Example sentences for: hurled

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

  • During the Civil War, nationalist sympathizers in the town were hurled to their deaths in the gorge, an event recalled by Hemingway in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  • These zephyr-borne estimates went way up after the Grucci fireworks barge floated between Liberty Island and the skyline with an electric sign on it that said Talk (did I forget to say that this was Tina Brown's party for her new magazine, Talk ?) and hurled into the black sky a literally earth-shaking barrage of pyrotechnics.

  • War inevitably brings with it vigorous surges in language creativity, as people from all corners of the country and from vastly different walks of life are hurled together under extreme, often bitter conditions.

  • But come instead for the spectacular view from the 297-m- (974-ft-) high Salto di Tiberio (Tiberius’ Leap) precipice, said to be the last pleasure enjoyed by the emperor’s enemies before they were hurled over the edge.

  • And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below.


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