How to Use hurl in a Sentence

hurl

verb

• He hurled a chair at me.
• Someone hurled a rock through the window.
• It looked like she was going to hurl herself down the stairs.
• The protesters hurled insults at us.
• When the Vikings were losing, Wall would hurl the brick at the TV.
  — Katy Read, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
• The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Some school buses were picked up by the wind and hurled three blocks.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• Watch your head, there’s much talk of tomes being hurled across the room.
  — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
• And hurl it through the stratosphere, The time will come for the mind of man To turn to the heavens for its meat And its wine.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• One of them hurled a fish at the audience—Suzy Menkes, then the doyen of The Times, caught it in her lap.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
• The force of the blast hurled pieces of glass and shrapnel that were embedded in Collins Rudolph’s face.
  — Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• The actor returned fire by hurling a bag of chips at the clerk.
  — Essence, 2 Jan. 2020
• Turns out, the Scream bullies use the same weapon to hurl at Hubie early on in the film.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2020
• Ningning stayed up late to hurl online abuse at the thief.
  — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 4 Feb. 2020
• Wood — who hurled 10 strikeouts in the Cubs’ 5-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds — got his second home run in the game.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Someone from the Black Hole hurled nachos that hit the target.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2019
• The paramedics hurl the tan chair onto the bed to create room, then take Jack by stretcher down to the courtyard.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Young hurled up an off-balance one-hander that bounced off the rim as the horn sounded.
  — arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Members of a group called Blacks for Trump hurled racial slurs at Black sheriff’s deputies.
  — Sudhin Thanawala and Kate Brumback, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• That’s why grown men, battered and weary, hurl themselves in front of speeding pucks and shrug off sticks to the face.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2022
• The new mom hurled ice at her bathtub while screaming, and people had a lot to say about it.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 16 May 2024
• The team’s most demonstrative ultra group, the F Side, began to hurl flares onto the field in protest.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• In Chicago, fans ripped out a turnstile and crammed every nook of Comiskey Park to watch Paige hurl a shutout.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• As Duprey drew closer, the sergeant can be seen on video picking up the cooler and hurling it at Duprey.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• One moment he is sucked into his childhood; the next, he is hurled into the sphere of the angels.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2020
• Snow hurled sideways at us, my driver’s tie flapping in the squall, his bare forearms braced against the cold.
  — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
• The massive Ford Raptor truck then reverses away from the lot, hurling Sloan to the ground.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
• Chris, unable to grasp her concerns, hurls a flurry of insults at her before running away.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
• Travis Kelce is sticking by big brother Jason after the latter returned a homophobic slur hurled by a heckler and threw it to the ground.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024