verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shout/hurl/scream abuse at sb
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The other driver started hurling abuse at me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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In emergency those bubbles could be hurled back pneumatically, and the whole head would blast clear.
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When Crist tried to leave, he was seized by the coat and hurled back into the room.
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Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore?
down
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In the Down hurling final replay Ballycran will meet Ballygalget.
then
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A tourist enters the foreground, snaps the apparition, pauses, then hurls a stone at it.
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And then hurl that plastic, careful that it lands between the kelp stringers.
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Furious fans then hurled bottles and cans at the madman as he was dragged away.
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Paris struck first, but Menelaus caught the swift spear on his shield, then hurled his own.
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They hesitated as if they expected to be dismissed, and then hurled themselves noisily on Kadan.
■ NOUN
insult
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There is not much to be achieved by hurling insults .
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We would try to top the others in hurling personal insults .
window
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A stun grenade was hurled through the window on the left and landed in the middle of the room.
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Another stun grenade was thrown in and a third soldier hurled himself through the window after it, before it had exploded.
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All around him people were hurling possessions from windows and dragging horses from smoking stables.
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Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants' quarters.
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In the attack, at Forest Gate, east London, two petrol-filled milk bottles were hurled at a window .
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The wind was gusting through the branches of the old oak tree outside and hurling itself against his window .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He picked up the chair and hurled it across the room.
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Some demonstrators began hurling bricks at the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single cushion had been hurled across the room and it lay on the edge of the fireplace.
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One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray.
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So saying he hurled his spear.
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Somebody else suggested a bombshell hurled by a cannon.
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Sufficiently large impacts can hurl crater ejecta to any point on the lunar surface.
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The stolen gym shoe, hurled by Snecky, caught him on the side of the face.
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With one strong arm he hurled Jane aside.