hurley
Example Sentences
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What happens in that pursuit is a fearless athleticism of stops and starts, feints and sprints, bangs and bruises, all with the wide-ended hurley stick used to balance, swing and block.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
A splintered hurley, a couple of calls for a trainer, a few shoulder bumps, and then several scrums that seem incidental to the ball.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
Blurs of men continue their hurley battle for a ball skittering across a Kinvara field.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could not see what they were doing, but all might have been playing hurley, for "they looked as if it was that."
From The Celtic Twilight by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
