lurch
Example Sentences
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Seeing his name on my screen sent my stomach lurching.
From Los Angeles Times
There were the lurches, waves of the gloves and points of the bat - that will never change - but a false shot percentage of 49% was his personal record high.
From BBC
Instead it lends, lends, lends—to economies already so heavily indebted that they lurch from one fiscal and financial crisis to the next.
I want to focus on New York, which did the biggest lurch.
The spread to Chile of organized crime gangs originating in Venezuela, Peru and other countries has sown terror among the population, causing a lurch to the right.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.