Hurtle
verb
To move swiftly and directly.
The baseball hurtled towards the batter.
verb
To throw something with a lot of force.
The protester hurtled a brick at the shop window.
verb
To move swiftly and directly.
The baseball hurtled towards the batter.
verb
To throw something with a lot of force.
The protester hurtled a brick at the shop window.
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Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Use 'hurtle' when something moves very fast, indicating speed.
I ducked as the rock hurtled past my head.
Pro Tip 2/3Uncontrolled Motion
'Hurtle' often suggests a lack of control or direction.
The car hurtled down the hill after the brakes failed.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Describing objects as 'hurtling' can evoke a sense of urgency or danger.
The thunderstorm's winds made the debris hurtle alarmingly.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Use 'hurtle' when something moves very fast, indicating speed.
I ducked as the rock hurtled past my head.
Pro Tip 2/3Uncontrolled Motion
'Hurtle' often suggests a lack of control or direction.
The car hurtled down the hill after the brakes failed.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Describing objects as 'hurtling' can evoke a sense of urgency or danger.
The thunderstorm's winds made the debris hurtle alarmingly.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Use 'hurtle' when something moves very fast, indicating speed.
I ducked as the rock hurtled past my head.
Pro Tip 2/3Uncontrolled Motion
'Hurtle' often suggests a lack of control or direction.
The car hurtled down the hill after the brakes failed.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Describing objects as 'hurtling' can evoke a sense of urgency or danger.
The thunderstorm's winds made the debris hurtle alarmingly.
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Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...
think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling and I'm not comfortable with that and so because of that belief that I think needs to be burst I'm here to send us all hurtling back to the truth and here's the truth doodling is an
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Charles Elachi: The...
it'll already be over. We have to build large amounts of autonomy into the spacecraft so that it can land itself safely. EDL is this immense, technically challenging problem. It's about getting a spacecraft that's hurtling through deep space and using all this bag of tricks to somehow figure out
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Three ways the universe...
and as they clumped together their gravitational pull would get even stronger. Stars too would hurtle together and collide. Temperatures would rise as space would get tighter and tighter. The size of the universe would plummet until everything compressed into such a small space
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Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
I think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling. And I'm not comfortable with that. And so because of that belief that I think needs to be burst, I'm here to send us all hurtling back to the truth.
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How does your body know...
and even the effects of drugs on our bodies. The field of sciences studying these changes is called chronobiology. Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us.
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How to build a greener,...
circular economy otherwise how will we avoid climate change how will we ensure ecological security how will we achieve sustainable development but despite all that agreement we are still hurtling towards planetary boundaries on greenhouse gas
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Why is this painting so...
But in this context, the style offers a profoundly overwhelming view of violence, destruction, and casualties. Multiple perspectives only compound the horror on display– sending the eyes hurtling around the frame in a futile hunt for peace.
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Cheetah Problems PIPE Five...
to leave the stalking cheetah and goes so far away that all I can see is the antelope when the cheetah suddenly hurtles into view I've got a split second to find it in my lens and start filming
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The End of the World PIPE...
imagine if deep within the asteroid belt a collision just like the one that created the Baptistina cluster has already happened and that right now after tens of millions of years hurtling
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Mars Gets Ready for Its...
those crunchy noises they are the sounds recorded by a microphone aboard perseverance picking up the whir of the rover's thermal system as it hurtles through deep space
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Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...
think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling and I'm not comfortable with that and so because of that belief that I think needs to be burst I'm here to send us all hurtling back to the truth and here's the truth doodling is an
Video examples
Charles Elachi: The...
it'll already be over. We have to build large amounts of autonomy into the spacecraft so that it can land itself safely. EDL is this immense, technically challenging problem. It's about getting a spacecraft that's hurtling through deep space and using all this bag of tricks to somehow figure out
Video examples
Three ways the universe...
and as they clumped together their gravitational pull would get even stronger. Stars too would hurtle together and collide. Temperatures would rise as space would get tighter and tighter. The size of the universe would plummet until everything compressed into such a small space
Video examples
Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
I think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling. And I'm not comfortable with that. And so because of that belief that I think needs to be burst, I'm here to send us all hurtling back to the truth.
Video examples
How does your body know...
and even the effects of drugs on our bodies. The field of sciences studying these changes is called chronobiology. Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us.
Video examples
How to build a greener,...
circular economy otherwise how will we avoid climate change how will we ensure ecological security how will we achieve sustainable development but despite all that agreement we are still hurtling towards planetary boundaries on greenhouse gas
Video examples
Why is this painting so...
But in this context, the style offers a profoundly overwhelming view of violence, destruction, and casualties. Multiple perspectives only compound the horror on display– sending the eyes hurtling around the frame in a futile hunt for peace.
Video examples
Cheetah Problems PIPE Five...
to leave the stalking cheetah and goes so far away that all I can see is the antelope when the cheetah suddenly hurtles into view I've got a split second to find it in my lens and start filming
Video examples
The End of the World PIPE...
imagine if deep within the asteroid belt a collision just like the one that created the Baptistina cluster has already happened and that right now after tens of millions of years hurtling
Video examples
Mars Gets Ready for Its...
those crunchy noises they are the sounds recorded by a microphone aboard perseverance picking up the whir of the rover's thermal system as it hurtles through deep space
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Elizabeth Debicki
Australian Actress
I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
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Jon Lovett
American Producer
They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.
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Gail Honeyman
Scottish Writer
I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!
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Ewan McGregor
Scottish Actor
For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
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Kerry Greenwood
Australian Author
Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.
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Leslie Mann
American Actor
Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
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Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Russian Poet
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
Why, if we're hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling?
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Elizabeth Debicki
Australian Actress
I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
Quote examples
Jon Lovett
American Producer
They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.
Quote examples
Gail Honeyman
Scottish Writer
I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!
Quote examples
Ewan McGregor
Scottish Actor
For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
Quote examples
Kerry Greenwood
Australian Author
Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.
Quote examples
Leslie Mann
American Actor
Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
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Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Quote examples
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian Poet
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Quote examples
Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
Why, if we're hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling?
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