Example Sentences

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The Julio hype train took off on the first day of spring training and has been hurtling across the internet ever since, fueled by a magnetic Cactus League performance from the 21-year-old wunderkind.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

Baumgartner has been hurtling down mountains for long enough to know when he has it and when he doesn’t.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022

For more than a year now, Libya has been hurtling toward a long-awaited presidential election scheduled for Friday, the 70th anniversary of the country’s independence.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2021

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which launched just months before Pluto’s demotion in 2006, has been hurtling toward the dwarf planet and its moons and sending photos back to Earth.

From Time • Jul. 14, 2015

It’s like all of us on this train are part of an Einstein relativity experiment—every American has been hurtling through space at the speed of light except us.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed