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Sentence Examples We have received a very apologetic letter about the closure of the West End Club, but it really left us in the lurch. Santa's reindeer left him in the lurch when they abandoned him on a church roof, leaving firemen to come to the rescue. She had gotten up for a moment to check on the pilot when the ship had started to uncontrollably lurch. Finally, with a lurch, the shuttle disengaged from the station and began its wild descent to the planet below. But he fails to account for why the Austrian government labelled them as criminals and left them in the lurch. He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench. The advent of plastic saw this natural and eco-friendly product being forced out of homes, leaving the craftsmen in the lurch. The tank's engine rose and pitch, and gave a sudden lurch as the treads sprung to life. Booms are almost by definition a huge transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another leaving many in the lurch. The lurch to the right is regrettable, but it's perhaps not the business of the rest of the world. But, given the strong feelings he stirred in Maoridom that led to this interview, it is a shame that he left us in the lurch without explanation. Fans are used to Young's laid-back stage presence, the hunched shoulders, eyes often masked by cap or hat, the trademark shamble and lurch. This is followed by the bump and lurch as the aircraft touches down and the engines roar into full reverse. He was hit with a sudden flash of vertigo, and his stomach rolled over in a lazy lurch. The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard. Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails. Wrenching sideways, I feel the rope make a sudden lurch down, frightening me. This manoeuvre caused the jib sails to be blown out and with a lurch she went on her beam ends again with the main and mizzen yards under water. Anyway, the cow has left me in the lurch and now I have to do her work as well as my own. The irony is that a lurch to the left might actually prolong the inevitable fall of this medieval institution. Show More Sentences Each dip and trough of the uneven ground caused her to lurch forward in her seat and rattled her to the core. There was a lurch and the tube seemed to bounce buoyantly as if floating on water. However, she felt a sudden lurch in her stomach as she came to an abrupt stop. The first minister's lurch to populist authoritarianism is obscuring a success story, one in which law and order policies seem to be working. But the transparency and cloddishness of such a sudden lurch insulted a large segment of the population. As the articles indicate, it is this crisis, in the final analysis, that lies behind the lurch to war and dictatorial forms of rule. I lurch out of the door, point myself unsteadily in the direction of my student house, and stagger through the empty streets. But she's too drunk to keep her balance and the momentum of the lurch is enough to send her sprawling. A second goal was in the air and Ruud van Nistelrooy went looking for it with a melodramatic lurch to the ground in search of a penalty. He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs. She sidled out of the small space, and just as she reached the end, there was a lurch as the plane hit an air pocket and she started to fall. For myself, wine o'clock starts as many seconds after the kids are in bed as it takes for me to lurch to the wine rack. With each lurch of the truck another flaming bale toppled off, coming to a flaming halt on the road or igniting the grass at its shoulder. Try having that for the best part of several weeks, with the occasional lurch in either direction. Various factors come into play in producing this situation, including the general rightward lurch by the political and media establishment. This crude fabrication is a manifestation of a sharp rightward lurch experienced by so many academics. But after the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan, we were left in the lurch. They were higher than any other boat when the little ship gave a lurch downwards and uttered a slow groan. The 62-acre patch of land is swarming with cement trucks, forklifts, and front-end loaders that lurch forward without warning. My climbing skins grip slushy snow for a moment, then slip back with an exhausting lurch. Show More Sentences Kelu departed forthwith, despite the guru's curse for leaving him in the lurch. It would be quite cruel of you to simply leave your dearest friends in the lurch in that manner! Sadly, it will be greeted with weary resignation by Swindonians, who have watched the authority lurch shambolically from one crisis to another in recent years. As reported last week, it dropped plans to sell-off its vehicle depots as part of the deal following fears that it would leave winter road maintenance in the lurch. Consumers or states could then be left in the lurch, seeking other sources of coverage. Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina will not be included in this first decision on visa exemption, but they are not being left in the lurch. I hope the minister lets the people know now so the whole machinery of the program does not shut down and people are not left in the lurch. We are victims, and we have been left in the lurch the whole time that this has been going on, and that's the truth. Because of this government's actions, the days where children and families are left in the lurch are over. If, as in Denmark, the majority of applicants are given asylum or residence permits, then legitimate refugees are left in the lurch. A large number of cultural festivals and events were left in the lurch this year when the sponsorship funds were frozen. This will delight our English speaking collaborators who were left in the lurch for some time. I felt a sudden, instinctive lurch – the thought of my phiz besmirching every hairdresser's salon and dentist's waiting room. The United States cannot simply walk away from the plain meaning of the Budapest Memorandum and leave Ukraine in the lurch. The new trains only have a power switch, and all lurch to a stop identically. Just as the tourism season heats up, why has the government left the Oakville tourism centre in the lurch? Giving up that objective would be tantamount to leaving thousands of young people in the lurch. If Europe wants to be there for its citizens, it should not leave them in the lurch now. No longer will an economic downturn or the decision to care for children leave them in the lurch without employment insurance or parental leave. The second reason, however, is that such a scheme would leave consumers completely in the lurch. Show More Sentences I hope that the Council will not leave us in the lurch should one or other Member State perhaps still have reservations. I think that the committee has really left us a bit in the lurch in regard to this. Today we are talking about our dairy farmers and whether we are going to leave them in the lurch or deal with them in an honest manner. We mustn't leave our employees in the lurch now and should inform them as early as possible and without putting a gloss on the facts. However we did not leave producers in the lurch by waiting until these programs kicked in. In fact they will have lost their souls, and the things they forged will leave them in the lurch. I do not believe that we should leave them in the lurch, but should be honest in our dealings with them. That will leave troops in a lurch when the F-35 eventually becomes the only game in town. These massive, toothless, famished monsters lurch tragically about the space on limbs too weak to support their giant forms for long. What dedicated texter hasn't suffered an epic misunderstanding, or experienced a sick lurch of fear upon dispatching a message of sensitive character to the wrong recipient? The conflicts between rapacious owners and rapacious players may leave fans in the lurch. But his lumbering lurch toward the Ted Cruz tin-foil-hat convention should instead be an object lesson for Republicans to come. Traffic moves so slowly that it barely matters when pedestrians lurch into it. The danger is not that Britain will lurch into recession, rather that recovery will be weaker than expected. Such a lurch of programming would guarantee failure at any box office in the real world. If he should leave we will be in a miserable lurch for none of us know anything about packing horses. Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down. A sickening crack echoed through the air and I felt my stomach lurch. As we got further out the waves got calmer, but for right now they were choppy and making the boat lurch from side to side, pitching with each rise and fall of a wave. Suddenly there was a great lurch, and he slid to the end of his cage. Show More Sentences Their lurch to the Left was disastrous for them at the last election. The only thing he succeeded in was causing a great lurch and a tremor. As Kwenn reached him, the ship gave a sudden, violent lurch to one side. There was the lurch of takeoff and the coffee and pastries I'd had during the meeting got friendly with parts of my body I'd rather they stayed clear of. The defendant was said to have turned to fraud when Mr Moore left her in the lurch and she was struggling to pay the mortgage on her pension, the court was told. Is it the real deal or just a dumbed-down lurch towards the lowbrow? The crowd began to lurch violently, as small motions rippled out into panicked attempts to break away. Well, this is where the mainstream media have left you, citizen, in the lurch. He grinned at this, though my heart gave a sickening little fearful lurch. The ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them. Within hours of a musician's death, favorite and even some dug-up singles hit the airwaves, radio call-in shows lurch into overdrive, and Web site traffic increases. The problem is that their remarkable efficiency allows them to overproduce almost any commodity, so agriculture tends to lurch from surplus to surplus. But then you're annoyingly left in the lurch. I would like to think, in fact, that it might nip in the bud any wimpish lurch toward vegetarianism. Pension valuations are notoriously susceptible to assumptions, and BA's deficit could easily lurch between £1 billion and £8 billion. Such uncertainties limit BA's options, as well as its attractiveness to a merger partner. Al Gore may well have lost in November because he tried to lurch away from the muzzy centrism his boss had perfected. In this section How was it for you? But the Republicans' rightward lurch has left them nowhere else to go. A 760mAh lithium polymer battery is sealed inside the unit, thus removing the need to change batteries but also leaving you in the lurch if it does go flat and you're nowhere near a computer's USB port. Mr. Murray actually never said he would not leave the city in the lurch to seek personal political fortunes with the Liberal Party and so he never finished his term as mayor of Winnipeg. This presidency has also shown, despite some foot-dragging and perhaps reluctance, how important solidarity is in external relations, and how important it is not to leave any Member State in the lurch. Show More Sentences The fact that he is now stating that in public rather than always leaving Commissioner Wallström in the lurch, that he is declaring his support for it in front of this Parliament, represents