lurching in English

verb

1

make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger.

the car lurched forward

synonyms: stagger, stumble, wobble, sway, reel, roll, weave, pitch, totter, blunder, sway, reel, list, heel, rock, roll, pitch, toss, jerk, shake, flounder, swerve, teeter

verb

stagger, stumble, wobble, sway, reel, roll, weave, pitch, totter, blunder
sway, reel, list, heel, rock, roll, pitch, toss, jerk, shake, flounder, swerve, teeter
shift, pitch
keel, stagger, swag, careen, reel
prowl
skunk

Use "lurching" in a sentence

1. Its dark and lurching mast filled all my vision.

2. Bunched britches, lurching loins, hot haunches, call it what you want.

3. 7 This is the fire sale of a continent lurching from the farm to the factory.

4. Synonyms for Bucking include pitching, rocking, lurching, rolling, plunging, tossing, listing, motion, movement and wobbling

5. Screens were pulled, lurching and swaying on screaming castors, the curtains swelling like sheets in a squall.

6. It all seemed disjointed and unreal to Donaldson, as if his world had suddenly taken a lurching sideways step.

7. ‘The lintel twists with numerals, the four walls buckling with Crookbacked joists until ghosts hang homeless in the lurching levels.’ ‘We learn from these reports that Knupp had some physical deficiencies, for example that one of his legs was shorter than the other, that he was Crookbacked, sweated easily and had bad teeth.’