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Example sentences for "hunched"

Lexicographically close words:
hunc; hunch; hunchback; hunchbacked; hunchbacks; hunches; hunching; hund; hunder; hunderd
  1. Galeazzo, hunched on his cushions, stared vacantly before him.

  2. Carlo drummed on the board, where he sat hunched over it.

  3. He said it calmly and distinctly, looking towards Narcisso, who all this time had stood hunched in the background, his dull brain struggling bewildered in a maze.

  4. Carrick saw heads and shoulders hunched to aim over stable-doors as he obeyed his orders and kept his oath.

  5. He hunched his great loose shoulders to shift the position of a small sack of stuff he was carrying.

  6. The girl was still smiling, and one arm stole round the boy's hunched shoulders.

  7. He hunched his back against it and walked faster, swearing as he stumbled on hidden rocks.

  8. They looked at each other, the big men of Norren, and their shoulders hunched bear-like.

  9. Isadore Kantor, aged eleven and hunched with a younger Kantor over an oilcloth-covered table, hunched himself still deeper in a barter for a large crystal marble with a candy stripe down its center.

  10. She would sit hunched and looking out of them so long and so unseeingly that her very stare seemed to sleep.

  11. His outthrust head, set low on the hunched shoulders, moved from right to left threateningly as his gaze passed from one to another.

  12. He would sit hunched down before the fire, head bowed in his hands, a mountain of dole and woe.

  13. With hands in his pockets, elbows pressed close to his sides and shoulders hunched up, he is shivering while lounging at ease.

  14. In the ditches, hunched up or stretched at full length, are human corpses.

  15. They walk stoopingly, heads bent, hunched to one side, by reason of broken shoulders or arms that hang listless and heavy.

  16. I can see him who sobs, sitting in the ditch, hunched and huddled together beneath the burden of his sorrow.

  17. And on these are sitting women with backs hunched and bent, their clasped hands drooping over their knees, their eyes dull and blank.

  18. His disjointed reveries were interrupted by Penfold being hurled violently backwards, his hunched shoulders striking Ralph violently in the chest.

  19. Somewhere in the church - he could not have said exactly where - he could make out the man in the cassock hunched under his bent back and at peace, as if his work were completed.

  20. They were indeed sat close together, if either of them turned his head even slightly it would have knocked against the other's, the businessman was not only very small but also sat hunched down, so that K.

  21. Leni insisted he show her a photograph of Elsa, and then, hunched on his lap, studied the picture closely.

  22. He looked disgruntled and his big shoulders hunched with a boyish petulance, rather engaging--had not his every gesture been salt on Amaldi's open wound.

  23. Then his face loosened; he hunched his shoulders still more, giving a short, harsh laugh.

  24. I hunched into the darkest corner I could find and hoped they wouldn't look for me there.

  25. I hunched forward on the chair and willed harder than ever.

  26. His eyes sought the prisoner--the man who also knew--where he sat hunched heavily forward in his chair, his arms upon the table.

  27. I myself, Crippled and hunched and twisted as I am, Would make a brave fend to stand up to you Until you swallowed your words, if you should slobber Your pity over me.

  28. Daddy hunched over his soap-box bench and hugged himself.

  29. Daddy sat hunched on his soap-box, and, as in a hateful dream, he saw his famous team go to pieces.

  30. The green-clad creature hunched thin shoulders again in a ceremonious gesture.

  31. Hunched over, weeping, a thin, dark-haired girl sat beneath an unshaded light.

  32. She hunched her shoulders and wrapped her arms around her body.

  33. The inches multiplied themselves into a foot, the foot lengthened into yards, and still the man remained hunched over his simmering pot.

  34. Softly he sped to the tiny cot and knelt beside it, his thin shoulders hunched over, his long black hair shining lustrously in the lamp-glow, his breath coming in quick, sobbing happiness.

  35. Jean knew that whoever was ahead of him was not far away, and he laughed and hunched his shoulders when he saw that his magnificent Malemutes were making three times the speed of the huskies.

  36. He twisted his face into a dozen expressions of a language as voluble as that of his tongue, hunched his shoulders up to his ears as he grinned at Jan, and chuckled between his grimaces.

  37. Cummins was upon his knees beside the cot, his big shoulders hunched over, and Mélisse was welcoming him with her whole vocabulary of sound.

  38. The boy hunched his shoulders, and his eyes flashed.

  39. The man was close to the little blaze, his broad shoulders hunched over, steadying a small pot over the flame.

  40. Dave had already swung his ship around more to the north, and was hunched forward over the stick staring hard at the mountain cloud bank looming up ahead.

  41. Body hunched well forward, and every muscle braced, Dave fixed his gaze on the ground below, and held his breath.

  42. He told me all the story; meanwhile, I, tired of wiping and blowing my nose, sat in the dirty armchair hunched up with elbows on knees and let it drip on to the dirty carpet.

  43. I am sitting hunched up by the fire in my lodgings after a meal of tough meat and cold apple-tart.

  44. Hunched up against the parapet sat the old vagrant she had seen there before, motionless, his rags lifting in the breeze, puffs of smoke coming at long intervals from his short clay pipe.

  45. She was hunched up on a camp stool, all string and bits of firewood.

  46. And as Victoria watched them form, rise and vanish into nothingness, the sun kiss gently but pitilessly the old vagrant hunched up against the parapet, the horror seemed to melt away.

  47. Against the square-paned window was hunched a forward-shouldered woman.

  48. Ten-year-old Margaret Duncan can be found sitting hunched up on a doorstep in a back street in Belfast.

  49. His father's gaunt frame was hunched over the peat blocks on the flat hearth.

  50. The latter had already hunched himself forward, the red knife in his hand poised at his waistline.

  51. His eyes were like two dark coals gazing steadily as a serpent's over Quade's hunched shoulders and bowed head.

  52. Old Donald hunched his shoulders, and suddenly John's face grew dark and hard.

  53. His eyes seemed bulging out on his cheeks; his great hands were knotted; his shoulders were hunched forward, and his mottled face was ablaze with passion.

  54. Rann was speaking, while Quade, with his bullish shoulders hunched forward and his fleshy red neck, rolling over the collar of his coat, leaned across the table in a tense and listening attitude.

  55. Doctor Holiday went over and laid a hand on each of the lad's hunched shoulders.

  56. Still Larry said nothing, just sat hunched in a heap, running his fingers over the handle of the paddle.

  57. Pure water creates no sensation, because it contains no sapid particle.

  58. The old woman hunched her shoulders and made abruptly for the door.

  59. It had hunched itself up into a miserable lump, and its long snail's eyes were drawn in quite tight so that they hardly showed at all.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hunched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.