Example Sentences

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The movie advances, lurchingly, toward Ali’s recognition that this power may prove useful at work.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 7, 2019

The narrative moves lurchingly, with frequent inter-queen crosscuts that call attention to the choppy structure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2018

And the assistant lurchingly stuffed his stakes away.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

Amazed, incredulous, forgetting for an instant the field-glasses in his hand, he stared blankly from under squinting lids at the incredible object that crawled lurchingly through the shimmering, glittering desert atmosphere.

From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.

It lumbers along, lurchingly with stress, at a snail's pace; noted of all the world.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas