The hurtling express train.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The car hurtled down the highway. ,The sound was deafening, as tons of snow hurtled down the mountain.    From Dictionary.com. 

Finally, with a single flashing stroke, Kyle's golden blade sent Cotin's sword hurtling in a twinkling arc out over the coutyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juvenalia II: Action!] Reference

Exactly how is that hurtling us back into the '50 s?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

What does that eight minutes hurtling toward space feel like?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Enjoy The Experience'] Reference

I'm not sure which yet, but a stroller (omen?) comes hurtling by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every time we kiss, my hair falls out] Reference

The battered Citroën Saxo is hurtling towards me at about 12mph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The fall guy: a day at stuntman school] Reference

You've got a plane with unknown quantities hurtling towards the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYSTERY FLIGHT] Reference

  He came hurtling down the hill in as straight a line as it could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramblers and Spinners] Reference

The effects of intoxication would be exacerbated while hurtling through space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scandal: A Bad Buzz at NASA] Reference

A prolonged silence in the classroom brought John hurtling back inside the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Without a Net] Reference

I heard him before I saw him: a small, chubby boy hurtling at me in the dim light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine Price: When Is Too Old for Waterslides?] Reference

Little more than a year ago, the NAACP seemed to be hurtling toward self-destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Best Hope] Reference

All signs suggest that the planet is still hurtling headlong toward climatic disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Sachs: Making Sense of the Climate Impasse] Reference

That's why it's best to address unsound limbs before they come hurtling to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Who's responsible when my neighbor's tree falls on my roof?] Reference

But we'd rather be sitting on the back of a great big machine that's just hurtling out of control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Stop, The Universe] Reference

If there were a projectile, hurtling through space, it might, from one angle, appear to stand still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Married Women] Reference

Perhaps not by accident, as Hillary spoke in Selma, Bill's plane was still hurtling through the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [His New Role] Reference

     The question is, what put him there in mid-air, hurtling toward lizards and hard rocks below?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Agonistes] Reference

Asteroid + If we can't spot soccer-field-sized rock hurtling toward Earth, how will we find bin Laden?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Cliffs Notes Edition] Reference

Kaboom: the blast sends Indy hurtling across the New Mexico desert, a mushroom cloud rising behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Jump the Shark,’ Meet ‘Nuke the Fridge’] Reference

Spitzer had always loved risk, hurtling down black-diamond slopes (to his mother's distress) on ski vacations.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Dark Journey] Reference

He was bursting from the fissures, luminous, hurtling skyward, glittering shards like howling stars tumbling all around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference

There have been angry words between the two countries; an irresistible force seems to be hurtling toward an immovable object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Bashes Israel] Reference

Mr Darcy Dickinson, unexpectedly separated from his mount, hurtling, flask firmly fixed to lips, through the crisp autumn air.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Blood] Reference

By one independent count there were, last year alone, some 42 "major re-entries" — which is to say, big things hurtling down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flash in the Night Sky] Reference

Our Milky Way and its closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are hurtling toward each other at about 125 kilometers per second.    From Wordnik.com.  [And If The Comet Misses] Reference

I mean (Soundbite of laughter) MONTAGNE: ... your brain and body in love, hurtling through the cosmos for the next billion years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape] Reference

The 800-megawatt surge reversed course and began hurtling back toward New York, like some giant ectoplasmic monster on a rampage.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Went Wrong] Reference

Beyond the Swiss border the world may be hurtling to ruin, but nothing will ever disturb the timeless calm of a Swiss dining car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking It Slow] Reference

Every so often the game switches into first-person mode, as you send streams of fireballs hurtling towards hordes of onrushing enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Airbender] Reference

"" Every time we think we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's actually another freight train hurtling toward us, '' says Behravesh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Too Good To Last?] Reference

Over the next year his nationalist rhetoric escalated sharply as it became apparent that Yugoslavia was hurtling towards disintegration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covering Karadzic] Reference

All this is compounded by the fact that the continent's single biggest engine for growth, South Africa, is hurtling into a downward spiral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weakest Link] Reference