under cool leaves; they halted a few minutes at a time when it seemed indicated; but toward the end men lurched along in each other's arms. Do you ever read writing?
Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedral lurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory.
The car lurched forward as Rob threw it into drive and raced for the western exit.
Is the world economy about to lurch downwards? Times, Sunday Times
Her fin keel struck bottom, and her main topmast lurched and shivered as if about to come down upon our heads. Chapter 15
Masters and slaves exchanged roles and both ‘ate and drank themselves insensible; they would lurch to the vomitorium and stagger back for the next course.’
Harden's Krasner is a maelstrom of emotions, lurching from admiration of her husband to fierce rage at his drunken womanising.
The quick dart down the corridor to the loo in your underpants at 3am as you lurch through France. Times, Sunday Times
Right now their season lurches from one massive disappointment to another. The Sun
Cope is derailed by enthusiastic interjections from proprietary fans and the show lurches from one interruption to another.
Here you are back on your haw-kins, from Blasil the Brast to our povotogesus portocall, the furt on the turn of the hurdies, slave to trade, vassal of spices and a dragon-the-market, and be turbot, lurch a stripe, as were you soused methought out of the mackerel. Finnegans Wake
Their relationship seems to lurch from one crisis to the next.
Your heart lurched watching the domestic and national violence unfold. Times, Sunday Times
He lurched forwards to throw his first spear. Times, Sunday Times
May 29th, 2009 LONDON - A British tourist was left in the lurch after a large wild parrot known as the kea stole his passport in New Zealand. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
It was a fine demonstration that taking a car by the scruff of the neck doesn't have to mean ten minutes of lurching, understeer and oversteer.
There was a lurch and the tube seemed to bounce buoyantly as if floating on water.
The song, with its lurching vocals, cranky guitars and pulsating rhythm, got me pretty intrigued.
The shadows lurched forward, purling around his ankles like tendrils of smoke.
Mary Deanne Shears, terrorizing managing editrix of the Star, is widely considered toast now that publisher Lurch Honderich has got the sack.
It's all guesswork this week, though, because we don't know who is able to dance like an angel skipping across the clouds, and who can only lurch around like a wonky 1930s robot.
So in a cloud of dust, the taxi lurched forward, throwing me back into my seat at the back.
But despite his conservative beginnings, D' Amato turned out to be ever the trimmer, lurching toward the center whenever he thought that it would win votes or money.
The result is a blander listen – no more lurching between OMD and The Organist Entertains, as happened on Thursday night – but more acceptable, perhaps, to the listeners he has been told to aim for: not 30- and 40-year-olds, but fiftysomethings. Rewind radio: One block in Harlem; A coat, a Hat and a Gun; Seeksmusic.com | review
The lurching was getting worse and worse, his stomach feeling like his ma's old twin-tub. It's October, 1956.
The car lurched gently beneath her feet and began to rise as the weight of the second began to descend under gravity.
Viewers gazed in astonishment as the supposedly silver-tongued trial lawyer lurched from one inanity to the next.
Chris lurches rightward toward Peggy.
The report comes amid increasing fears that the economy is lurching back into crisis. Times, Sunday Times
The choreography combines the martial lurches of capoeira, the summer-scented hips and shuffle of samba, and street dance's propulsive virtuosity. Times, Sunday Times
Your heart lurched watching the domestic and national violence unfold. Times, Sunday Times
What dedicated texter hasn't suffered an epic misunderstanding, or experienced a sick lurch of fear upon dispatching a message of sensitive character to the wrong recipient?
The ship lurched forward and sideways as the men tried to take their seats on the bridge.
He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench.
Your heart lurched watching the domestic and national violence unfold. Times, Sunday Times
We lurch from one disastrous deal to the next. Times, Sunday Times
The double-decker coach from Bendigo made exciting viewing, tilting, lurching and leaning.
He takes a seat directly behind, and as the bus lurches off, propelling us forward in our seats, he closes his eyes, just for a millisecond longer than strictly required.
The bus lurched like a ship and a blast of hot air threw us to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 23 weeks 5 days ago my dog got along fine with the choke collar. we needed about 10 months to get everyrthing right. now he just has a custom made nylon collar. he is a big boy. it works as a handle around the house. the pizza man still calls him "lurch" that dog always gets to the door first. The Collar Debate: Pinch vs.
There were poets who lurched words across the page ornate words that had women bound, bah! bah! said Ezra Pound, ‘I have sung women in three cities, But it is all the same; and I will sung of the sun’.
It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them. Chapter 26
Elderly people in Little Hulton were left in the lurch when the local launderette closed - meaning a one and a half mile trek to the nearest facilities.
The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.

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