What is "lurching"

Usage examples of "lurching".

There were so many now paired off with wobbly-legged hatchlings, all creeling with hunger, lurching and falling towards the entrance.

There was nothing that could be done: sledgehammers and crowbars would have had but a minimal effect and the chances were high that people wielding those would have ended up, in very short order, over the side: on those lurching ice-rink decks footing would have been impossible to maintain.

Niall protested as a surge of power, unini tiated by Helva, sent him lurching into the door frame.

The buzzing he suddenly felt through his feet bothered him, so he moved, and found himself lurching about on the slick floor, struggling for balance.

With that she wheeled and, in a dan gerous imbalance, made a lurching exit.

Then she had `felt' her mother involved in the lurching and she became afraid that Mommy was mad at her.

Fax was lurching forward, trying to fall on him, to pin the lighter dragonman down for a final thrust.

Only one little green had not Im pressed, and she was mewling unhappily, butting one boy out of her way, lurching to another and peering up into his face, obviously searching for just the right lad.

Readis cried, lurching from port to starboard to look down at the darting bodies that surrounded the little ship.

Bracing himself against the wild lurching of the Ulysses, the Kapok Kid smoothed out the chart on the Captain's bunk.

Half the crew were leaning or lying against the racks, blue, pinched, shivering with cold, their breath hanging heavily in the chill air: the others were trudging heavily round and round the hoist, feet splashing in pools of water, lurching, stumbling with sheer exhaustion, gloved hands buried in their pockets, drawn, exhausted faces sunk on their chests.

That stumbling, lurching run from the forepeak, he dimly realised, had all but killed him.

Dodson braced against a sudden, violent pitch, but too late to prevent himself lurching into Riley.

By now I was pretty far gone, moving in a pain-filled nightmare: Hansen was in even worse shape, lurching and staggering around like a drunken man.

Astrid tried to half lead, half carry him away, but though his emaciation had reached a degree where he could scarcely be any heavier than the girl, if at all, his uncontrollable lurching made her stagger across the pavement.