What is "lurches"

Usage examples of "lurches".

She flicks the reins, and the cart lurches forward over the hardened clay.

In time, through turns, lurches, and one fall-which leaves a damp stain on his leathers from his left leg to his shoulder-he glides, strides, and puffs his way through the snow and thicker underbrush until he can once again see the lower line of trees that marks the road.

Her left hand lifts itself from the carved chair arm as if independent of the rest of her body, then falls back on the arm of the chair as the deck lurches under her.

Instead, he lurches forward and grasps her elbows, fumbling but dragging her arms down until his fingers twine around her wrists.

One barbarian topples from his saddle, and another lurches sideways into the mount of the rider beside him.

The gelding lurches, and Lorn has to fight to hold his seat even as he slashes down with the chaos-aided sabre to cut aside one shield-bearer, and then another.

Then he lurches after them, nearly getting himself run down by a flywheel-powered tourist bus.

Two arms and a bundle of rubbery something covered in umber hair lurches out from the handrail and casually grabs hold of the priceless historical relic, then clambers inside and squats on top of the dummy wearing Al Sheperd's age-cracked space suit.

A bald man with a straggly ginger beard and an arrow through his right arm lurches onto the road.

He lurches sideways, the current threatening to rip the regulator and mask from his face.