Hurling is an English word with synonyms like moving. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hurling in a sentence
Related words
Hurling meaning
- The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
- An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
- A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
Synonyms of Hurling
Using Hurling
- The main meaning on this page is: The act by which something is hurled or thrown. | An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar. | A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
- Useful related words include: moving, field game.
- In the example corpus, hurling often appears in combinations such as: senior hurling, hurling championship, the hurling.
Context around Hurling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hurling
- In this selection, "hurling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, senior, roscommon, flagship, team, insults and board stand out and add context to how "hurling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a silver hurling event there and all ireland hurling final. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hurling" sits close to words such as aspiration, azure and bauchi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hurling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hurling is in our DNA here in Limerick. (8 words)
Kilkenny and Limerick battle it out in the All-Ireland hurling final. (12 words)
Do you know how to disagree without making it personal and hurling insults? (13 words)
He has immersed himself into life in County Kildare for longer than that having utilised his hurling skills playing for Naas GAA and the Kildare county senior hurling team but he still gets down regularly to his home county to visit family and friends. (44 words)
In order to upgrade the pitch at Pairc na Darach to make it suitable for playing hurling and camogie, substantial investment is required – over €30,000 will be required, of which a substantial amount has already been invested by the club. (41 words)
Galway’s hurling managerial crisis shows no signs of abating as the hurling board have asked officials to approach Francis Forde and Noel Larkin to reconsider their decisions to step away from the managerial appointment process. (36 words)
Do you know how to disagree without making it personal and hurling insults? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
O’Halloran and his management team went on to thank Roscommon Hurling Board for affording them the opportunity to manage and coach the county’s flagship hurling team.
He led St Fechin’s to the last two Louth senior hurling championship titles and was a really passionate hurling man.
He has immersed himself into life in County Kildare for longer than that having utilised his hurling skills playing for Naas GAA and the Kildare county senior hurling team but he still gets down regularly to his home county to visit family and friends.
Galway’s hurling managerial crisis shows no signs of abating as the hurling board have asked officials to approach Francis Forde and Noel Larkin to reconsider their decisions to step away from the managerial appointment process.
On January 31, 2009, the school's Hurling club made athletic history by defeating Stanford in the first collegiate hurling match ever played on American soil.
Cllr Tony Harris responded: “If you were to walk around the town and think of the most inaccessible, hazardous place to have a silver hurling event there’s that beach right there.
Declan Browne, one of Tipperary greatest ever footballers, and Jimmy Barry Murphy, an All-Ireland football and hurling winner with Cork, have been inducted into the Munster GAA Hall of Fame.
Do you know how to disagree without making it personal and hurling insults?
For a start, he knows where to find the sliotar (or hurling ball) that brings back strong memories of her GAA-obsessed husband and son.
Greater Regional First Vice Chairperson of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joana Frances Adda, has called on delegates of the party to refrain from hurling insults at Presidential and Parliamentary aspirants.
Hurling is in our DNA here in Limerick.
In order to upgrade the pitch at Pairc na Darach to make it suitable for playing hurling and camogie, substantial investment is required – over €30,000 will be required, of which a substantial amount has already been invested by the club.
It means a resumption of the biggest rivalry in Carlow hurling on the biggest stage.
I went in with the Kerry senior hurling team when I got back and that’s it from there.
Kilkenny and Limerick battle it out in the All-Ireland hurling final.
My tics started acting up and I lost control of my hands, and I couldn't hold the glass without potentially accidentally hurling it at someone.
Poilievre also mixes in bombast at rallies, hurling insults at the 51-year-old Trudeau’s government and faceless “gatekeepers” — even municipal officials who approve housing permits.
Samuel Clarke, 29, had already been jailed in May last year for hurling a bottle of Prosecco at his abused girlfriend and breaking her tooth in half.
Showing no evidence, the national ombudsman is hurling accusations against supposed gunmen threatening company employees.
So nobody should be hurling optimism around like a dance partner at a drunken ceilidh in Scotland these days.
Common combinations with hurling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- senior hurling 12×
- hurling championship 10×
- the hurling 10×
- hurling final 10×
- and hurling 9×
- hurling and 9×
- all-ireland hurling 9×
- of hurling 9×
- by hurling 7×
- hurling rocks 6×