progress. We will not leave you in the lurch with your IT solutions. This disdain for the more vulnerable members of society is especially hard on older workers, who are left in the lurch by the Conservatives' 2010 budget. In addition to amending the equalization formula without consultation and creating a single securities regulator, this budget leaves Quebec's forestry and manufacturing industries in the lurch. Previous trains had left passengers in the lurch in Hyannis. The candidates, however, remain in the lurch. Instruct those present to leave the danger area behind or underneath the machine, since the machine may lurch backwards if the halves of the upper link have been screwed apart by mistake or if they break apart. And when you lurch in the opposite direction, they lurch too, like you're umbilically joined. As the internal armed conflict intensifies, and as efforts at peacebuilding lurch backwards and forwards at a snail's pace, indigenous peoples are trapped by this multi-faceted confrontation in many areas of rural Colombia. For most European countries, the cowardice over Tibet is just regular pusillanimity: the same attitude that leaves Georgia in the lurch, Ukraine in the cold, Belarus in the dark and Russia ruled by murderous bandits. That is a shame because as each year goes by more and more children, 50,000 children a year, are left in the lurch hoping their parents have enough maturity and common sense to find a shared parenting arrangement. And since precious little is being done to add to the stock of affordable housing in these more convenient, but higherpriced locales, renters without transportation are left in the lurch. Khan, left in the lurch, called in Tabares after his stellar work with his friend David Haye, the former WBA heavyweight champion. These states were left in the lurch for years by simply making promises. When I lurch back toward where I can make out what CNN is saying, CNN has broken for commercial. Shazbot! In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch. With insights such as these, the book veers with the occasional awkward lurch between historiography and be history subjects themselves. Sorrow, Emilie Jaszczur unexpectedly ran offstage twice, leaving poor Butterfly and Sharpless in the lurch. The government of the day, singing to the tune of economic liberalisation and globalisation of trade, has meticulously planned to leave the farmers in lurch. With the world as economically integrated as it has become over recent decades, any lurch into economic nationalism would dislocate commercial activity even further and risk turning the global crisis into a depression. Show More Sentences So Bolivia will now lurch to the left and perhaps towards confrontation with the United States. The count was expected to take several days to complete. He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself. It sounds complicated and a bit convoluted, but Monahan's script is such a wonder of symmetrical precision that the audience is never left in the lurch. Celtic are now scouring the globe to find a new hitman for Deila, although time is not on their side after being left in the lurch at such a late stage. Examples from Classical Literature They were gone in an instant and in pursuit of them rushed a rollicking lurch of sound. With every lurch of her feet, Andrew expected to feel her crumble beneath him. My pride was touched, and I agreed to go, leaving my fisherman in the lurch. When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare. Government, I suppose, will do what is right, and not leave me in the lurch. What sort of a God was it who was gracious only to the young, and left the old in the lurch? I tell you it was exciting to hook a five or six pounder and have him make off with a lurch. We gaped at the stock-still brick facade of an old church, against which the waves of people lurch and withdraw. A back rest would throw one forward in a frontward lurch, and give no support in case of a backward one. But Chet felt the ship lift and lurch, then settle down to a swift, spiralling ascent. That was the unmistakable lurch we felt, but no one expects to run into pilings in mid-ocean, so every one knew what it was. He is just the man to abscond with all the money and leave us in the lurch, the scoundrel! Just then there came along a quail, and he took the two women-deer and led them across, leaving the bigamous coyote in the lurch. Once he saw a black cow moose, tormented with flies, lurch out madly from the thickets and plunge wallowing into the lake. Started at larst very suddent, causin the bote for to lurch vilently and knockin me orf from my pins. And while the tinker fell asleep, Robin made haste away, And left the tinker in the lurch, For the great shot to pay. His courtiers have left him in the lurch, and his concubines have followed so excellent an example. I can't run the chance of the paper being left in the lurch. I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle. It must also remember that it has, time and again, been duped by USA, at all perilous hours, and left one of its most trusted friends immodestly in the lurch. Show More Sentences Allegedly duping the businessmen, a trading company in Ghala reportedly closed down its operations since last Tuesday, leaving the traders in the lurch. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of lurch? Words that rhyme with lurch What is the past tense of lurch? What is the plural of lurch? What is the adverb for lurch? What is the adjective for lurch? What is the noun for lurch? Translations for lurch Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lur Luqman Lupus lupus lupulin Lupton lurched lurcher lurches lurching lurchy lure 5-letter Words Starting With l lu lur lurc