hunch

Example Sentences

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He had to spread his legs as far as they would go and hunch over to keep from being blown back down the bank.

From Literature

To challenge that, he made Clark Kent a nerd, hunching his shoulders, making him sputter with nervousness.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.

From Barron's

I pushed my left arm through one sleeve, hunched my shoulders to get it over my back, and wriggled my right arm through the other sleeve.

From Literature

Monahan's own hunch centres on a subtype of the E. coli bacteria in the gut.

From Barron's