How to Use hunky in a Sentence

hunky

adjective

• Matthew McConaughey has Ryan Reynolds to thank for his hunky new nickname!
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
• Even a date with the hunky Chase isn't enough to dissuade her from Joey.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• But in 2018, he was recast as this kind of hunky sailor.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
• Michael Sheen is the ex-husband who tries to woo her back from her hunky young live-in lover.
  — Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• What is the kicker that will make things not quite so hunky-dory?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Word spread about this hunky guy with the paranormal act.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The strong, silent type, Justin is hunky, poetic, and shoots deer off his back porch.
  — Nora Kenney, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
• An avalanche forecaster hooks up with a hunky park ranger in this new TV movie.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• But by next year wouldn't things be hunky dory, tariff-wise and all around?
  — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Kyle Selig was next to play the hunky football star in the Broadway musical.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• Move over, One Direction: There’s a new five-piece, British, hunky boy band in town.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
• But Craig was his own guy, surly, hunky, bat-eared and unpredictably coiled.
  — Michael Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
• That’s how the play comes across, that everything was hunky-dory.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• Vladimir Vladinski, in fact — a hunky new hire and novelist on the rise.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Rudy was handsome and hunky in a college-frat-boy sort of way with his two-day stubble and a mop of dark wavy hair.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• To Michelle, John is just a hunky, bearded, Speedo-wearing 30-year-old who's appeared out of nowhere to woo her.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2021
• An aspiring cooking-show host hooks up with a hunky chef in this new TV movie.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• In the short trailer, the stylish duo sets sail, sips cocktails on the beach and find some hunky men along the French Riviera to keep them company.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2016
• Everyone’s supposed to be hunky-dory and all smiles and all that stuff.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2022
• Who hasn't been inspired by a hunky rom-com hero or fierce leading lady?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Although the girls and the womenswear do get the bulk of the attention, the show has also become known for its hunky male models.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2017
• Things still aren't hunky dory between sisters Kyle Richards and Kathy Hilton.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• Elle and Emmett make a cute pair—or Paulette and her hunky package delivery guy.
  — Caylin Harris, Country Living, 6 Sep. 2019
• Hunky gentleman Will Hale is so well-suited for Annabelle that it’s like he was designed for her.
  — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2017
• The show implies that the worst possible outcome for Clare, 39, is that her quest to find a hunky fiancé could be delayed.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2020
• Oscar nominee Tom Hardy's hunky physique isn't just for the cameras.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• The first movie dealt with Big leaving Carrie at the altar, with a bird on her head for chrissakes, but in the second, things seemed hunky-dory.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• She's read enough books to know that the hunky guy ends up with the small-town gal who shows him there's more to life than work, not the type-A shark who lives for her career like Nora does.
  — Lucy Feldman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• After getting fired, and then dumped, a woman hooks up with a hunky Spanish chef in this new romcom.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
• A year later, the party boy returns to the scene only to watch in horror as his gay-gle gets snatched by a hunky killer in a speedo and a unicorn mask.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024