20 examples of hunkered in sentences

My legs gave under me, for they were still very feeble, and I sat hunkered up on the sward like the others.

The house is a hunker; but w'at's the use of a house without a farm?" "What is a 'hunker,' please?" inquired Louise, curiously.

The house is a hunker; but w'at's the use of a house without a farm?" "What is a 'hunker,' please?" inquired Louise, curiously.

"Why, there's a rumor of a house, and the rumor says it's a hunker," replied Mr. Merrick, in a voice that betrayed a slight uneasiness.

They kicked off their webs and piled the salvaged wood into the other end of the cabin, after which they hunkered down before the fire to drink tea and eat pemmican and bannocks.

He grinned and hunkered down, his ears on the stretch.

Later he removed his boots, stuffed them full of hay, and hunkered down behind a dismounted wagon-seat over which a wagon-cover had been flung.

Racey hunkered down and sat on a spurless heel.

And after acting like more kinds of a fool thataway in less time than anybody I ever see before, you sit up on yore hunkers and tell me I'll have more'n I can swing at the finish.

Then he crawled over the sill and hunkered down on the uncarpeted floor.

When we turned a bend in the road, to enter the first recognizable street of Liege, he was still hunkered down there in the rain.

It was a beauteous shot, and sent the fellow to his hunkers, actually boohooing with agony.

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Another party, possessing the equally euphonical name of "Old Hunkers," are thus described:"Standing midway between this wing of the Democracy and the Whig party, is that portion who have taken upon themselves the comfortable title of 'Old Hunkers.'

Another party, possessing the equally euphonical name of "Old Hunkers," are thus described:"Standing midway between this wing of the Democracy and the Whig party, is that portion who have taken upon themselves the comfortable title of 'Old Hunkers.'

"Some odorous," he commented to a mud-caked private hunkered down on his heels on the fire-step with his back against the trench wall.

They "speak for Buncombe," are Barn-Burners, Old Hunkers, Hard Shells, Soft Shells, Log-Rollers, Pipe-Layers, Woolly Heads, Silver Grays, Locofocos, Fire-Eaters, Adamantines, Free Soilers, Freedom Shriekers, Border Ruffians.

Jawbone and Hairyman and Lowbrow, of the Stone Age, would be at home there, squatting on their hunkers and tearing at their raw kill with their long incisors.

Their dance, barefooted and with a minimum of veils, swayed into sinuous beauty to the monotonous music of kettle-drums, long red flutes and guitars of sand-tortoise shell with goat-skin headsmusic furnished by a dozen Arabs squatting on their hunkers half-way down the hall.

I shall not forget his eyes as he turned to a huge, brown, Afreedee-like Mussulman hunkering down beside his accoutrements.

20 examples of  hunkered  in sentences