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Sentence count:100+3Posted:2017-03-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: pitchrockrollswaytiptoppletosstumbleSimilar words: in the lurchchurchurchinpurchasepurchase orderpurchase requisitionlurelurkMeaning: [lɜrtʃ /lɜː-]  n. 1. an unsteady uneven gait 2. a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) 3. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) 4. the act of moving forward suddenly. v. 1. walk as if unable to control one's movements 2. move abruptly 3. move slowly and unsteadily 4. loiter about, with no apparent aim 5. defeat by a lurch. 
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61 Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedral lurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory.
62 Something undoes with a little lurch, rose Of blood opening in the body Body that pumps these rivers of the world -.
63 With a sudden lurch, the phone slams down and a great hand goes out in greeting.Sentence dictionary
64 It's the same design as the medallion, she thought, with a little lurch of excitement.
65 "I felt a lurch and then a big bump," one resident said of the earthquake.
66 Al Gore may well have lost in November because he tried to lurch away from the muzzy centrism his boss had perfected.
67 But treat the Rolls with respect and it won't lurch or roll to excess.
68 I feel dreadful and lurch forward to headbutt the door.
69 There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
70 The man opposite me yanks the communication cord,(Sentencedict.com) and we lurch to a halt.
71 All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis.
72 An unskilled smallholder is likely to lurch from crisis to crisis.
73 You mustn't leave them in the lurch like that.
74 I wonder what he made that lurch for.
75 But with one small lurch he could break it.
76 He resigned and left me in the lurch.
77 The unfortunate natives were left in the lurch.
78 They will not leave you in the lurch.
79 Poor Sylvia got left in the lurch.
80 Tom quit his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
81 There are some solid underlying reasons for the upward lurch in the price of raw sugar.
82 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.
83 Now that John is poor and unfortunate, his friends have left him in the lurch.
84 Bill quit his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
85 The plane is shudder and lurch in the most terrifying manner.
86 Also left in the lurch: Wall Street , Hollywood, and Detroit.
87 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.
88 As panic sets in, bond yields lurch sickeningly upwards and fear spreads to shares and currencies.
89 The earth we stood on had given a sudden lurch.
90 Oh, Mr. Fox, shouted the cat. You and your hundred tricks are left in the lurch.
More similar words: in the lurchchurchurchinpurchasepurchase orderpurchase requisitionlurelurkslurluridallureblurtsourcesplurgefailureLurkingoutsourceresourcesourcingpluralitypluralismbifurcateresourcefulhuman resourcesnatural resourcesperchmarchtorchbirchporch
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