lurch

Example Sentences

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Seeing his name on my screen sent my stomach lurching.

From Los Angeles Times

I'm not sure "graceful" has a strong enough antonym to describe my first lurches toward a world flipped upside down.

From Salon

The lurches in tone — family melodrama to political thriller to dinner-table farce — make this feel less like a series than a short-story anthology by mismatched authors riffing on a theme.

From New York Times

Forty-nine people died in the 1971 collapse of the Veterans Administration hospital in Sylmar, and three were killed when the newly built Olive View Medical Center saw buildings and stairways collapse, lurch or topple.

From Los Angeles Times

Banking news, stock market lurches got you jittery?

From Washington Post