hurl

Object

• insult: May you find the response to an insult hurled at you in a dispute.
• grenade: The Marines shot them at close range and hurled grenades into the kitchen and bathroom, survivors and neighbors said later.
• thunderbolt: The thunder spirits had even less success in trying to hurl thunderbolts at him.
• projectile: The gun uses magnetic coils to create a pulse of energy which can hurl a projectile at more than two miles per second.
• javelin: First of all, the charioteers drive all over the field hurling javelins.
• abuse: The whole strand is little more than an excuse for Gordon Ramsay to hurl verbal abuse at people for no good reason.

Preposition: through

window: It looks, confusingly, not unlike a brick being hurled through a gold plate-glass window.

Preposition: into

air: A series of further massive explosions rock the ship as debris and flames are hurled into the air.

Modifies a noun

• abuse: You'll also be asked to shout, scream and hurl abuse, so your lungs and vocal chords will get a workout.
• insult: Don't women ever shout at their husbands, call them names, hurl insults?

Modifying Another Word

• accidentally: The scientists out of panic accidentally hurling the wrong person back into the past.
• back: Under the latter's onslaught the enemy was hurled back from the city for several miles.
• then: I took a few steps back then hurled myself at the door with all my weight.
• there: One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: " Aren't you the Christ?
• also: Of course, it can also hurl them apart.
• not: When he was not hurling himself at the entire Hearts defense he was back defending.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: The farce of Florentine politics, its victims hurled down into the dark boiling river of death or exile.
• around: I stared resolutely at the floor, but each bend and curve felt like we were being hurled around in some mad fairground ride.
• out: The streets were littered with the corpses which were hurled out of the windows.

Followed by a transitive particle

down: He was hurling down a staircase in absolute darkness.