How to Use hunt in a Sentence

hunt

1 of 2 verb
  • He likes to hunt and fish.
  • The wolf was hunting its prey.
  • She hunted around in the closet for a pair of shoes.
  • These birds have been hunted almost to extinction.
  • Police hunted the escaped prisoners through several states.
  • Wild dogs have to hunt for food in ranch or wild lands.
    David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
  • To hunt, these creatures likely stood on the seafloor, heads held aloft.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The world’s largest predators, sperm whales spend most of their lives hunting.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • White sharks are known to hunt for seals in shallow water close to shore.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • Cook said the call came from the fourth person in the group, a friend who lives in the area and invited the other three to hunt hogs.
    Skye Seipp, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Bass are stationary, which means a gar would have to hunt them down.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
  • But one of the most spectacular ways orcas hunt straddles the land and the sea.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Is a large, hairy beast with pointy teeth and sharp claws hunting you for its dinner?
    The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
  • Daniele Busca tells of a client who went hunting for rugs to match the artwork in his new kitchen.
    Julie Lasky, ELLE Decor, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And Trump kept calling — four times through Dec. 14, once while Shirkey was up in a tree stand, hunting.
    Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The ice soon breaks up for the season, and the colony’s newest members can safely follow the adults into the ocean to hunt.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Germany is one of the E.U.'s largest importers of hunting trophies.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • His grandson was also hunting in the area at the time, ABC 12 News reports.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The two were going to light out from Half Moon Bay on Thursday morning to hunt some deep-sea giants for most of the day.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The state reduced the bag limit to one bull and shortened the winter hunting season by a full two months.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • Go hunting for waterfalls, with a tour guide or on your own.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But these sharks do venture into deep, chilly water to hunt.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
  • And remember, in some ways hunting pressure isn’t a bad thing.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Launched in December, the Lunar Flashlight was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole.
    Marcia Dunn, ajc, 12 May 2023
  • Giovani Santillan has been hunting for a big fight for a long time.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • He’ll be hunted by ninjalike figures for the next 30 days.
    Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • By late October, the pups begin traveling with the pack and learning to hunt.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Rodents: Mice, rats, shrews, chipmunks, and squirrels will eat most of the ticks that latch onto them and, in some cases, hunt them down.
    Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But investors continued to hunt for weak links for much of the week, dumping shares of midsize and smaller banks.
    Gina Heeb, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • Masisi told Bild that Germany’s Green party could learn to cohabitate with elephants without hunting them.
    Nadine Schmidt, Sarah Dean and Ingrid Formanek, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
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hunt

2 of 2 noun
  • They went on a hunt.
  • We finally found a good restaurant after a long hunt.
  • The hunt for the Blue Room Christmas tree begins at the farm.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Others have come with me on my hunts for the past decade or more.
    Nancy Jo Adams, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • But the hunt is still difficult—both because of the search area and the vagaries of the sea.
    WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • The good news is that a break in a house hunt doesn’t signal the end of your dreams of home ownership.
    Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Early starts to catch the game before the heat of the day, and evening drives to find them as the shadows creep in and the hunts begin.
    Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Propst filmed the hunt with help from his friend and videographer Joe Orf.
    Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The day before their hunt, Orwig went to the farm to do some last-minute scouting.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
  • To them, the hunt is about more than having and displaying dolls.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • One of these hunts was a success as three chicks were seen dead and four more were missing.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • For some, the appeal of thrift shopping lies in the thrill of the hunt and the joy of finding items that are totally unique.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The episodes also breathed well and did not get bogged down in too many advantages and idol hunts.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • Dry them out after every hunt and relube with oil to keep the bases smooth.
    Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • Of course there’s no sugar-coating the difficulties of the hunt now.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
  • So what happened in a horrendous half to open the 49ers’ NFC title hunt?
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The hunt continues until the group comes across Callie, who shoots Lottie in the arm with her gun.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
  • The Orioles sniffed a bit of success last year having been in the playoff hunt until the final days.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Sep. 2023
  • If the thrill of the hunt is your idea of fun, Surfside is good for more than just beachcombing and shell collecting.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Rory McIlroy had two quick birdies and stayed in the hunt with a 69, leaving him one shot behind the co-leaders.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • For many more hunters across the world, a giant bull moose represents the greatest of all bucket list hunts.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In her 1970 world, tweens were obsessed with the hunt for knowledge about what growing up entails.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • And as the hunt for a spot in the postseason heats up, expect to see more upsets as the underdogs begin to hunt.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Travis Kelce may be getting in on Taylor Swift's Easter egg hunts.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The mission was billed purely as a hunt for the Titanic, and media was kept entirely in the dark.
    Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
  • If your dad turkey hunts, this clothing system is for him.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • Last year also marked the first time an all-female team won the hunt, according to the media outlet.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Invading the herds helps the wolves hunt rodents, though the benefits for the Geladas aren't abundantly clear.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This progress began in Mesopotamia with a hunt for periodic patterns in historical data.
    Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Deploying drones and other remote sensing technologies could hasten the hunt.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024

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