hunched

Example Sentences

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“Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those,” she said, referring to the documentary’s director, R.J.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Six years earlier, I’d been hunched over a laptop in Melbourne, writing my way into a new career after selling my business.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026

Mr. Lane’s sadly sloping eyebrows, his hunched gait—as if awaiting another blow from a brutal universe—are physical expressions of a man who is doomed to defeat as soon as we see him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

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 • Feb. 6, 2026

I feel a tiny pang in my chest at the thought of her sitting here, looking out, her little frame hunched over in the chair, watching the world coming and going below.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler