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  • verb Present participle of lurch.
  • noun the action of the verb to lurch

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Examples

  • It†™ s rather distracting and takes one out of the issue quite a bit with the startling panels of Robin lurching through the panel on his way to bust some heads.

    Review: World’s Finest #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • With the current presidential term lurching to such a calamitous close that the incumbent is probably worried about being remembered as George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush, the correlation between presidential party and economic outcome demands some kind of explanation.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • However, she vividly recalls lurching to the airplane bathroom and, quite literally having a "technicolour yarn".

    You, Too, Can Have Teletubby Poo Jen 2008

  • I recall lurching into a restroom and praying in vain to the porcelain god.

    On Memory | clusterflock 2008

  • But when he came to the pool his pace was so precipitate that he could not stop it, and with a kind of lurching stagger, he fell splash into the greasy water.

    The Ball and the Cross 1905

  • Like, so sweet that anytime your face is within jumping (well, more like 'lurching') distance she will find a way to lick it.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • One owner from Commerce Township told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that they could reproduce a "lurching" in their Prius every time they hit a certain pothole.

    Freep.com - RSS 2010

  • Like, so sweet that anytime your face is within jumping (well, more like 'lurching') distance she will find a way to lick it.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • Like, so sweet that anytime your face is within jumping (well, more like 'lurching') distance she will find a way to lick it.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • Biden has increasingly tried to paint McCain as "lurching" from one position to another in a bid to convince voters that he would be incapable as president of addressing the nation's economic woes.

    Freep.com - RSS 2008

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