hurtle
verb (used without object)
to rush violently; move with great speed.
had hurtled
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past perfectof hurtle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When the dust settled, literally, he saw a car had hurtled off Roosevelt and taken out the whole front of his shop.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
Colonel Collins, who had begun flying in 1952, had hurtled through the skies as a test pilot and orbited the Earth 43 times in the Gemini 10 capsule.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2021
Abdullah’s Saudi Arabia had hurtled from tribal pastoralism to advanced capitalism in little more than a generation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
When he emerged from the bathroom in the morning, with just enough room to sidestep the refrigerator that had hurtled from the kitchen, he was relieved to find the concrete roof intact.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2010
They turned to inspect the object against which Rick had hurtled and found that it was the still-sound strap for a beam, probably made of wrought iron.
From The Wailing Octopus by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
