How to Use hunch in a Sentence

hunch

1 of 2 verb

• He hunched his shoulders as he headed out into the storm.
• Soon, a man hunched with age came to the door with his walker.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2019
• Kate and Paul had both hunched down out of the woman’s sight line.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Images of his back and hunched shoulders fill the frame.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the chart room, Isler sat hunched over a laptop, his t-shirt dark with sweat.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• One man looms over the other, who is hunched in a chair, his head bent low.
  — Alexandra Peers, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
• In the wee hours of the morning, I was hunched over the bathroom sink, just me, my blouse, my jeans and a pair of socks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• At the back of the stage, a 14-year-old in black heels hunched her shoulders and tried to shrink into the shadows.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• The further your shoulders hunch, the more strain there is on the mid-back (thoracic spine).
  — Ben Walker, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
• The bed is at hip height to minimize time spent bent or hunched over.
  — Janae McKenzie, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2023
• In the black-and-white photo, Gomez leaned back while Blanco hunched over to plant a kiss on her lips.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
• But in the middle of this tumult, a woman hunched over an iPhone oozes calm.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2018
• More than a hundred men milled around in the dusk, hunching into heavy sweaters to ward off the chill.
  — Mohammad Ali, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
• You’re at the airport or school and everyone is hunched over.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2019
• Plop your laptop on the kitchen table (or hunch over it on your couch), grit your teeth and get to work.
  — Whitson Gordon, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
• To walk meant to move hunched over, slowly, both hands holding your hat.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• That might, for a different team, have been the cue to sit back, to hunch its shoulders and grit its teeth.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• So much of Lizzy is very internal and kind of closed off and a little bit hunched over.
  — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Your shoulders will hunch forward and your body will ache.
  — Carla Ciccone, The New Yorker, 12 June 2021
• His father slumped in his seat, hunched over as each guilty verdict came in.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• His son later found his mom hunched over in a nearby barn, impaled on the rake.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• One of the Chobe Angels is hunched over her truck, and Nthobatsang and others rush to help.
  — Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
• Downstage, Brooks hunched over and pinched his eyes, a swell of emotion threatening to burst the dam.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 9 June 2019
• Krar is sitting next to his wife, and his shoulders are hunched forward.
  — Christine Fennessy, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• Marsh said, hunched over a laptop as the bus eased down Drumm Street at 5:15 p.m on Tuesday, already a third full.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The deputy does not appear to react initially and stays hunched over the table.
  — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• These days, his gait is halting; his shoulders are hunched.
  — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Once the DBs have cleared your knees, check that your back is still flat and spine and neck are long, not hunching forward and rounding.
  — Erin Warwood, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
• People who nodded off and died after taking opioids are often found hunched over with their legs curled under them.
  — Natalie Kitroeff Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• After making their way through some photo ops and video interviews, the winners take to the (much smaller) stage in the press room to field a few questions from the reporters who are assembled elbow-to-elbow and hunched over their laptops.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024

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hunch

2 of 2 noun

• My hunch is that the stock is going to go up in value.
• And sure enough, her hunch led them to the missing gear.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• That view is something more than a hunch on the part of Democrats.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• Time will tell whether the Panthers are good on their hunch.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• Knight had those muddy boots — and a hunch was about to pay off.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2022
• My hunch is to delete the Bluetooth share data and then pair the phone from scratch.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Follow your own star near the 7th and 9th and trust your hunches.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 July 2023
• On a hunch that the area was clear, Rocky charged in and sets up a few chairs behind a makeshift blind.
  — Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
• Or heck, just taking a hunch on a dirt road and finding out what’s at the end of it.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2021
• My hunch is that neither will the folks who decide the Emmys.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
• The White House shares the hunch that the pessimism has a lot to do with media coverage.
  — Laura Gersony, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• After 50 cards, a hunch began to tell them which deck was safer.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• Adams, Klotz and their colleagues set out to test if their hunch was correct.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
• Of course, her hunch that Morgoth’s brand of evil will return proves right.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2022
• No hunches like the one that told him to bet $223 of his paper-route money on a stranger’s choke point.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• To confirm that hunch, Wilde and colleagues fed hydrilla to mallards in the lab.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The hunch here is that ownership was fine with quasi-contention.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• This confirms my hunch that my dream of doing this needs to remain a dream.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• Just a hunch, but the new manager probably doesn’t work for the Guardians at this time.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• My hunch that something had gone very wrong had been correct.
  — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• Davies had a hunch that all these features helped dogs survive in the presence of lions.
  — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• But Bethany had a hunch that Boaz, now 29, was someone of high integrity.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• The hunch here is that Payton could care less about making the Jets' – or anybody’s – bulletin board.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• But what’s your hunch about why people are being drawn to Stoicism?
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 31 May 2021
• Call it a hunch, call it the truth, or better yet, call it mockery of those who were oh-so-impatient.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• For now, much about these galactic ecosystems is still a hunch.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• Even the pros consult them at times, to verify a hunch, and double-down on an opinion.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
• McCarthy stuck with her first instinct, while Scherzinger swapped her guess for Tyrese, a hunch Metz endorsed.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
• If your hunch was on point, Graye says, the dish should be entirely remade, not just heated up in the oven or microwave.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• Trust your hunch in a financial matter as the moon and Uranus harmonize.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024