Crossword clues for hurtling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurtle \Hur"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hurtled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling.] [OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.]
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To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
Together hurtled both their steeds.
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To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.
--Spenser.Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.
--R. L. Stevenson. -
To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
--Shak.The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground.
--Mrs. Browning.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something being hurtled or thrown. vb. (present participle of hurtle English)
WordNet
adj. moving or moved with great speed; "the hurtling express train"
Usage examples of "hurtling".
That told the LSO that he had the meatball in sight, confirmed that his aircraft was a Tomcat so that the arrestor cables could be properly adjusted for the hurtling weight of the aircraft, and that his fuel was reading five thousand pounds.
The two incoming MiGs flashed past the damaged Tomcat, hurtling toward the south before beginning a broad, sweeping turn which would bring them in behind Batman and Malibu.
Still hurtling toward the SAM, Batman rolled the Tomcat right until he was canopy down, then brought the stick back and headed for the ground.
Just as they were ready to start a big gum-nut came hurtling down and hit Blinky right on his nose.
Behind, on the parapet of the palace, Bozo stared after the hurtling craft.
No one knew when it would end, because as long as man set hurtling engines on ribbons of steel rail, derailments were inevitable.
Springing to pursuit, The Shadow saw the dwarfish body hurtling to the roof of the next building, two stories below.
Instead, each individual vessel was blasting at maximum for the position in space in which it would form one unit of a formation englobing at a distance of light-years the entire Solarian System, and each of those hurtling hundreds of ships was literally combing all circumambient space with its furiously-driven detector beams.
With a mighty dive, Foon Koo came hurtling out of space, straight for the rolling form upon the floor.
Here he was, hurtling downward with thirty miles of void beneath him, and Glair probably dead already, and a planet of hostile strangers waiting for him.
Oh, sure, air travel seems dangerous to the ignorant layperson, in as much as it involves hurtling through the air seven miles straight up trapped inside an object the size of a suburban ranch home in total defiance of all known laws of physics.
A griffon darted in for the kill, hurtling toward Lockram as he feinted away from the coach.
Wolf Two, scrambling to get out of the path of the hurtling juggernaut, triggered his jets in the wrong direction, accelerating directly into it.
Instead, she gathered Cirrus beneath her and sent herself hurtling up toward the oncoming litters.
A savage, bestial growl escaped bis throat as he increased his speed, hurtling through the sky over the towering palazzo with its many stories and turrets and battlements.