Example sentences for: hurl

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

  • The Accademia’s uncontested star, the great David (which once stood in the Piazza della Signoria, now substituted by a life-size copy), provides the perfect object lesson of the finished product, a hero infused with all the contained energy needed to hurl that stone at Goliath.

  • It was sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.

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

  • Certain phrases are so potent and evocative they inspire you to hurl the newspaper across the room, or hurl yourself across the room to switch the station, or hurl the cat across the room to ...

  • The Balinese and Sasaks hurl packets of cooked rice at each other in the October perang ketupet festival.


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