How to Use hunker in a Sentence

hunker

verb
  • At least those lucky enough to hunker down in the first place.
    — Matthew Pillsbur, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • Don’t pull a cap over your eyes and hunker down in your chair.
    — Fern Kupfer, Twin Cities, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Cheers to the guy who hunkered down in his chair and rode it out.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • Until the week is over, hunker down — the heat is on its way.
    — Nicole Blackwood, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2019
  • Along the route, others had hunkered down in their spots for hours.
    — Dugan Arnett, Jerome Campbell, Eric Moskowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Or has the last year been a time to hunker down and save money and pay off debts?
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This could be a good week to hunker down and focus on study or research.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Some adopt a woe-is-us mindset and hunker down in their fraidy holes to wait out the storm.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames raced over that day.
    — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 24 June 2018
  • The last third are poor people, who have little choice but to hunker down.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The two hunkered down on the 40-acre parcel, thick with brush.
    — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • In the weeks ahead, wear a mask, social distance, and hunker down.
    — Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Harford is hunkered down for what could be the biggest snow storm of the year so far.
    — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 21 Mar. 2018
  • When startled or fearful, your cat might freeze in place and hunker low to the ground.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • Two of the bandits, who were hunkered down in the car’s open rear, returned fire.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The golf cart lurched forward and Quinn, hunkered on the floor, lurched, too.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Well, those who stay are going to have to be hunkered down for the next 48 hours.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The article went on to say that the best idea was to hunker down in a basement.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
  • Get ready to hunker down on the couch and revisit these throwback gems.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 16 Nov. 2022
  • If possible, try to hunker down in one room with the rest of your household.
    — Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • See friends and resume normal life, or hunker down again — and if so, for how long, to what end?
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • See friends and resume normal life, or hunker down again - and if so, for how long, to what end?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In the meantime, Dreamers will hunker down and wait for brighter days.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Disney+ has been a rare bright spot for the company as more people hunker down at home.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Widespread fans were hunkered down for the duration, primed for the two-hour show.
    — AL.com, 18 July 2017
  • You’d be forgiven for wanting to hunker down on the couch with your phone and tune it all out.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Some of them may try to make a go of it and either thrive or die out, but others will hunker down and wait.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Two youngsters hunkered by a small beach fire, holding slender sticks over it.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • In dense cover, a buck might only bound 150 yards and hunker down.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
  • But like people who might hunker down when stressed, the snake could be doing the same, Kennedy said.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021

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