276 examples of hunching in sentences

He had transformed himself into the ragged hobo by the jerking down of his cap again, and the hunching of his shoulders.

" "You mean a hunch," said Frank, quietly.

"Yes, that's just what I have a hunch.

" "It's a poor hunch, unless it will tell you what is going to happen," declared Jack.

After that you can easily hunch along like I do, and get to the main trunk.

The giant was senseless and two reporters got astride of him, thinking it was a rail, and drifted ashore, while pa laid on his back and floated like a duck, and when we got him out we found he had a life-preserver under his coat, and he said he put it on because he had a hunch that those zebras would make for running water if they ever got beyond control.

What is more, I am dead certaincall it a hunch, if you likethat if he had had the use of his legs all these years, he'd have gone straight as a string where we are trying to get.

I've also a hunch, my boy, that there will be another claimant for the honors of this campaign.

I had a kind of a hunch that he liked him and believed in him.

I been piking around for a hunch for some time, and just the other evening I was out with a party who is interested in the bet placing business at all of the big tracks, and he said he was hep to a few killings, and any time I would come out he would give them to me and I could play the other books.

I had a hunch to grab the bundle and beat it for home and crawl under the bed.

And then I had another hunch that told me to stick for the big show.

I got a hunch that Wilbur is fixing to leave me in the outskirts, because I heard him say something about the foolishness of taking a cheese sandwich to a banquet.

A hunch might make him journey five hundred miles; a snort of his horse could make him give up the trail and turn back.

" "I know it, but a hunch ain't proof in the eyes of the law.

I have a hunch that he can be depended on to back us up, for he's got a grudge against the man these fellows want to send back into the presidential chair.

Don Sanchez turned to me, hunching his shoulders.

"Some particularly long minutes passed, about this time; but I think my nerves must have quieted a bit; for I remember being sufficiently aware of my feelings, to realize that the muscles of my shoulders ached, with the way that they must have been contracted, as I sat there, hunching myself, rigid.

The second mate had turned away, with his hand over his mouth and a suspicious hunching of his shoulders, while the steward, who had been standing by, beat a hasty retreat and collapsed behind the chart-room.

The second mate had turned away, with his hand over his mouth and a suspicious hunching of his shoulders, while the steward, who had been standing by, beat a hasty retreat and collapsed behind the chart-room.

I have a hunch that this isn't going to be a cold trail.

" The hind legs moved forward, giving the effect of a huge cat-camel hunching his back preparatory to a spring.

With hideous squint the railer leered: on one foot he was lame; Forward before his narrow chest his hunching shoulders came; Slanting and sharp his forehead rose, with shreds of meagre hair.

" "With a trail of dead men behind him?" cried the doctor, hunching his shoulders as if to shake off a chill.

" "But that was only a measure of safety for yourself; you surely do not mean to take sides with my persecutors?" "I has nuffin at all to do wid it, at all," hunching her back; "I has gib you far warnin' 'bout de laudamy an' der retentions, an' you mus' fight it out yourself, chile!

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