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hurl

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1. hurl - Noun

2. hurl - Verb

Meaning

To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

To twist or turn.

To hurl one's self; to go quickly.

To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. Richard Wright

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Francis Bacon

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. Homer

...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout counter of our dreams, we must not be afraid to hurl the fruit cocktail can of hope. Dave Barry

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