How to Use hunt down in a Sentence

hunt down

phrasal verb

• Round Top isn’t all shopping and hunting down the best finds, though.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
• The bad guys Clay is hunting down are not just purse snatchers.
  — Giancarlo Sopo, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• What happened to drive the girls to hunt down and slaughter one of their own is the heart of the series, after all.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Later in 2016, the group of researchers watched and filmed a wolf hunting down a harbor seal near the mouth of a creek.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
• Trying to hunt down the perfect gift for the traveler in your life?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• Once trained, T cells can travel anywhere in the body to hunt down danger.
  — Time, 26 June 2023
• Families tried to hide but were hunted down and killed in their homes.
  — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Israel will now likely go to great lengths to hunt down those involved.
  — Natan Sachs, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• Garp then retreats, pulling away his squad to hunt down the corrupt Captain Nezumi.
  — William Goodman, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Quiet Place series takes place in a world in which blind, monster-like aliens hunt down anything that makes a sound, ravaging the Earth.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
• Ugandan authorities for years have vowed to hunt down the ADF’s fighters at home and abroad.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• There’s no room for half measures in the story of a time-traveling elf boy hunting down a demon pig.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• The woman saw where Sonia was running and informed the man—Sonia knew she would be hunted down.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
• Authorities in the town said in a Facebook post Wednesday that the bear that carried out the attack had been hunted down and killed.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• Her directive: hunt down the founder’s killer and—more importantly—free up the billions of ‘dead money’ frozen in his will.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Singer-songwriter Jessie James Decker is no stranger to hunting down smart finds on Amazon.
  — Erin Johnson, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, a knife-wielding Mickey Mouse hunts down a group of young people whose trip to the arcade proved to be more similar to entering the Hunger Games arena.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024
• For more than a decade, she is hunted down by detective Priyonath Mukhopadhyay.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
• Their standard techniques simply wouldn't work in hunting down Red.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• Also in the news: The Pakistani government has vowed to hunt down those behind a bombing that killed at least 45 people and injured hundreds more.
  — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• The victim was hunted down by 15 people before he was thrown on his head, fracturing his skull according to a friend.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 19 Dec. 2023
• Rick Deckard, the bounty hunter who makes a living hunting down androids, is probably an android.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
• He’s tasked with hunting down a homicidal maniac, played by a blond, mugging Wesley Snipes.
  — Kabir Chibber, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• So some beekeepers are turning to GPS tracking devices and surveillance cameras to hunt down their hives.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• As on Android, there are numerous third-party apps that will do the job of hunting down and removing duplicate photos on your iPhone for you.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2024
• The sharp sound of clacking claves accompanies Mortensen’s character in the present day, hunting down the man who preyed on his wife during his military absence.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• And while some families have been hunting down school supply deals, others might not have enough to buy all the basic materials that schools don’t provide.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The trailer details a group of teenagers partying at an arcade when they are hunted down by someone wearing a Mickey Mouse costume.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 2 Jan. 2024
• Blue whales, hunted down to a mere 1 percent of their population, might have lost almost everything.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024