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
• During the heat of the day, the caterpillars tend to hunker down close to the soil under the canopy of the grass, says Waltz.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2024
• But in January, the two sides hunkered down on the business at hand.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• And when the pack hunkers down in old ways of working, everyone else does too.
  — Shani Harmon, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Both have an in-room sink, restroom, and shower, and larger abodes to hunker down in than the smaller roomettes.
  — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2023
• Luckily, her neighbor in the artist colony where she was hunkered down owned an art store, and opened it for Di Novi.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• New bass will find the beds in the meantime, and then those fish will often hunker down near the beds and wait for the perfect opportunity to strike.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
• 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
• Joe and her team pulled to a stop in the middle of a main drag, then hunkered down inside the Suburban and behind its doors to pick off adversaries.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Oct. 2024
• Nathan Sultana, a junior, was hunkered down in a classroom unsure of what was going on.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The share of companies taking more than one step to hunker down ahead of the election also rose to 11% from 6% in the second quarter, the survey that closed Sept. 6 found.
  — Jonelle Marte, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
• The incident caused multiple counties to hunker down and schools to close.
  — Killian Baarlaer, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• Instead of hunkering down behind a rock or in a hole, stained water gets trout moving.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
• Empty nesters, who might have preferred to downsize, hunkered down in their houses.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 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
• The official advised residents to shelter in place and hunker down.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024