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How to use hunkering in a sentence

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

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I am hunkering down for the next three weeks as I need to make my deadline.
He likes nothing better than locking arms, hooking thumbs and hunkering down for a quick grapple on a table.
Some people won't want to wait for the pieces to fall in place, but it's worth hunkering down for the pay-off.
Flash forward three years, and she is hunkering down over coffee to talk about her life and the theatre, once again.
Cutting back and hunkering down may get your business through the short-term crisis, but will not position you to be a leader in the future.
The move seemed to suggest that the notoriously combative mogul was hunkering down for a serious fight.
Just think of the memories they will have of that broomball tournament when they are hunkering down in Afghanistan.
But most banks are hunkering down for more misery, as defaults among consumers and companies spiral.
This fellow had sent his family off to a hotel and was hunkering down with a transistor radio, numerous candles and a wood stove.
Just about any way I hit an apex, the car reacts and readjusts itself, hunkering down its hindquarters and clinging to the asphalt.
Companies that are not facing collapse are just hunkering down and waiting out the storm.
He had a BA in philosophy, so he found work as a fry cook before hunkering down to adjudicate applications at the Passport Office for twenty-five years.
They have been hunkering down and they've reached a decision.
For now the family is hunkering down in privacy, but royal blood never stays settled for too long.
We do not believe that standing still and hunkering down while waiting for the storm to pass is the right approach to take in a market like this.
Corporate America seems to be hunkering down and curbing capital spending.
But most Baghdadis were hunkering down until it was safe to come out.
Instead there is a general hunkering down, a steadfast determination to continue the struggle against the Occupation regardless of how long it takes.
Nobody ever won a war by hunkering down and staying on the defensive.
Afghans were hunkering down, and several mentioned another civil war.
Examples from Classical Literature
Do you remember how the child you once were sat in the brae, spinning the peerie, and hunkering at I-dree I-dree I droppit-it?
God made man to stand erect on his two feet, but you would be for ever hunkering like a monkey eatin' nuts.
Shann reached the next room in line, hunkering down to see within it.
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