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Lurching is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Lurching in a sentence

Lurching | Lurch | Lurched | Lurcher | Lurches | Lurchers

Lurching meaning

present participle and gerund of lurch

Using Lurching

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of lurch
  • In the example corpus, lurching often appears in combinations such as: lurching from, and lurching.

Context around Lurching

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Lurching

  • In this selection, "lurching" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, hundreds, storm, despite, search, virtually and solo stand out and add context to how "lurching" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a constant lurching and collapsing and a lurching groove and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lurching" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lurching

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

We’ve seen lurching, going back and forth. (8 words)

Trump is lurching toward war with Iran, whether he wants to or not. (13 words)

The policy process is broken and incoherent, with the White House lurching from one position to another. (17 words)

We may have got used to their remarkable flexibility in recent years – lurching into the air, flying out of windows – but they still provide perspectives that could not be had otherwise, at least not without spending a fortune. (38 words)

A lurching groove and a deep bellow from Ignazio Simula capture a prototypical death doom style, but it's the inclusion of a cane flute and a change in guitar chords that signal a striking atmosphere. (36 words)

Someone comments on a swimmer’s floundering butterfly, which doesn’t have the graceful rise and fall of the others we see but rather looks like a constant lurching and collapsing into the water. (34 words)

Shouldn’t we hold ourselves accountable for ensuring our organizations execute faster on the backside of the pandemic than we did lurching through its early days? (26 words)

Example sentences (20)

It’s the carrying on with life — that lurching search for something close to normalcy — that can seem so fraught.

Off they flock in their hundreds, lurching virtually towards the discounted Gucci bags, Dior lipsticks and Prada purses via their laptop keyboards.

But no oh-no-ing here.) The sinister clatterings of harpsichord or xylophone, the glissando swoops of double bass and two harps, the lurching solo trombone: all always ear-catching, were especially vivid.

More to the point, Argentina has been lurching in and out of recession, hyperinflation, financial crisis, and default for the past four decades.

The transport secretary, Louise Haigh said: “Fourteen years without a workforce strategy has left our railways understaffed, reliant on voluntary working and lurching from one crisis to the next.

As we weather the storm, lurching from the whitecapped swell of one crisis to the next, there’s a growing fear that Europe doesn’t know how to steer towards safe harbour.

Indeed, despite lurching wildly from showbusiness satire and surreal flights of fancy to painfully raw depictions of mental illness, ‘s organized chaos soon becomes far more palatable and increasingly poignant.

It’s a spare song, with a honey-slow breakbeat coming in after the halfway point to give the track a lurching oomph.

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Shouldn’t we hold ourselves accountable for ensuring our organizations execute faster on the backside of the pandemic than we did lurching through its early days?

Someone comments on a swimmer’s floundering butterfly, which doesn’t have the graceful rise and fall of the others we see but rather looks like a constant lurching and collapsing into the water.

That’s why weekend reports that is “fascinated” by Donald Trump are so disturbing because it looks like the prime minister intends to follow his lead by lurching.

More than anything, Lalli would like to see city council find a longer term tax solution for business owners rather than lurching along year by year.

Trump is lurching toward war with Iran, whether he wants to or not.

A lurching groove and a deep bellow from Ignazio Simula capture a prototypical death doom style, but it's the inclusion of a cane flute and a change in guitar chords that signal a striking atmosphere.

A movement that exists only as a mob lurching from one artificially created common enemy to the next while giving money to grifters who make them feel legitimised and important.

In 2016, a Tesla owner in Utah said his Model S went rogue after he'd parked it, lurching ahead and impaling itself beneath a parked trailer.

The policy process is broken and incoherent, with the White House lurching from one position to another.

We may have got used to their remarkable flexibility in recent years – lurching into the air, flying out of windows – but they still provide perspectives that could not be had otherwise, at least not without spending a fortune.

We’ve seen lurching, going back and forth.

As the condition progresses, walking is characterized by a widened base and high stepping, as well as staggering and lurching from side to side.

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Common combinations with lurching

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lurching" in a sentence?
An example: "It’s the carrying on with life — that lurching search for something close to normalcy — that can seem so fraught." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lurching" from authentic English texts.
What does "lurching" mean?
Lurching means: present participle and gerund of lurch
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