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Example sentences for "hunching"

Lexicographically close words:
hunchback; hunchbacked; hunchbacks; hunched; hunches; hund; hunder; hunderd; hunderds; hundered
  1. This is a most unpleasant business for all parties," he concluded, sinking into his chair again, hunching his shoulders and regarding the flames.

  2. The room very soon contained between twenty and thirty people, who found seats for the most part upon the floor, occupying the mattresses, and hunching themselves together into triangular shapes.

  3. But Dale he just kept hunching along, and hunching along till he had come to where he thought he could get the bulge on the busy flames.

  4. It's certainly great of you to show so much interest," said Jimmy, hunching himself at last out of his chair.

  5. It flattened its ears down at the sound of the man's voice, and its restless, hunching movements and the liftings and shiftings of its forefeet became more pronounced but it would not come to the man.

  6. Hunching his bent shoulders, Mate Malcolm came nimbly down the ladder and from the chest of arms drew forth muskets and pistols.

  7. Now he shivered and shrunk from the rain, hiding his hands in his pockets and hunching his shoulders together.

  8. He went out, hunching his shoulders together and shivering at the touch of the icy rain.

  9. Hunching its long neck far down between its shoulders, it suddenly thrust it up.

  10. Suddenly the bittern stopped and, hunching its neck, stepped stealthily, like a little old bent man, into the sedges.

  11. He squared his shoulders as though conscious of the awkward hunching habit, and said in his harsh voice: "I am glad to meet you, Mrs Lawless.

  12. Young Jim, his head on his breast and his shamed eyes looking down at nothing, was fumbling again with his wares and Ranee Fleming's hunching shoulders were vanishing at the end of the shed.

  13. What is the good of all the dancing and drilling and riding with Captain Cooper if you will persist in hunching your shoulders as though you were deformed?

  14. There were times even now when Jill looked positively handsome, if only her short black locks would grow, and if she would leave off hunching her shoulders.

  15. Retracting its neck between its shoulders and hunching its powerful back limbs under it, it rushed from that point of danger straight for one of the archways.

  16. Before a long mirror in his dressing room he studied himself--studied his bowed back and his hunching shoulders and his shaky shanks--and all.

  17. He was still there in that same hunching position, but the cigar had burned down two-thirds of its length, when the lock snicked a warning and his companion re-entered, bearing a key with which he relocked the door upon the inner side.

  18. Mildred, looking at the girl as she sat hunching her shoulders, as usual, over a book.

  19. We stood in the deep doorway, hunching coat collars, looking into the foggy street.

  20. He heaved himself over in the bed, hunching the covers about his ears, turning his back on me.


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