Used in a Sentence

hurdling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hurdling.

Editorial note

I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.

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Quick take

hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hurdling gathered in one view.

noun

hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land

noun

(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hurdling.

noun

hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land

noun

(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.

Example sentences

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I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.

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We are hurdling towards a brave new world where only 10% of humans have to work, and the other 90% form the bureaucracy on top.

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Us frogs are beyond the boiling point, hurdling towards the inevitable.

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Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.

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It’s the only time in my life I have felt the fact that we’re just standing on a rock hurdling through space.

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(A few more details: there was some harassment later that night, busting my door knob by hurdling a shopping cart?

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You know a 737 is responsible for ensuring the survival of human bodies hurdling through the air at hundreds of miles per hour at altitudes higher than Mount Everest?

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Now we have humans inside a vessel hurdling through space at 0.01 c, in addition to the pre-existing humans in a planet swirling through space.

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I'm willing to bet you're one of the people that doesn't believe we are hurdling towards a mass extinction event even while the oceans are boiling.

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I tried getting Midjourney to generate an image of a boy doing a high jump - and no matter what I tried - the boy is hurdling over the bar rather than high jumping over it.

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And I think a truck full of hard drives hurdling down the highway has had greater bandwidth than most of the world's networking for a while now.

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You're hurdling through the sky at 600mph in a vehicle which is safer than driving a car, at a cost less than a half-week's pay for the median income in the US.

Quote examples

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It's like saying "The bus is still hurdling down the road at highway speeds, therefore there is not hobo vomit in the back seat."

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Edit: ah, I see it's "hurtling." Although I guess in both cases you have to dodge larger and larger geographic regions to claim success, so a bit like hurdling.

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Yes, I naively wrote RIM an email about the ease of onboarding developers on Android and iOS, compared to the hurdles that needed hurdling on Blackberry OS, even before "BB10".

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“Hurdling trenches, crawling over shell craters, and walking through forests unhalted by intense gunfire, the tanks cannot be stopped by anything less than a direct hit from shells of considerable caliber,” reports The Ogden Standard of October 21, 1916, 4 p.m.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hurdling in a sentence?

I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.

What does hurdling mean?

hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land

What part of speech is hurdling?

hurdling is commonly used as noun.