Example sentences for: hurled

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

  • And there is a cartoon aspect: the curses people hurled at you have come true.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Flaws in the marble so enraged the artist that he hurled a hammer at it, destroying Christ’s left leg — the left arm has been restored and the rather insipid Mary Magdalen was later added by a pupil.

  • I've been involved in a few spats with the Motley Fools over the years, writing stories that I thought were models of judicious balance, only to have all manner of insult hurled upon me, so I guess I'm particularly sensitized to the food-fight aspect of the Internet.


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