If you hit that bump, the bicycle will lurch to one side and fall over. From LearnThat.org.
The lurch is a miserable place, desolate, and filled with doors and paths and roads that all lead nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from the Lurch] Reference
Comparing Hillary’s lurch to the right (and landing in the center) is comparable to McCains’ lurch from the center to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere] Reference
With him this was the only time when the "lurch" was lacking. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
She gave a kind of lurch and kept walking more briskly, when she saw me straightening up from the dirty work. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge at the Nudist Camp] Reference
A few years in the company of "lurch" and "spike" is where they belong. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
To bring the reader out of their expectation, to create a kind of lurch or surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
With a kind of lurch he interposed his big frame between Sir Alexander and the object of his wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Allan and the Holy Flower] Reference
The raccoons also have a really weird way of moving, they kind of lurch along in a kind of Egor/Quasimodo way!. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The more imaginative among them were calculating the exact kind of lurch taken by the unstable raft that would mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
So if this is a so-called lurch to the right it is one that has been planned right from the beginning of Cameron’s leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
There are a number of reasons for the lurch forward. From Wordnik.com. [Back At The Table] Reference
"We trained them, and then they leave us in the lurch.". From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Loyalty] Reference
Barbour says that we've undergone a "lurch to the left.". From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
He is the symbol of the GOP's lurch to the religious right. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Trapped] Reference
Democrats are likely to lurch from one approach to another. From Wordnik.com. [The Blame Bush Strategy Won't Work] Reference
With a lurch in his chest, he heard the cash register ring. From Wordnik.com. [Changing a Flat] Reference
Still, history should make any Labour M.P. nervous of a leftward lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Next: Harriet Who?] Reference
A federal court ruling yesterday has left some scientists in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Researchers Stunned By Halt To Stem Cell Funding] Reference
For a comment or spokesman, there was nobody, so I was left in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'] Reference
Waver though he might, Lula is unlikely to lurch to the left ideologically. From Wordnik.com. [The Free-Spending Lula] Reference
But that doesn't excuse Allen's leaving his public shareholders in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Scalped At Ticketmaster?] Reference
Such arrogance finally cost Thaksin his job and left the economy in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [The Mood Swing Meter] Reference
He would start a sentence, break off the thought and lurch into something else. From Wordnik.com. [Alone At The Top] Reference
Israel continues to lurch and stagger in the darkened bog of tribal chauvinism. From Wordnik.com. [Ahmed Moor: Israel Cannot be Both Jewish and Democratic] Reference
As I get to the door, someone from behind me grabs my arm and I lurch backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Leather and Something Like Infidelity] Reference
Brown's populist persona is the latest lurch for the former governor of California. From Wordnik.com. ['Is This A Bunch Of Lollipops?'] Reference
He doesn't want his state left in the lurch should Washington renege on its promises. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: What To Do With Nuclear Waste?] Reference
It is alien to the American temper, which tends to lurch between isolationism and idealism. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Superpower] Reference
I gently ask my instructor as I lurch forward in this 16-ton, 40-foot-long Country Coach RV. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test: I Eat Suv's For Lunch!] Reference
Until Washington gets serious about reforms, we will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Garrett Johnson: Fairy Tales and History Rhymes] Reference
Bush's rightward lurch in South Carolina "made me uncomfortable and I told him that," says Betts. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddy Who Has Bush's Ear] Reference
He was shocked and scared and he punched the gas then the brake causing the old Montego to lurch. From Wordnik.com. [I See Your Face Before Me] Reference
At five seconds I felt a definite lift, a lurch forward that announced itself rather unexpectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardboard Ship] Reference
A slip on an icy patch, a lurch off the road to avoid an oncoming truck -- and you could cash it all in. From Wordnik.com. ['Hell In A Cold Place'] Reference
But last month the USDA scrapped the program, sending home hundreds of foreign docs and leaving rural clinics in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Ultimately, it's unclear whether the retro trend is a resumption of old national habits, or merely a temporary lurch backward. From Wordnik.com. [Comrade Putin Knows Best] Reference
All in all, it was high drama in the Philippines, a country that often seems to lurch from the ridiculous to the sublime and back again. From Wordnik.com. [PEOPLE POWER II] Reference
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