hunker down
Example Sentences
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A little more than 35 years ago, on Jan. 13, 1991, Mr. Landsbergis was hunkered down in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius in a bulletproof vest waiting for Soviet forces to storm the building.
The couple hunkered down with 15 other people, including a man in his 80s and a mother with her 1-year-old daughter.
From Los Angeles Times
Many people here are just hunkering down and waiting, hoping for better times.
From BBC
"I went over and there were quite a few people there at that point. They were trying to coax them out the car but they had hunkered down and were trying to sleep."
From BBC
Still, with below-freezing temperatures across parts of the country, viewers hunkered down and stayed tuned in to the game.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
