Example sentences for: hurl

How can you use “hurl” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not even the long limousine inspires a class-conscious hooligan to hurl a paving stone; the wise ragamuffin knows he's likely not seeing a mogul but some kids from Queens on the way to their prom.

  • How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?

  • She could be a gleeful provocateur, like one of those Ibsen characters who lives to hurl sticks of dynamite into "the damned, compact majority."

  • That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.

  • For that reason fearful officials hurl false charges at him in the media--never in court--to try to keep him in prison forever and to make people forget about how he blew the whistle on a secret American pro-Iraqi tilt, long before it became public knowledge.


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