lurch in English
the boat gave a violent lurch , and he missed his footing
Some of the ‘cool’ people will leave you in the lurch or betray your friends; at least one of the people you can't stand will prove to be a loyal, courageous, and inspiring friend.
Use "lurch" in a sentence
1. My stomach gave an involuntary lurch.
2. John felt a lurch of dismay.
3. Her heart gave an unsteady lurch.
4. I wouldn't leave her in the lurch.
5. Turn that frown upside down, Lurch.
6. He resigned and left me in the lurch.
7. Poor Sylvia got left in the lurch.
8. George quitted his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
9. Street, Hollywood and Detrait are also left in the lurch.
10. They will not leave you in the lurch.
11. 16 His curt tone made her stomach lurch.
12. The unfortunate natives were left in the lurch.
13. You mustn't leave them in the lurch like that.
14. Tom quit his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
15. You wouldn't leave an old friend in the lurch, surely?
16. The bandit catch Bill, and Tom leave him in the lurch.
17. Also left in the lurch: Wall Street , Hollywood, and Detroit.
18. Bill quit his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
19. The pager company shut down Tuesday, leaving 2000 customers in the lurch.
20. They have fled the field and left their constituents in the lurch.
21. UPS workers went on strike today, leaving thousands of customers in the lurch.
22. But I won't leave you in the lurch even if that time comes.
23. She felt she had been left in the lurch by all her colleagues.
24. He got what he wanted and left me in the lurch as a scapegoat.
25. The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.
26. How can we leave them in the lurch, in their teens,[sentence dictionary] like that?
27. It's the same design as the medallion, she thought, with a little lurch of excitement.
28. I had to calm down, and not lurch around in traffic like a maniac.
29. No mum has the rod to pud a stub to the lurch of Amotion.
30. Now that John is poor and unfortunate, his friends have left him in the lurch.
31. 11 synonyms for Careen: sway, tilt, rock, keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag, wobble, tilt, shift
32. She had never got over that chap who left her in the lurch all those years ago.
33. Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastic transformation, let alone a dictatorship.
34. Oh, Mr. Fox, shouted the cat. You and your hundred tricks are left in the lurch.
35. I'm sorry to leave you in the lurch but I can't do the presentation with you this afternoon.
36. Soon she would know ... But when she finally arrived at the little mews her heart gave a lurch.
37. 25 The shuttle trembled violently as it accelerated along the runway. With a lurch, the vibration ceased.
38. Each of those 23 games could be a rung up a ladder or lurch down a blind alley .
39. Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedral lurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory.
40. There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
41. Centos is becoming a rolling Linux distribution, which leaves businesses depending on Centos for a stable server or embedded operating system in the lurch.
42. Careen used to mean (1) to turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning or repairs, and (2) to lurch or sway, especially when in motion
43. Once they are locked together – a move that ends with a gentle lurch – it takes half an hour or so to equalise the pressure and finally open hatches that separate the two crews.
44. We are pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out; we are persecuted, but not left in the lurch; we are thrown down, but not destroyed.”
45. But it has kept long-term bond yields lower than they were in January, despite a fresh lurch towards US deficit financing, while forcing up asset prices and pressing investors to take on more risk.
46. To lurch or swerve while in motion: "The Tasmanian boat was a wreck the stove had broken free of its mounting and was Careening about with every wave" (Bryan Burrough).
47. “Abductor lurch”, this type of gait pattern is a compensa-tory mechanism for weak or damaged hip Abductors and is characterized by tilting of the pelvis towards the unaffected side during the stance phase of gait
48. In Paul’s own case, he realistically admitted: “We are pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out; we are persecuted, but not left in the lurch; we are thrown down, but not destroyed.”
49. + 8 We are pressed in every way,+ but not cramped beyond movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out;+ 9 we are persecuted, but not left in the lurch;+ we are thrown down,+ but not destroyed.
50. But it is quite another when the Court forces that choice upon society through its creation of Atextual constitutional rights and its ungenerous interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause, leaving those with religious objections in the lurch," wrote Thomas.