HURL


Meaning of HURL in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

shout/hurl/scream abuse at sb

The other driver started hurling abuse at me.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

back

In emergency those bubbles could be hurled back pneumatically, and the whole head would blast clear.

When Crist tried to leave, he was seized by the coat and hurled back into the room.

Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore?

down

In the Down hurling final replay Ballycran will meet Ballygalget.

then

A tourist enters the foreground, snaps the apparition, pauses, then hurls a stone at it.

And then hurl that plastic, careful that it lands between the kelp stringers.

Furious fans then hurled bottles and cans at the madman as he was dragged away.

Paris struck first, but Menelaus caught the swift spear on his shield, then hurled his own.

They hesitated as if they expected to be dismissed, and then hurled themselves noisily on Kadan.

■ NOUN

insult

There is not much to be achieved by hurling insults .

We would try to top the others in hurling personal insults .

window

A stun grenade was hurled through the window on the left and landed in the middle of the room.

Another stun grenade was thrown in and a third soldier hurled himself through the window after it, before it had exploded.

All around him people were hurling possessions from windows and dragging horses from smoking stables.

Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants' quarters.

In the attack, at Forest Gate, east London, two petrol-filled milk bottles were hurled at a window .

The wind was gusting through the branches of the old oak tree outside and hurling itself against his window .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He picked up the chair and hurled it across the room.

Some demonstrators began hurling bricks at the police.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A single cushion had been hurled across the room and it lay on the edge of the fireplace.

One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray.

So saying he hurled his spear.

Somebody else suggested a bombshell hurled by a cannon.

Sufficiently large impacts can hurl crater ejecta to any point on the lunar surface.

The stolen gym shoe, hurled by Snecky, caught him on the side of the face.

With one strong arm he hurled Jane aside.

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