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

At the first curve—in a heart beat of time; too fast for him to avert it—the car had hurtled the road and plowed into the embankment.

From Earth Alert! by Neville, Kris