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 shirt is about to hit the fan: The Good Place is hurtling toward the end game.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 25 June 2019
• The wheels are off the wagon and hurtling towards the moon right now.
  — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Strong winds hurtled off the frozen sea, and thick fog and clouds hung low over the tundra.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• In general, the bigger the rocket, the bigger the pieces that come hurtling back down to the ground.
  — Ramin Skibba, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2024
• The city would have been rumbling to life for the workday: Traffic hurtling down the road feet away.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2018
• The storm was hurtling north-northeast at 16 mph with sustained winds of 35 mph.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
• The slightest mistake can send the sled hurtling out of control.
  — David Wharton, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• All of this added to the sense that the Middle East is hurtling toward some new form of upheaval.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• The girl is hurtling through literal space at 8Gs, so … no.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
• Austin Smith were hurtling over the Pacific Ocean at 280 miles per hour.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• In 2016, Justin again hurtled the word at a man during a Cleveland fight.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 11 July 2018
• Progress can be seen in new roads that cut through the mountains and a high-speed train that is set to hurtle down the coast by year’s end.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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 baseball hurtled into the right-field corner for a home run .
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The camera can barely keep up with the bodies and the debris hurtling toward it.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Something that is distinctive in video footage is that the cars are just hurtling down these roads in poplar trees.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Dec. 2023
• Except that these growth trends might hurtle offtrack long before the end of the decade.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Pulling on the rope dislodged the rock, which hurtled down and struck Kellogg in the head, killing him instantly.
  — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2019
• Did the two vans hurtle past the speed limit on the final stretch of road in Belgium and into The Netherlands?
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 28 May 2019
• One blast hurtled a slab of metal bigger than a school bus across the river.
  — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
• Things are coming to a head as the show hurtles toward its finale.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The nation’s most electric returner looked up as a second-quarter Wisconsin punt came hurtling in his direction.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024