How to Use hunker down in a Sentence

hunker down

phrasal verb

• And there goes the rear again, hunkering down as the clutch takes up.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• The Inuit rangers told the platoon to pitch their tents and hunker down.
  — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• But in January, the two sides hunkered down on the business at hand.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Bloody stretchers leaned against the wall at the entrance, and soldiers were hunkered down under the trees.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Makes a person want to hunker down in some retro motel room and listen to the radio.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Maybe not, because we’ve been hunkered down in our houses a lot thanks to record-breaking snow.
  — Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 28 Jan. 2024
• Shadow was meowing and hunkered down on a rotting tree limb near the top of a 30-foot tree, about a block from his house.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• When the tribe hunkers down for its daily repast, ritual and symbolism are the rule.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• Most Burners, however, were content to take the time to hunker down and connect with friends.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Another time, the Viet Cong sprayed the brush with gunfire near where his platoon was hunkered down for two hours.
  — Phil Davison, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• But 30 years ago, a whole generation of Americans learned how to dig in, hunker down, and take sides with their tribes.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
• Residents from San Jose to the Monterey coast were warned to hunker down on Saturday.
  — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• On the morning of May 1, the brothers were hunkered down in a house in an industrial area of Bakhmut, which they had been ordered to hold and defend.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Nathan Sultana, a junior, was hunkered down in a classroom unsure of what was going on.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Instead of hunkering down behind a rock or in a hole, stained water gets trout moving.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
• That could be a concerning signal that consumers are starting to reign in their spending and hunker down.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 19 July 2023
• But other Nigeriens have been making plans to hunker down or even to escape the capital.
  — Omar Hama Saley, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Instead, researchers have to forecast where a tornado might form and hunker down there.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Spacey and groovy, feels like a blast of icy morning air with the intimate coziness of hunkering down indoors on frigid days.
  — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• Cows hunkered down as a light rain fell on Cloudland Road, where a group of residents persuaded the town of Pomfret to close the road for three weeks at the height of foliage season.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• But Goodwin hunkered down and coaxed a fielder's choice for the first out of the inning, followed up by her 10th and 11th strikeouts of the game to help Desert Mountain win their first state title in softball.
  — Alex Chenevey, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
• Instead, the women were relegated to hunkering down over the glass plates.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• So if your internal clock still tells you to hunker down and read, here is good fiction ranging from a carnival to Hubert Humphrey.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• For the recording, the band hunkered down with their longtime engineer Steve Christensen’s studio in their hometown of Houston, Texas.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
• For swaths of millennials, hunkering down with family gave them breathing room to save for a home.
  — Eli Tan, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• At the day’s end, travelers can take in the city views from the rooftop cocktail bar or hunker down for dinner and live music at the garden-adjacent Restaurante del Parque.
  — Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• Jean ended up working in her father’s office, while Callie hunkered down in a bedroom.
  — Kate Dwyer, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Americans armed with cash from stimulus checks and hunkering down at home went on spending sprees.
  — Paul Davidson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2024
• Carnivores should also rejoice at Mia’s, one of Dallas’ long-standing Tex-Mex joints with the bright walls and the ability to hunker down behind a carafe of salsa.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024