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• v  move with or as if with a rushing sound
  The cars hurtled by
• v  make a thrusting forward movement
• v  throw forcefully

• Dark clouds hurtle across the sky; diagonal strips of shadow fall like knife scars on every face; steam rises from the streets and rolls off the most innocuous front porch.
• It doesn't hurtle, it ambles.
• No plot, no set, no Look-Ma-I'm-a-swan costumes--just a stageful of virtuoso dancers who hurtle through angular steps and abstract poses that evoke a limitless universe of emotions.

• lunge
• hurl
• thrust
• cast

News & Articles

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• US Open Golf 2013 Predictions: Breaking Down the Experts' Picks
  You want U.S. Open picks? We've got 'em. Here , here and here . U.S. Open picks are everywhere as we hurtle toward the 113th edition of our national championship faster than the grounds crew scrambles around Merion trying to make the course playable for Thursday's first round.  What of the picks? What are the talking heads, eager prognosticators and twitchy typists saying collectively? Where is ...
  June 12, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Julia Gillard in Sydney Morning Herald
  I do not support the idea of a 'big Australia' with arbitrary targets of, say, 'a 40 million-strong Australia' or 'a 36 million-strong Australia',she said. "Australia should not hurtle down the track towards a big population. We need to...
• Frances Crook in Politics.co.uk
  Ms Crook concluded: "Until we address the fact that many of the people in custody simply shouldn't be there, the prison system will continue to hurtle towards the abyss."
• Thomas Lauderdale in Wall Street Journal (blog)
  It was never the kind of band where you'd get stoned and pile into a van and hurtle down the highway,says Mr. Lauderdale, who recently joined the board of the Oregon Symphony.