noun
definition
A sudden or unsteady movement.
example
the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
verb
definition
To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Examples of lurch in a Sentence
The ground gave way under her foot, and with a sickening lurch of her heart, she plunged downward.
She watched Pete's bowlegged figure lurch back to his wagon.
Suddenly the ship gave an almighty lurch that threw me out my chair.
This was especially true when millions of sub-prime mortgages went sour, since it put more than a few international banks in a lurch.
Schedules and priorities can change in a flash, and well-meaning friends may not always be able to follow through on your pet's care as planned, leaving Fido in a lurch.
At one point Brandon Westlake stopped the car with a lurch.
You said noble brother friars were in the lurch.
He read a little of what was on the screen, and felt his stomach lurch.
Some marriages start with a lurch before they get rolling.
I seen the body lurch and I saw the body lurch again, I heard another shot that missed.
Of course, events in Russia remain critical and the potential for a sudden lurch into darkness remains.
Turkey was left in the lurch; and Austrian troops even occupied portions of Moldavia, in order to secure the communication between the new Polish provinces and Transylvania.
Katie looked relieved, but Carmen's stomach took an uncomfortable lurch.
Frequently, the mule would lurch forward to snatch a mouthful of wild fennel.
Wagnerism was henceforth proclaimed out of the mouths of babes and sucklings; learned musicians felt that it had an unfair advantage; and by the time Wagner's popularity began to thrive as a persecuted heresy he had left it in the lurch.
The fact, moreover, that although he had some speculative tendencies in favour of popular liberties, and even perhaps of republicanism, he represented no real political principle, inevitably weakened his position, and when the break up of the Fronde came he was left in the lurch, having more than once in the meanwhile been in no small danger from his own party.
But Charles left his ally in the lurch and concluded the peace of Crepy that same month; and in 1545 Henry had to face alone a French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
Scorpionfish are also well represented, including devil scorpionfish which lurch across the sandy bed.
Certain avenues of revenue may have dried up, leaving you in a bit of a lurch wondering how to pay those bills!
She was spoiling the men, but her decision to start home from Ashley was going to leave them in the lurch.
Of course, it wasn't as though they would be left in the lurch.
He pleaded the duty of a sultan to go to the aid of his subjects when oppressed by one of his servants; but the powers were obdurate, even Russia, much occupied in affairs nearer home, leaving him in the lurch.
Orlov tempted the Greeks of the Morea to take up arms, and then left them in the lurch.
The mental picture of Cade finding his mother that way made Cynthia's stomach lurch uncomfortably.
Years later I wrote myself a starring role in a Footlights sketch as a pirate captain who did nothing but lurch about shouting orders.
Scorpionfish are also well represented, including devil scorpionfish are also well represented, including devil scorpionfish which lurch across the sandy bed.
You do n't just lurch around the rink in an ungainly fashion any more.
Or maybe you simply feel embarrassed when learning how to drive a stick shift because you don't want to make the gears grind or make the car lurch and look silly or amateur.
The prolonged writers' strike of 1988 left viewers in the lurch as it delayed the new fall season.
In the event of an unexpected computer failure or a child's sudden illness, it's nice to have a group of qualified writers you can use as subcontractors to make sure your clients aren't left in the lurch.
The Boers further added that if the Swazis were relying on the British, they were leaning on a broken reed, and would find themselves left in the lurch.