Hunkered Sentence Examples

hunkered

  • A dark form hunkered before the fire, feeding small twigs to the flames.

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  • She called to him as he hunkered down beside a rose bush with a few brown leaves clinging to it.

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  • He shoved her against the wall, and she hunkered down.

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  • She unfolded her jacket collar and hunkered down in the saddle, cold and miserable.

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  • We also hunkered down that night - and like the Iraqis we thought it was going to begin with a massive thunderclap.

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  • Lana hunkered against the mountain as the helicopter drew nearer.

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  • Carmen Pulock hunkered down into her heavy chore coat and scooted her chair closer to the potbellied stove.

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