How to Use hunter in a Sentence

hunter

noun
  • Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The hunter shot the charging bear with a pistol, the release states.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • The hunters stand, holding their guns, in front of their kill: birds, by the hundreds.
    Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Over time, scuba divers and wreck hunters have claimed to have found the sunken ship.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Since then, the place has been embraced by both wine drinkers and ghost hunters.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The role-playing game of the same name follows a young hunter called Aloy.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Still, a hunter agreed to give one of the ear bones to Thewissen for research.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The sense of being at once hunter and prey feels primal.
    Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The fourth hunter, an unidentified man, went to his truck to call 911 and get help.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In all, the hunters killed 44 bison, including one of the largest bulls on record.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The hunter is moving; the dog is moving; the birds are moving; the gun is moving.
    WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The hunters handed over the moose skull and meat, court documents say.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The child was found dead after a group of hunters called to report a man in a sleeping bag on the side of the road.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For bargain hunters, Prime Day is often about the big deals.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • One of them, killed by a hunter in 2001, was probably wild.
    Catrin Einhorn Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • There is an old adage about being a hunter as opposed to the hunted.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Yet if every hunter thinks this way, the kill will not be made and the tribe as a whole will go hungry.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • House hunters, meanwhile, haven't seen their wages increase at the same pace.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The squirrel house is made of cedar and has a hunter-green composite roof.
    Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Dogs sniff out the quail, then a hunter flushes out the bird before shooting it.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • These hunters want an arrow that is quiet, durable, and hits like a ton of bricks.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • And doesn’t that Inuit hunter from a 1920s newsreel look like a dead ringer for Fred Armisen?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • For new bowhunters and youth hunters, a hub-style ground blind is invaluable.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Which means that Menzies has gone from hunted to hunter and back.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The suspect was then forced to leave their saw in the tree, where it was eventually found by the hunter who owned the stand.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Good luck to the hunters once Doritos brand loyalists pile on.
    M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This is a big reason archery hunters will be on elk one day and find their honey hole to be a ghost town the next.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Try the hunter’s plate stacked with brats, a fluffy pretzel, and other fixins.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Mortgage rates continue to hover near a 20-year high, while house hunters face near record high home prices.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • It can also be determined by their breed, as non-sporting dogs who aren't bred to be hunters are more likely to get along with cats.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024

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