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Example sentences for "hunted"

Lexicographically close words:
hunner; hunnerd; hunny; hunt; hunte; hunter; hunters; hunteth; huntin; hunting
  1. Hunted animals would have known enough to eat and hurry on.

  2. Hunted animals would take advantage of ill weather to put distance between them and their foe.

  3. We landed safely on a gravelly beach, not so very much wetter than we had been, except for our legs (for we waded the last few yards), and I hunted at once for a piece of level ground.

  4. Hunted animals would be wise enough to run in the direction least expected.

  5. There was a pack of wolves that hunted in a forest near a village.

  6. As the day wore to a close it became more and more plain that, as my comrade had declared, we were like hunted animals caught in a trap.

  7. He twisted and doubled, running now this way, now that, like a hunted hare.

  8. You cannot return to Le Blanc, and wherever you go you will be hunted down by Cordel's assassins.

  9. Hard to beat at lawn tennis, they could ride and drive better than the average man, following the hounds of a pack occasionally hunted in the neighbourhood.

  10. I am the hunted stag, Whose life may ransom yours.

  11. Why, you surely must have forgotten that I hunted regularly the season before you left home.

  12. Here first arose the hamlet, later on the mining township, of Omeo, taking its name from the lonely lake so named by the wild tribes who had hunted on its borders and fished in its depths from immemorial ages.

  13. When he returned, the good-looking young man with the clean-shaved face and short hair did not look in the least like the hunted convict of the previous day.

  14. There could be no better place for a hunted man to disappear, to obliterate himself.

  15. He recounted his first introduction to Lance, and amused her by picturing himself as a hunted fugitive pursued by the minions of the law, finally captured and manacled.

  16. They hunted when they pleased, ate when they pleased, and slept when they pleased; and, above all, no bugle called them to the dull routine of morning parade.

  17. The lean parchment visage had the hunted look of the incorrigible failure, had written on it self-indulgence, cunning, and uncertainty.

  18. Once or twice, too, his eyes opened with a dumb hunted look, then closed as with an irresistible weariness.

  19. I found Bill one day tearing through Melton with a tin kettle tied to his tail, hunted by a pack of rascally school-boys; one of the little wretches had thrown a stone at him, and poor Bill was bleeding.

  20. The fox was caught in a trap, then let loose at a certain spot, and hunted with many dogs, as in England.

  21. The racoon is common in the forests of Harmony, and is never seen in the daytime; it is hunted in the night with dogs, which drive it into a tree.

  22. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us to-morrow, he would be hunted down.

  23. I dropped the argument and hunted for my cap.

  24. He rose with a deprecating gesture and there was a hunted look in his eyes.

  25. I have hunted everywhere that I could think of, and I am afraid it must be as I have long thought, that your poor father carried it away with him when he left for the army.

  26. I have hunted high and low, and I am afraid my poor husband must have carried it away in his wallet when he went South with his regiment.

  27. All the more diligently he hunted for the lost receipt, leaving not a nook or cranny of the little cottage unexplored, but his search was in vain.

  28. Here Pawnees and Apaches hunted the buffaloes, which not long ago literally blackened the meadows.

  29. The country south of the 49th parallel, it seems, was hunted up--therefore the posts of the Hudson's Bay Company were become of no value at all.

  30. I do not want such feelings to exist; nor do I want to be hunted as a bear or wild beast, for slaughter.

  31. She went to her room, knelt before a big black-walnut chest and hunted through its contents until she found an old-fashioned cook book.

  32. She hunted until she found the old trail, then followed it stumbling over logs and through clinging vines and grasses.

  33. Instead of selling any of her collection, she must hunt as she never before had hunted and find a Yellow Emperor.

  34. When she realized this and hunted assiduously, she soon found that changing natural conditions had affected such work.

  35. Throwing these beside the back door she climbed to the loft over the spring house, and hunted an old lard oil lantern and one of first manufacture for oil.

  36. Philip leaned back against the arbour, watching the grosbeak as it hunted food between a tomato vine and a day lily.

  37. The levees have been in some places troubled with beaver, which, however, are now hunted for their fur, and will not long be troublesome.

  38. Returning to the palace, they assured the chief that they had hunted in the mountains.

  39. I suppose you hunted buffalo in the old days," said Garth to old Paul.

  40. He hunted for 'em night and day; and he come to be known as the best provider in the tribe.

  41. In the preceding winter he and Mr. Brainerd had hunted deer, and both remembered a romantic spot where there was a natural cavern, not very deep, which they availed themselves of for shelter when overtaken by a driving snow-storm.

  42. I should certainly have seen them, for I hunted everywhere.

  43. A rigid casuist might question the truthfulness of my statement to the Secession ferryman; but a man fleeing for his life, and hunted by a relentless enemy, has not much time to settle questions in casuistry.

  44. Connolly became a martyr for his principles, whilst Larkin has been hunted from one end of the world to the other because of his doctrines, undoubtedly of an extremely revolutionary character.

  45. I have hunted all over Arizona, New Mexico and across the border.

  46. He hunted an' called, but thar wa'n't no answer.

  47. And since that night Rabbit and Fox have never hunted together.

  48. And the Chief said, "Because of your success, you will never be hunted for game or killed for food.

  49. The boy hunted all day long and provided much food, and the girl kept the house in order and did the cooking.

  50. With nose close to the ground, powerful jaws dropping and parched tongue hanging out of its mouth, it was heading straight for the clump of gorse where cowered the hunted man.

  51. The latter knew that a hunted man was in hiding in the smith's forge, he had taken a message from the man to the lady at Stretton Hall, now he knew for certain that the fugitive was the Earl of Stretton.

  52. I must hide now like a hunted beast, and must be grateful for the sheltering roof of honest Stich.

  53. Obviously every moment, during which the captors enjoyed their mistaken triumph, was a respite gained for the hunted man out on the Heath.

  54. The rest of the family, having discussed him with the freedom his absence warranted, hunted the house from garret to cellar, hoping to light upon the crystal.

  55. Uya was punishing them, because they had not hunted down Ugh-lomi and Eudena.

  56. And the hunters hunted ill: in the warm spring-time hunger came again as though it was still winter.

  57. What if he hunted up Mwres and told him of their disaster?


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