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[hurl] / hɜrl /


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To prove her historic hurl was no fluke, she came back with a 192-6 effort on her sixth and last throw.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police.

From BBC May 13, 2026

I will admit, at times I wanted to hurl my laptop into the Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

Moments later his epic 54-yard hurl to Marvin Mims Jr paid off spectacularly, caught deep downfield.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

I saw her hurl herself onto a waiting train.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

The reason anyone who hurls themselves off a mountain for a living might perform such a procedure is a matter of aerodynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

“Stranger Things” hurls the art form into Dungeons & Dragons territory.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2025

These intimacy issues are compressed as tightly as a packed snowball, and I wanted to address them before that icy sphere hurls my way, potentially hitting me smack in the face.

From Salon Jan. 4, 2025

But if Mr. Macron doesn’t bend, he risks cementing his image as “Jupiter,” who hurls down orders from above and takes counsel from few, analysts say.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

“Oomph!” he says again as he hurls a rock much farther than I would have figured a person his size could throw.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

"The country and the world witnessed what happened at Jantar Mantar. Some mischievous youngsters hurled vile abuses," Modi, 75, said in a video posted on Instagram late Friday.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

A little: Those who haven’t read the first 4 will open “The End of the Arab of the Future” and find themselves hurled directly into an unfolding family emergency: Vol.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

But as he hurled his partner high above the ice, he was thrown off balance by grammar and umlauts.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

But the charged particles hurled into space by our tempestuous Sun - the particles that create the aurora borealis - can also unleash very rare but extremely disruptive events here on Earth.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

Cassiopeia ran back from the window and hurled herself atop Simon’s shoulders.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

North Korea has recently been hurling criticism at Japan, a former regional colonial power, over what Pyongyang describes as its remilitarisation.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Since then, restaurant chains have been hurling discounts and deals at consumers to win them back.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

A video widely circulated online showed a number of people, including one wielding a hurling stick, confronted the attacker until police officers arrived at the scene.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

Mr. Hanks does not feel, like some others, that he has to sell us on the importance of the subject at hand, hurling superlatives like hand grenades.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

I ran to the back garden in time to catch Mum hurling her Prince Charles and Princess Diana mug at a gigantic heron, perched on the rockery.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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