The hurling water. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to hurl insults at the umpire. From Dictionary.com.
Americans know no shame (thank you Oprah) in hurling their stuff on us. From Wordnik.com. [Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'] Reference
'I don't like the idea of hurling my clan to doom on one battle.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
I agree with you that name hurling is infantile and I shall try to refrain from it. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
About a month after their departure, Ms. Costa says, Mr. Santos called hurling threats. From Wordnik.com. [How the Subprime Mess] Reference
I wasn't thrilled about the notion of hurling my sword into the shadows of the foliage. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference
Speaking of soccer, I like to think I was among the first, maybe the first, to call hurling "The Beautiful Game.". From Wordnik.com. [Do hard-edged crime series get harder as they progress?] Reference
The main action in the hurling is the much anticipated, and twice-cancelled, match between Tipperary and Kilkenny. From Wordnik.com. [RTÉ News] Reference
He died hurling insults and curses at his accusers. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Rotondaro: A Message to Right-Wing Defenders and Left-Wing Critics of the Catholic Church] Reference
But no one's hurling the epithet "couch potato" these days. From Wordnik.com. [Nesting Instincts] Reference
Peter went first, hurling himself into the blue plastic tube. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Price: When Is Too Old for Waterslides?] Reference
"Liar!" she screamed, hurling a pair of headphones at the policeman's head. From Wordnik.com. [Reliving Bloody October] Reference
Slater did both, first hurling expletives and then absconding down the chute. From Wordnik.com. [How To Head Off The Steven Slater In Your Organization] Reference
Starbucks staff said Rosenthal incited the face-off by hurling profanities at the staffer. From Wordnik.com. [English Professor Kicked Out Of Starbucks For Ordering 'Incorrectly,' Cursing At Barista] Reference
Last week 50 neo-Nazis scaled the fence surrounding the dorm, hurling rocks and racist slogans. From Wordnik.com. [When Neo-Nazis Run Free] Reference
Politicians in the central Punjab province have been hurling similar allegations at each other. From Wordnik.com. [A State in Perennial Crisis] Reference
Her article has the blogosphere frenetic, with many bloggers hurling critiques at psychoanalysis. From Wordnik.com. [Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Therapy Lives and the Lives of Therapists] Reference
By standing up, we forfeited speed but freed two limbs for fashion-ing weapons and hurling things. From Wordnik.com. [Hurling Through History] Reference
We're talking thirty million dollars for two campaigns -- and he's not finished hurling money at his dream. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Langlois: $9,118,582.14 ... and Counting] Reference
Soon they were smashing car windows and shopfronts, dodging tear-gas canisters and hurling stones at police. From Wordnik.com. [Rage In The Streets] Reference
The two -- and their wives -- publicly quarreled over their respective shares, hurling insults at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Havel's Exit Strategy] Reference
Commentators on the left and right have been hurling invective at the common core movement since its inception. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Hold the Center] Reference
At first, entire families shouted words of support to young men hurling handmade grenades at their enemies in the street. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The Cross-Fire] Reference
Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. tried to make it rain on protesters in the state capitol by hurling money at them. From Wordnik.com. [Espada Throws Money At Protesters (VIDEO)] Reference
Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. tried to "make it rain" on protesters in the state capitol by hurling money at them. From Wordnik.com. [Espada Throws Money At Protesters (VIDEO)] Reference
"Many are escaping, either by hurling themselves into the sea on a raft or arranging a marriage of convenience with foreigners.". From Wordnik.com. [Island of Failed Promises] Reference
Three years ago a male northern cardinal, or Cardinalis cardinalis, began hurling himself against the windows of our solar home. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Broke One of My 'Cardinal' Rules] Reference
Back in the early 1990s, no red-carpet affair seemed complete without a paint-hurling protester redesigning a celeb's sable coat. From Wordnik.com. [REAL FUR IS FUN AGAIN] Reference
Quite illegally, each tried to dismiss the other, like rival 14th-century popes hurling edicts of excommunication back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's Coup De Grace] Reference
The ensuing finger-crimping, egg-hurling and electrocuting dazzles the magic-show audience, who misinterpret it all as part of the act. From Wordnik.com. [One Funny Appetizer] Reference
Look for the bit on Francis Ford Coppola hurling his Oscars out the window after failing to sign Steve McQueen for "" Apocalypse Now. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Books] Reference
The soft serve seller then went up to the other ice cream vendor and started allegedly shaking his truck and hurling racial slurs at him. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Cream Truck Fight: Vendor Brawls With Competitor (VIDEO)] Reference
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