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hurtling

verb as in plunge, charge

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Silvestre Varela was hurtling toward the U.S. goal when Ronaldo fed him a pass of curvilinear purity.

This was a madcap game, the ball hurtling from end to end, chased by tired legs of every hue.

Safety officials believe it snapped, sending both acrobats and apparatus hurtling 25 to 40 feet to the floor.

How about the $300 million of money from anonymous campaign spenders now hurtling toward our elections?

For example: the damsel is tied to the train tracks, the Pacific Union hurtling her way.

Dorothy's slight figure came hurtling out of the pit's mouth, tossed to their very feet by the long arms of Peter Piper.

A great mass of dirt and brush and rock was hurtling down upon them with sickening velocity.

One of the swivel guns was fired, and then came a whole broadside, sending its balls hurtling over the crowded deck of the sloop.

He experimented carefully, floating the rocks at different angles and then hurtling them skyward.

Crouching under the arc of the hurtling body, the Cro-Magnard drove his long knife to the hilt in the white-furred belly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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