He straightened and then hunkered over again and again, as if shocks of pain were shooting up his spine. |
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We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain. |
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The obsessive artist spent hours hunkered over his mortar and pestle, grinding, grinding, mixing. |
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I spent my summer vacation at computer camp, hunkered over a keyboard programming an adventure game. |
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She stopped in surprise, as she stared at Alex, hunkered over in the corner. |
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I found him hunkered with his nightmares in the soupily humid town of Bangor, in the American State of Maine. |
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I hunkered lower down in my seat and tried to pretend that I couldn't speak English. |
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The stench of sulfur filled the air as I dragged myself across the scree and hunkered behind a dark boulder. |
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He's a fellow Jersey guy now hunkered down in the nether regions of Georgia, which frankly sounds like a fine sitcom idea. |
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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. |
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Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter. |
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I hunkered respectfully at the bar on my first visit and let the chef take me on an omakase tasting tour of the menu. |
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Whitney was picked up by police at a bank in Largo, Florida, where he'd hunkered down to catch a bit of shut-eye. |
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In fact, we were hunkered down with some folks in a nearby mobile home park. |
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I hunkered in the basement, next to a row of what appeared to be giant mandarin chamber pots. |
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He hunkered down in a patch of magnolias like a tomcat preparing to pounce. |
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They pulled on their long johns, dragged out their lawn chairs, and hunkered down against the federal building's brown walls. |
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She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers. |
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The village usually had a store with gas pumps out front, and a cooler hunkered squarely beside the entrance. |
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They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats. |
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The image once of the lone engineer hunkered down working on a solution to a problem no longer applies. |
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I then hunkered down and got real serious, knowing I was going to have to fly the best instrument approach of my life. |
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As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. |
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With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music. |
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I stay hunkered behind the teacher's desk, next to an open window. |
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A dozen policemen hunkered tensely outside the target's address, a Victorian terraced house. |
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Companies hunkered down after the credit crisis, taking out bank loans when they could. |
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Alberta consumers have clearly hunkered down in the face of the recent downturn in the energy sector and deteriorating job market. |
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No wonder it was such a big book. A few months later, I finally hunkered down and read the book from page one to the end. |
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After a few opening remarks from their Chairman, the five new Board Members hunkered down and got to work. |
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The Cup version of the Twingo RS gives the car a decided hunkered stance with a 4mm drop. |
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Whether hunkered down in a fishing canoe or dressing-up for the Ascot races, our president would be ready! |
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The sight of them sitting next to one another, hunkered over the book as they finished the sentence, struck a deep feeling in him, though exactly what he couldn't identify. |
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Instead, the politician who once braved a crowded Mumbai train hunkered down at home. |
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She hunkered down for a stone and skimmed it along the water. |
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Wasn't this the century that included millions of conscripts hunkered down in trenches, and millions more innocent civilians herded into gulags and concentration camps? |
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As the financial crisis really took hold in Ireland towards the end of 2008, financial services professionals understandably hunkered down and attempted to weather the storm. |
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The RCMP installed a copy of its Air India database on a local server, and the parties hunkered down to vet, organize, redact and disclose the file on an ongoing basis. |
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It has a bunker mentality and is hunkered down behind the barricades. |
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Meanwhile, the protectorate's small minority of Serbs hunkered down, as they are today, essentially becoming a community statelet within a parastate. |
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Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse. |
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In early 1924, Olmstead was approached by Richard Fryant, the freelance wiretapper who had been hunkered down in the basement of the Henry Building, listening to Olmstead's lines. |
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Furthermore, while delegates hunkered down in Barcelona, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, said he no longer expects a legally-binding outcome in Copenhagen. |
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Four days earlier the province was hunkered down, fearing the worst. |
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Wildflower meadows need cutting, but conservationists usually advise to do so in the autumn, after flowers have seeded and invertebrates are hunkered down for the winter. |
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Most of the team hunkered down at the legendary Brown Bull, but Noble got into his Triumph Herald and drove home to Sale, where his wife was hosting a party. |
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So in Holland in 1944, apparently in one of the less active periods or lulls in the miltary action, my father and his comrades were hunkered down in a forested area overlooking a meadow. |
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We have a great deal of confidence in our ability to operate our airline in our environment, and although it's been disconcerting, we've hunkered down and carried on running our business. |
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These days, however, family members are more likely to be hunkered down in front of their own individual blazes as television viewing becomes an increasingly solitary activity. |
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A monk among them used a stepladder to scale the first wall, to take a peek at the hundreds of police who were hunkered in the garden of Government House, waiting for their confrontation with the protesters. |
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The potential is obvious as a voluptuous 426-horsepower, 6.2-liter V8 provides the thrills while a low, wide hunkered stance promises performance in the twisties. |
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And targeted investments in your supply chain can be the key to emerging from the recession with competitive costs and a customer service advantage over those companies that simply hunkered down. |
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Hunkered down in my studies, I'd hear the trailer suddenly begin to crackle like a beer can crushed in a fist. |
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Hunkered down in a bunker, she, Mellie, and Fitz argue over what details about their relationship they want to make public. |
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