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How to use hunkered in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hunkered? Here are some examples.

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He straightened and then hunkered over again and again, as if shocks of pain were shooting up his spine.
We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain.
The obsessive artist spent hours hunkered over his mortar and pestle, grinding, grinding, mixing.
I spent my summer vacation at computer camp, hunkered over a keyboard programming an adventure game.
She stopped in surprise, as she stared at Alex, hunkered over in the corner.
I found him hunkered with his nightmares in the soupily humid town of Bangor, in the American State of Maine.
I hunkered lower down in my seat and tried to pretend that I couldn't speak English.
The stench of sulfur filled the air as I dragged myself across the scree and hunkered behind a dark boulder.
He's a fellow Jersey guy now hunkered down in the nether regions of Georgia, which frankly sounds like a fine sitcom idea.
When small clumps of snow began to fall on him, he knew what was coming and began digging a hole, where he hunkered as the slide hit.
Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter.
I hunkered respectfully at the bar on my first visit and let the chef take me on an omakase tasting tour of the menu.
Whitney was picked up by police at a bank in Largo, Florida, where he'd hunkered down to catch a bit of shut-eye.
In fact, we were hunkered down with some folks in a nearby mobile home park.
I hunkered in the basement, next to a row of what appeared to be giant mandarin chamber pots.
He hunkered down in a patch of magnolias like a tomcat preparing to pounce.
They pulled on their long johns, dragged out their lawn chairs, and hunkered down against the federal building's brown walls.
She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers.
The village usually had a store with gas pumps out front, and a cooler hunkered squarely beside the entrance.
They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He hunkered down in the slime to eat a tallowy stew of bull meat and barley from a metal pannikin.
The hog had now buried itself in the middle of a cabbage palm thicket, hunkered down.
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