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.
  • Too many can send it hurtling over the edge.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The rhymes hurtle out at double and triple time.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • One wrong step sent Luhn hurtling down the side of the mountain.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The wheels are off the wagon and hurtling towards the moon right now.
    — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
  • When the ball hurtled through the hoop, Carter yelled, along with the fans.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Strong winds hurtled off the frozen sea, and thick fog and clouds hung low over the tundra.
    — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The wheel of time spins on, and the earth on its axis, round and round the sun, hurtling through space.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The slightest mistake can send the sled hurtling out of control.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Imagine the force of cotton and spandex hurtling at such speeds.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The biker was sent hurtling through the air as his vehicle ripped apart.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • But the field is hurtling in an alarming direction.
    — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Ninety miles an hour — and yet no sensation of hurtling through the air.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the play keeps hurtling forward with more monologues and no end in sight.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2017
  • During the winter, his tall, lanky frame can be seen hurtling down ski slopes on his snowboard.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 14 July 2019
  • One teen, for instance, drew a pitch black pickup truck hurtling through the Libyan desert.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
  • Things are coming to a head as the show hurtles toward its finale.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • One blast hurtled a slab of metal bigger than a school bus across the river.
    — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
  • My preview began on a cargo train that is hurtling through a tunnel.
    — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The people hurtling toward it aren’t falling.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The baseball hurtled into the right-field corner for a home run .
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The camera goes hurtling after the characters, none of whom move the same way.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • During his world record run, Billy sounded like a train hurtling down a track.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The impact sent the car hurtling into Singh, crushing him, cops said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • None of them knew that a space rock more than six miles wide was hurtling toward Earth and about to kill them all.
    — Dino Grandoni The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025

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