How to Use hurtle in a Sentence
hurtle
verb
- We kept to the side of the road as cars and trucks hurtled past us.
- Boulders hurtled down the hill.
- He hurtled himself into the crowd.
- The protesters hurtled bottles at the police.
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The shirt is about to hit the fan: The Good Place is hurtling toward the end game.
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Dan Snierson,
EW.com,
25 June 2019
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The wheels are off the wagon and hurtling towards the moon right now.
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Fox News,
6 Apr. 2018
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The grief that came hurtling at me was my mother wound.
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Vanessa Martir,
Longreads,
27 Nov. 2019
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The New Horizons probe has been hurtling through space for close to 14 years.
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
13 Nov. 2019
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Strong winds hurtled off the frozen sea, and thick fog and clouds hung low over the tundra.
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Neil Shea,
National Geographic,
21 Aug. 2019
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In general, the bigger the rocket, the bigger the pieces that come hurtling back down to the ground.
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Ramin Skibba,
Rolling Stone,
6 July 2024
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The city would have been rumbling to life for the workday: Traffic hurtling down the road feet away.
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Anchorage Daily News,
24 Mar. 2018
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The storm was hurtling north-northeast at 16 mph with sustained winds of 35 mph.
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Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
9 July 2024
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The slightest mistake can send the sled hurtling out of control.
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David Wharton,
latimes.com,
21 Jan. 2018
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All of this added to the sense that the Middle East is hurtling toward some new form of upheaval.
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Liz Sly,
Washington Post,
18 May 2018
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The girl is hurtling through literal space at 8Gs, so … no.
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Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2024
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Austin Smith were hurtling over the Pacific Ocean at 280 miles per hour.
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Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
2 Jan. 2020
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In 2016, Justin again hurtled the word at a man during a Cleveland fight.
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Mariah Smith,
The Cut,
11 July 2018
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Progress can be seen in new roads that cut through the mountains and a high-speed train that is set to hurtle down the coast by year’s end.
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The Economist,
1 Mar. 2018
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Peregrine is now hurtling through space, en route to the moon, where it was expected to touch down on Feb. 23.
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Virginia Chamlee,
Peoplemag,
8 Jan. 2024
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When the bus pulled up, he’d be forced to hurtle down the icy slope of the berm, as if descending a miniature Mount Marathon.
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Michelle Theriault Boots,
Anchorage Daily News,
26 Jan. 2023
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The baseball hurtled into the right-field corner for a home run .
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Los Angeles Times,
9 Aug. 2019
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The story hurtles through a year of chaos, and the ride turns shakier when the tone shifts to straight dramatic thriller.
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James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
29 Feb. 2024
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The camera can barely keep up with the bodies and the debris hurtling toward it.
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Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2018
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Something that is distinctive in video footage is that the cars are just hurtling down these roads in poplar trees.
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Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Dec. 2023
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Except that these growth trends might hurtle offtrack long before the end of the decade.
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Jamie Gold,
Forbes,
28 June 2022
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Pulling on the rope dislodged the rock, which hurtled down and struck Kellogg in the head, killing him instantly.
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Nick Heil,
Outside Online,
28 Aug. 2019
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Did the two vans hurtle past the speed limit on the final stretch of road in Belgium and into The Netherlands?
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Amby Burfoot,
Outside Online,
28 May 2019
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One blast hurtled a slab of metal bigger than a school bus across the river.
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NBC News,
16 Jan. 2020
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Winds can send trees lurching into living rooms and debris hurtling through the air.
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Marina Koren,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2024
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Now a margin-of-error race is hurtling into its final five weeks.
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Susan Page,
USA TODAY,
2 Oct. 2024
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