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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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