Example Sentences

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I emerged into the sunshine to see a group of boys goofing around on the lush castle lawns, using their hurleys to bat around a ball much the way Americans might toss a Frisbee together.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018

On the Connemara side, players had sat with hurleys in hand as their wiry manager, a school psychologist named Rory O Bearra, encouraged in the language of Irish:

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015

But the method in which hurleys are used suggests instead that golf is a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys.

From Time Magazine Archive

The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys."

From Time Magazine Archive