How to Use hunks in a Sentence

hunks

noun

• Tatum, 41, wanted the hairpiece to pay homage to a range of iconic hunks.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022
• Be sure to tear the meat off the bone into thick, ragged hunks to better sop up the dressing.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Once the kill had been made, the groups divided up hunks of flesh and blubber from the slain blue whale to bring back to the rest of the group.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
• The creamy rice, flecked with little chunks of feta, and big hunks of shrimp will signal why.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• The food stalls have offerings such as radishes and huge hunks of roast pork.
  — Will Hawkes, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Others play pie-in-the-face with doormat-sized hunks of upturned sod.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• Serve in big hunks or torn pieces with cranberry jam or maple syrup (or both).
  — Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
• Serve warm, and let everyone pull the bread apart into hunks.
  — Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2022
• Serve this big salad with hunks of rough whole-wheat bread to sop up all the wonderful tidbits left in the bowl.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Fried and served in hunks with visible grains, the pieces look like twisted trunks of the coastal tea trees in Golden Gate Park.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Or how about carbonara -- a full-on carb load of pasta slathered in eggy, cheesy sauce with hunks of pecorino cheese?
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 18 June 2021
• Turkey, of course, and stuffing with water chestnuts and hunks of bread.
  — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 26 Oct. 2021
• The explosive pressure can break through the frozen cap, flinging hunks of icy ground for hundreds of feet.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2020
• In the movie Elliott and Wentworth are two dueling hunks.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 July 2022
• Smart locks have long existed as bulky hunks of metal and plastic that transform the look of your door—and not in a good way.
  — Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• Low-flying Russian planes bombed huge hunks out of apartment buildings on the main street.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 27 May 2022
• Franz recommends serving this with warm, crusty hunks of French bread.
  — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Nearby, Beals, who lost his knife down the trail, was liberating hunks of snow to melt by kicking the ground with his boot.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2021
• The $10 Amazon find creates long and slender hunks of ice that are the perfect size and shape for water bottles.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• Some have broken off, hunks left beside them, and almost all of them are limestone.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
• Bibiano’s home state of Guerrero – has tender hunks of fatty, beefy brisket.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
• Instead of spending the better part of a day carving blades from hunks of rock, Neanderthals could find the tools by venturing to the beach.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
• Don’t expect any sides, just hunks of sweet lobster with minimal dressing in a bread roll.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 14 May 2021
• Giant hunks of mud calve from the banks to form islands, splitting the river into narrow channels that branch and bend.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2022
• This means white bread, but treated like chapati, torn by hand and wrapped around the hunks of chicken, potato and tangled onions.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Kitty Pappas, who for almost 75 years ran the kitchen of the iconic Woods Cross steakhouse that bore her name and served big hunks of sirloin and slices of cake, has died.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• Sibert had logged thousands of hours there, a sometimes overwhelming station where the hunks of meat and bone came so fast her hands would swell.
  — USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
• On a rack beside the smokehouse, several more spoiling fish hunks hung limp.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
• These are chewing insects that either take hunks out of leaves or create tunnels.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2022
• Alas, there was no time in the rush of the once-weekly dinner service, as plates of jellied pork terrine and fingers of buttery shortbread next to hunks of soft goat cheese landed on each table.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 14 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024