hunky

Example Sentences

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Other sports are full of hunky types, and football and basketball players are more likely to have all their teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

You come out of the theater realizing that your hunky idol had negligible screen time — at least you think so.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

"We have a further letter, and that's from HMP Blundeston, and a signed photograph of Reggie lifting some weights and looking quite hunky," he added.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024

In the hit TV show, the character Sydney Adamu, a Black unapologetically ambitious sous-chef, is attempting to help the show’s hunky, emotionally touchy male protagonist transform his dead brother’s sandwich shop into a Michelin-star restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Instead of stepping back, the big hunky fellow sneered and said, “Thet with the string was jest a lucky shot. You cain’t do it agin.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns