How to Use hurtle in a Sentence

hurtle

verb

• We kept to the side of the road as cars and trucks hurtled past us.
• Boulders hurtled down the hill.
• He hurtled himself into the crowd.
• The protesters hurtled bottles at the police.
• The grief that came hurtling at me was my mother wound.
  — Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019
• The New Horizons probe has been hurtling through space for close to 14 years.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Nov. 2019
• Austin Smith were hurtling over the Pacific Ocean at 280 miles per hour.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Peregrine is now hurtling through space, en route to the moon, where it was expected to touch down on Feb. 23.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• When the bus pulled up, he’d be forced to hurtle down the icy slope of the berm, as if descending a miniature Mount Marathon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
• The story hurtles through a year of chaos, and the ride turns shakier when the tone shifts to straight dramatic thriller.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Except that these growth trends might hurtle offtrack long before the end of the decade.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• One blast hurtled a slab of metal bigger than a school bus across the river.
  — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
• The Sky Rider Coaster is a zip line that hurtles patrons across the park high above the action.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2020
• The sky show is due to a geomagnetic storm that's now hurtling toward the Earth.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• But as the war unfolds, Israel is hurtling toward a lose-lose outcome.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2023
• The unusual event also sent an HVAC unit hurtling out of the top of a building, and caused skylights to break and wood crossbeams to snap.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• The sport sees four skaters hurtle down tracks in a race to finish first, in a format similar to ski- and snowboard cross.
  — Celine Ramseyer, CNN, 31 Dec. 2019
• And long trains that were assembled with too much weight in the rear and too little up front were hurtling out of control and jumping off of tracks.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• It was sparked — unsurprisingly — by Smart hurtling his body into the stands to chase a loose ball.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• While Hanuman is flying up to the sun, Indra, the king of the gods, strikes him with a thunderbolt, breaking his jaw and sending him hurtling to the ground.
  — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• His mother said the 23-year-old grew up a few blocks from where he was struck and killed as the truck hurtled through pedestrians and cyclists at 66 mph.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 May 2023
• There’s a hurtling momentum to the way Rustebakke has directed much of the performance that the sequence of events gets lost.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• The warning sounds come too shortly for one to do anything but hurtle to the ground, hoping to be far enough and hidden enough to avoid shrapnel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2022
• Within a few seconds, the pigeons would start hurtling from the ventilation door above us.
  — Hal Herring, Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
• High above the desert in a cloudless sky, the VSS Unity ignited its rocket to hurtle the ship and two pilots toward space.
  — Morgan Lee, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
• At least four coaches are on fragile ground and at least one more is hurtling toward retirement.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Once a window shatters, Babbitt leaps up and tries to hurtle herself through.
  — al, 12 Jan. 2021
• The scrap between the leading teams is surreal as well as punchy, with the Ford and the Ferrari hurtling between green fields, so close to each other that the drivers can swap snarls.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• High above the desert in a cloudless sky, VSS Unity ignited its rocket to hurtle the ship and two pilots toward space.
  — Morgan Lee, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2021
• Around the start of the new year, a wild turkey was going about its day along California’s Central Coast when an arrow came hurtling and shot through its chest.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024