Wondering how to use Hunker in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as squat or crouch.
Hunker meaning
- To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
- To apply oneself to a task
Using Hunker
- The main meaning on this page is: To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down | To apply oneself to a task
- Useful related words include: squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up.
- In the example corpus, hunker often appears in combinations such as: hunker down, to hunker, and hunker.
Context around Hunker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hunker
- In this selection, "hunker" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, down stand out and add context to how "hunker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as they hunker down in and as we hunker down in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hunker" sits close to words such as abenaki, adria and afn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hunker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We had stocked the freezers and ready to go hunker down. (11 words)
I wanted to hunker down in one place and play everything from home. (13 words)
Usually, they hunker down out of the wind and the worst of the weather. (14 words)
And as we head into this crucial stretch, it is time for the most promising Trump challengers — who at this point appear to be Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley — to hunker down and show us what they are made of. (40 words)
America should prepare to hunker down even more as coronavirus spreads, Fauci saysNo more 24-hour Walmarts due to panic buying, chaos at airports as Americans flood back into the country and places of comfort such as bars, restaurants and. (40 words)
As the United States continues to hunker down amid the coronavirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 150,000 people thus far, federal officials are warning that the worst is yet to come as the virus’s spread continues to intensify. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
And as we head into this crucial stretch, it is time for the most promising Trump challengers — who at this point appear to be Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley — to hunker down and show us what they are made of.
Floodwaters in West Virginia forced some high school students to hunker down for the night in an impromptu slumber party complete with pizza, board games and football tosses in the gymnasium.
Pick your "free state" or hunker down here in Jersey, cause it aint gonna get better any time soon.
And I just thought, I need to just hunker down here and get through, soldier through.
I wanted to hunker down in one place and play everything from home.
Usually, they hunker down out of the wind and the worst of the weather.
We opted for a two-bed beach bungalow, and the children were more than happy to hunker down on the sofa bed for two nights.
America should prepare to hunker down even more as coronavirus spreads, Fauci saysNo more 24-hour Walmarts due to panic buying, chaos at airports as Americans flood back into the country and places of comfort such as bars, restaurants and.
As the United States continues to hunker down amid the coronavirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 150,000 people thus far, federal officials are warning that the worst is yet to come as the virus’s spread continues to intensify.
Common sense – and decency – would compel the Sussexes to hunker down with their baby in the temporary comfort of a borrowed mansion and hope the rest of us wouldn't notice their period of wise invisibility.
For many people, smartphones have become our windows to the world, as we hunker down in self-isolation.
For the most part, families have taken the pandemic seriously, taking measured steps to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, ready to hunker down and ride out the storm.
From New York to Los Angeles, families have been handling their help in different ways as they hunker down in their homes.
It could even be fun, and after you do it, you get to hunker down and enjoy the fruits of your labor (plus bragging rights on social media.
It meant everyone had to hunker down in those neutral sites and block the outside world.
No matter how much you try to hunker down at home to avoid the coronavirus, there are some errands that are tough to avoid — such as grocery shopping.
The closure of Australia's caravan parks last week has left thousands of Australians' trips of a lifetime in disarray and forced many full-time caravan residents to abandon their intrepid instincts and hunker down in one location.
There's no such thing as too much reading, so carving out an hour to hunker down with your kids' favorite titles is certainly a good idea.
We had stocked the freezers and ready to go hunker down.
Well a lot of New Yorkers and Bostonian’s have hit Ptown to hunker down… and they are playing.
Common combinations with hunker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hunker down 38×
- to hunker 17×
- and hunker 3×
- they hunker 2×
- birds hunker 2×