Sentence examples for hurling onto from inspiring English sources

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On the Upper East Side, wind ripped a scaffold from a building and sent it hurling onto a parked car, fire officials said.

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Twenty boxes of Domino's Pizza were hurled onto a countertop.

Flames curled out of the side windows and hurled onto the roof, and a column of smoke gushed into the sky.

(Besides the civil engineering, the dredging is an event of great excitement for sea gulls: they feast on an all-they-can-eat buffet of clams and fish suddenly hurled onto beaches).

Rock 'n' roll wouldn't be the same without the whoops and hollers, the pounding barrelhouse piano chords and swooping glissandos that Little Richard hurled onto his singles in the 1950's.

(Sinagra) LITTLE RICHARD (Wednesday) Rock 'n' roll wouldn't be the same without the whoops and hollers, the pounding barrelhouse piano chords and swooping glissandos that Little Richard hurled onto his singles in the 1950's.

In 1964, (a year in which Saints would win their ninth of 11-straight premierships) this writer had his red-and-white beanie snatched from his 14-year-old head by a trio of urchins and hurled onto the top of a toilet block at Redfern.

Back in 1973, it would have been reasonable to ask Pynchon, "Can you fake crazy?" There could be no doubt about his idiosyncratic genius, his brilliant pictorial scene-setting or the daring of the unanswerable questions and accusations he hurled onto the page like a carnival knife-thrower who didn't care if his blade impaled his target.

Mehr tracks a mostly bloodless trail of misused friends, abused managers, sabotaged sets, games of dodge-knife — per Tommy Stinson's description, "like dodgeball . . . with knives" — furniture launched from windows, vomit hurled onto the ceiling, cheated-on girlfriends, punked producers, and fired agents.

The toilet paper was cascading at a recent preview of "The Rocky Horror Show," hurled onto the stage by members of the audience, and the musical's cross-dressing star was sounding more like a substitute schoolteacher than the mad scientist he portrays.

And then the last true Neanderthal died yet another species hurled onto the ash heap of extinction.

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