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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hurl .
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Examples
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It always bats a thousand, so long as its partner, a powerful robotic pitcher, hurls the ball anywhere within the strike zone.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It always bats a thousand, so long as its partner, a powerful robotic pitcher, hurls the ball anywhere within the strike zone.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Year after year, project after project, the board hurls roadblocks in the name of good government by uttering its famous three words — “need more studies.”
Arlington's roadblocks to traffic relief Springfield Pat Herrity 2011
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Just as he announces, "We shall prevail," she hurls her hammer through the screen.
The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform Rupert Murdoch 2011
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In the third, he hurls the ball dead level to the ground, “Koufax.”
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In her effort to evade capture, her character hurls explosives, jumps off a bridge and rides a motorcycle through stalled freeway traffic.
Jolie Takes Risk on 'Salt' Erik Holm 2011
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On hand as well, in her first starring role in a television series, is Angelica Huston as Eileen, an indefatigable producer with a heart of stone when it comes to her philandering, influential husband, whom she's divorcing, and in whose face she regularly hurls the drinks he keeps buying for her in his effort to weasel his way back into her life.
A Musical for Marilyn Monroe Dorothy Rabinowitz 2012
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That's the manly legacy his wife, Theresa Teri Polo, hurls at him while complaining that he uses pomegranate body wash and likes coffee with hazelnut nondairy creamer.
The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Tom Brady drops back to throw from the Jets 40, and there's a brief pause before he hurls the ball downfield to a streaking Moss, who has beaten Revis by a step and a half.
Randy Moss's 'Retirement' May Be Brief Jason Gay 2011
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The big, handsome northern flicker is an aggressive bird that often hurls itself at its reflection, falls like a stone, lies on its back with its feet curled up for a while, opens one eye, gets shakily up and staggers through the air to a nearby branch where it spends an hour or two thinking black thoughts—and then flies into the window again.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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