Lurches is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lurches in a sentence
Lurches meaning
plural of lurch
Using Lurches
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of lurch
- In the example corpus, lurches often appears in combinations such as: lurches towards, lurches from.
Context around Lurches
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lurches
- In this selection, "lurches" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stomach, act, happily, towards, toward and ever stand out and add context to how "lurches" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as britain lurches towards brexit and as california lurches ever farther. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lurches" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lurches
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When the man comes to and lurches toward the woman, Navarro arrests him, not his assailant. (16 words)
In times of crisis, society naturally turns to its elected leaders as it lurches towards recovery. (16 words)
Now, 84 years later, the Leiser family are German once again as Britain lurches towards Brexit. (16 words)
And in a summer devoid of blockbusters, happily lurches in to take the spot of “triumphantly ridiculous thing I can plug into for a few hours to forget that the world outside is literally on fire”. (36 words)
That O.D., however factual, is merely one of many melodramatic turns taken by this tale, which lurches from one calamity – about which no real conclusions can be drawn, let alone emotional resonance – to another. (35 words)
All the more frustrating, then, when the film’s third act lurches into coming-of-age cliches, including a fade-to-black snog at a beachside bonfire. (27 words)
Example sentences (9)
But in that gut-wrenching, sickening instant when my stomach lurches, I can hardly fathom anything more personal.
When the man comes to and lurches toward the woman, Navarro arrests him, not his assailant.
All the more frustrating, then, when the film’s third act lurches into coming-of-age cliches, including a fade-to-black snog at a beachside bonfire.
And in a summer devoid of blockbusters, happily lurches in to take the spot of “triumphantly ridiculous thing I can plug into for a few hours to forget that the world outside is literally on fire”.
In times of crisis, society naturally turns to its elected leaders as it lurches towards recovery.
That O.D., however factual, is merely one of many melodramatic turns taken by this tale, which lurches from one calamity – about which no real conclusions can be drawn, let alone emotional resonance – to another.
Habs forward lurches from excellence to subpar play, while Bolts' Mikhail Sergachev struggles in his second year after a breakout season.
Look for that to be proposed statewide as California lurches ever farther to the Left and if forced to confront future debt.
Now, 84 years later, the Leiser family are German once again as Britain lurches towards Brexit.
Common combinations with lurches
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: