How To Use Haunch In A Sentence

He rises quickly from the water, licks his haunches, and stands erect on short back legs.
After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches. Brave New World
I sat back on my haunches, breathing heavily, and casting what I could only imagine to be the fiercest glower of animosity I'd ever bestowed upon another human being.
It means we can never sit back on our haunches and think we have it made. Christianity Today

And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
At this time of year, we are often the recipients of a freshly shot brace of pheasant or a wild haunch of venison.
In a cottage garden the dog, high on his haunches at the length of his chain, cocked his ears towards the huswife in the wash-house, hoping against hope for a miracle. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
Lean ‘collops’ - thin steaks - are cut from a haunch and larded with strips of salt bacon fat.
It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
I can hear the rain beating down on the roof like a meteor shower as our car lurches violently from side to side, rocking disobediently on its haunches, fat tyres chafing loudly over what appears to be a long, shallow pond.
Her confrontation of the insatiable satyr while he has his hand up another honey's haunches is the sole moment of real emotion in what is otherwise a movie of surfaces.
It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
Folding his coat beneath him, he knelt down and sat back on his haunches at the foot of the grave, facing the headstone.
He had tucked his palms under his haunches. Somewhere East of Life
Ask the wretched hunter of chevreuil, the poor devourer of rehbraten, what they think of the noble English haunch, that, after bounding in the Park of Knole or Windsor, exposes its magnificent flank upon some broad silver platter at our tables? The Fitz-Boodle Papers
A hart pass.ppr. horned, membered and hurt in haunch with arrow or feathered ar. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
He had tucked his palms under his haunches. Somewhere East of Life
My bed faces the river so as by perking up upon my haunches, and supporting my carcase with my elbows, without much wrying my neck, I can see the white sails glide by the bottom of the King's Bench walks as I lie in my bed. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
He did not press the issue, the warm roasted haunch of a rabbit she placed before him finally capturing his full attention.
Leaning back on his haunches, he considered his options. Earl of Durkness
He gazed ruminantly away from the lagoon to the pool of Psyche, where the Tahitian women squatted on their shapely haunches and thumped their clothes. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
He broke off to kick one of the mules on the haunch as it stamped uneasily towards the side.
A good workhorse, it was always said, should be well put together with powerful haunches as well as being short-coupled, which meant it must have a short back from withers to tail head.
He went bye with a waff of wind in his plaiding, and his haunch-man as he passed at a discreet distance got the double share of jibe and glunch from the mariners. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye.
First to his knees, then his haunches, and then dropping forward in the dirt, pointing his whole body at me like an accusatory finger.
With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests — an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition — what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all. The Fortunes of Nigel
Animal haunches – otherwise known as hams – need no comment. Attacotti
George sat on his haunches, biting his lip inside the mask.
The creature let out what sounded like a tired sigh, dropping down on her haunches.
It shows its whites, its ears flicking, its haunches trembling - it senses their stalker nearby as well - but it is a good horse and stands its ground with him.
In honour of my fellow Yellowknifer Janet Pacey and her unabashed love of ptarmigans I finally got off my haunches (which is defined as “the fleshy hindquarter of an animal” – definitely suitable) and got some ptarmigan shots. Ptarmigan Town » Dave Brosha Photography
Her horse was back on its haunches, the weight of her body on the reins; but her head was turned and her eyes were on the falling Comanche. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
With a rush of strength she slashed the whip across the harnessed mule's haunches.
Another starter of pan-fried haunch of venison had enough well - hung pink meat to constitute a main course.
Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them ‘ware haunch!’ Waverley
I decided on roast haunch of venison with a sweet potato rosti and wild mushroom and red wine sauce.
I sat on my haunches, watching, no longer cold and soaked, my undercoat still dry and snug as a mackintosh.
Hasselt (has'elt), a town in Belgium. haunch (hanch), the hip, part of body between the ribs and thigh. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
Her mate would normally have done the hunting then, bringing whole birds or a pademelon or the bloody haunch of a kangaroo to the lair. Hunting the Thylacine
The next morning the untouched haunch of venison is on the breakfast table, now cooked to Paivikki's satisfaction, but cold.
After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp. Celtic Fairy Tales
The saucy Hauncher and saucier Miracle-Jones are ready for their reality TV close-up. Sunset Daze: WEtv's 'Jersey Shore' For The Senior Set
Ginny dropped down to her haunches and folded her arms against her sides like wings, honking in a goosy way. MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- LIFE WITH SMALL CHILDREN, 1991 TO 1993
To follow, my fiancée selected the pan-fried haunch of venison with red cabbage.
That's great news, since it means we no longer have to buy a haunch of venison large enough to feed a party of 12, but can now buy a couple of venison steaks for midweek suppers.
I've opted for roe deer as the size of the haunch, similar to a leg of lamb, is a perfect size for roasting.
The days when they matter singe hair color; they cool touch, seat cushion declension from beaten haunches craving rest. Lawn Clippings
With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests -- an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition -- what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all. The Fortunes of Nigel
Victor Hugo, we learn, could demolish a dozen oranges and two haunches of beef at any meal.
The sight of her, as she stood "akimbo," her hands resting upon her enormous haunches, only strengthened the sinister impression, which was still further confirmed by my observing that it had caused a similar effect elsewhere -- upon The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
When the paunch is to be punctured, the animal must be stabbed with a knife (a penknife will do) midway between the haunch-bone and the last rib of the left side; and the opening should be prevented from closing, by the introduction of a tin tube or something of that kind, till the gases are dispelled. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The design themes - the long pointed nose, curved waistline and raised haunches, the raked roofline and the proportion of roof to body and the pinched-in waist, most apparent in plan view.
My father cussed, brandishing a fallen stick and rapping him across his haunches.
The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly. Celtic Fairy Tales
We get ours from Chris Haseldon, a man who treats his produce with the same respect a fish supplier would accord to his line-caught sea bass or a game supplier to a beautiful haunch of venison.
As Simon strolled pensively through a little silvan glade, surrounded on either side with tall forest trees, mixed with underwood, a white doe broke from the thicket, closely pursued by two deer greyhounds, one of which griped her haunch, the other her throat, and pulled her down within half a furlong of the glover, who was something startled at the suddenness of the incident. The Fair Maid of Perth
Sensing movement might help keep a fly from remaining in one place for very long, the same way the tail of a cow might help "shoo" the fly from its stationary position on the haunch, but does that mean flies go away or does it mean they just buzz around and land again somewhere else nearby? Repel Flies With A Bag Of Water | Lifehacker Australia
The plate was absolute eye candy, featuring the stuffed haunch at centre surrounded by a starburst of alternating green and orange purées.
And our name shall be a cannon-shot, before which your Lodge, in the pleasantness whereof ye take pastime, shall be blown into ruins; and we will be as a wedge to split asunder the King's Oak into billets to heat a brown baker's oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
She sighed and sat back on her haunches before settling into a kneeling position.
Shortly, he said, we would see the dog's handler take a hold on her haunches and install her in her appointed trap, backside first.
As she approached the six she saw others at the far goal sit oil their haunches and grin at her.
The actual gargoyle itself was much shorter; it was hunched forward, claws raised in front of its shoulders and haunches tucked up underneath.
Flesh forks for boiled haunches of meat that looked like torture instruments, were forged out of billets of iron, whereas cauldrons were made out of sheets of iron, that were overlapped and riveted.
Silently, an immense silhouetted squirrel crouches on its haunches munching on a nut.
For their food they prefer nuts to herbage, which is natural enough in a region where the latter is scanty and the former exists in plenty; and in eating they "squat" upright on their haunches, and convey the food to their mouth after the manner of squirrels. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
Ostrich feathers enveloped everything, covering the abbreviated bolero jackets, squashed between two gauzy layers of tulle on the second-skin gowns and sprouting from the hips or haunches of catsuits in racy black lace. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
And the human voice, the voice of a god, issuing from the throat of the tiny, snow-white bird, had made Michael go back on his haunches, while, with eyes and nostrils, he quested the steerage for the human who had spoken. CHAPTER XI
Siabra turned obediently to leave and Diego slapped his horn against her haunches, dodging her buck as he sent her off in a gallop toward the main road.
Explain how to walk around a horse at least 2 arm-lengths away from the horse's haunches and tail.
Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
We got lost in a forest and Scottish Frank came and found us, placing a hand on Shinto's trembling haunch and a cold beer in my hot palm.
A mail order box of a Swiss-cut haunch, roe loin steaks and diced meat is under an introductory offer until 30 October of £39.
Lighting also differs between the spaces, from diffused light in the narrow galleries to reflected light onto the concrete haunches of the wider galleries.
His superb muscles tensed, great shoulders hunched, haunches low.
They were built like cattle, with thick necks and big haunches.
The animal's body had been truncated cleanly just in front of its haunches.
Camel trekking is an activity that matches man with a foul-tempered, humpbacked beast that sinisterly hisses and cavalierly drops to its haunches when it no longer feels compelled to carry you. Dunes Struck
Hi, I’ve takenaphoto of the horsephonic mounted, note that there’s no saddle as I’ve sold it to a friend4 years ago, so the components are not very well positioned and the breeching behind the haunches is a bit too low, however, I’ve turned the thing on and played one program while I was posing. Horse-O-Phonic 8-track saddlebag system « raincoaster
I wasn't listening however, being too absorbed in my main order, haunch of venison, fondant potato, wild mushrooms, garlic puy lentils and pancetta.
Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them, like men carrying out a complex fitness programme.
Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds. The Monastery
The arch is, however, not without its peculiar weakness. The lateral thrust is strongest at the haunches of the arch (the part midways between the crown and the springing).
It means we can never sit back on our haunches and think we have it made. Christianity Today
The thrust of the barrel vault is strongest at the haunches of the arch and is, of course, continuous for its whole length.
The bandolero caught up the packhorse's leadrope but the packhorse balked and squatted on its haunches.
Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that’s the haunch and the nombles, and e’en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds.” The Monastery
The 1.8-litre turbo has contemporary flush headlights and beefed-up haunches, the oval mouth replaced by a cheeky smile.
Her mate would normally have done the hunting then, bringing whole birds or a pademelon or the bloody haunch of a kangaroo to the lair. Hunting the Thylacine
So he sat on his haunches, conspicuously in an open space, and challenged the hawk down out of the sky. The Law of Meat
A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
They were average specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of a prodigious size. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
The wide rear haunches of the car create a muscular stance further emphasised by the rear window whose shape runs counter to that of most cars on the road in being distinctly tapered from top to bottom.
The rat sat up on his haunches and casually licked a trickle of blood from his paw before using it to flip Sweet Tooth the bird and darting off down the hall. Snap
Its flamboyant chefs - toques in place - skewer haunches of game meat (the rhino, the giraffe, the zebra, the wildebeest, the hippo, the crocodile, the deer, the ostrich!) over slow fire in its show kitchen.
At first sight, it seems hyena-esque, haunches lower than hackles, kind of shifty-looking. Times, Sunday Times
Improvised fibre rope leashes were around their necks and the owner, who was sitting on his haunches, dragging at a beedi with great determination, held the other ends.
A strengthening concrete haunch / slab was then cast over the arches before a textile and thick PVC-type waterproofing membrane was laid on the concrete bed.
His arms and legs were thin as sticks, ribs clearly visible, belly flattened almost to his spine, bones angled sharply against the skin of his starved haunches.
King’s Oak into billets to heat a brown baker’s oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch. Woodstock
How do you cut up and wrap a haunch of venison without water?
And I'm back, having kicked the dog in the haunches and sent him off whimpering.
The bear, with the politeness which appeared to cling to all classes of society in this effetely civilized West, rose up and sat on his haunches, facing his visitor. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
But, when agility is needed for quick stops, starts, jumping, quick rotations, carriage on the back haunches is desired.
They are easily ten times stronger than a human of similar height: no steroids could make a man accumulate such muscle mass on shoulders, back and haunches.
The need to hide the folding roof means the rear haunches are higher than the coupé's and arguably not as well integrated into the car's shape.
Now Aguila dropped to his haunches and seemed to be studying the floor, as if the sawdust were a spread of tea leaves in which he could read Zorrillo's location. The Black Ice
After a year of harvest mornings, I could hunker down on my haunches and duckwalk along a row, my sharp knife flashing. The Dirty Life
Whole haunches of animal meat were hanging from the wagon, more lay in sizzling rows on those grills.
Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones — the long and narrow passage — the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called “callosities,” dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the Essays
You can sink down on your haunches, which is a little archaic but can be used in fantasy I suppose, though I'm not sure what the connotations are there. Weekly
Biltong is traditionally made from strips of springbok or kudu haunch, herbed, salted and left to cook-dry in the sweltering African sun.
Let it be added that there are no valves in the arteries, and that dogs, oxen, etc., have invariably valves at the divisions of their crural veins, in the veins that meet towards the top of the os sacrum, and in those branches which come from the haunches, in which no such effect of gravity from the erect position was to be apprehended. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
Tears streamed down my face as Joel made his final attempt to ward the cat off before I picked up Joel's gun, only feet away from my toes, and shot the cat in its haunches.
Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones -- the long and narrow passage -- the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called "callosities," dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the Orang, as in Man! On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
IT WAS October 1998, and the cows were rubbing their haunches against the walls of my caravan, making it wobble.
I heard the word "hunker" = squat on your haunches (I think Richard Boone used that in a movie somewhere). Fads of the Fifties
A dish guaranteed to tickle M. Chirac's tastebuds, he said, would be Pancetta-wrapped haunch of Fort William venison with wild mushrooms en croute in a tarragon sauce.
In the daytime they either lie among the aquatic plants, or openly feed on the turf plain. 25 When viewed at a distance, from their manner of walking and colour they resemble pigs: but when seated on their haunches, and attentively watching any object with one eye, they reassume the appearance of their congeners, cavies and rabbits. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Horses are huge, haunch heavy behemoths, built for speed and damn near poetry in motion.
When he thought I had suffered enough, he reached into his trousers and brought out a giant slab of dried kudu haunch.
George sat on his haunches, biting his lip inside the mask.
He's squatting on his haunches, scooting along and slowing his descent by holding to the plants.
When ‘Lil’ laid down to foal, her haunches were against the wall, so within a few contractions the foal was stuck half in the mare and half in the wall.
I re-boiled water to make our morning's broth, and cut slabs of the smoked deer haunch, and brought out eggs, and we ate of this as the darkness began to fall.
I had come to suspect these anyhow — after so many decades, was he still looking to set his thin haunches on the hard ground of a graveyard, and in icy winter to boot? What Happened to the Baby?
David moved behind him and, kneeling up on his strong and muscled haunches, began to slowly massage David's back and shoulders.
He dropped to his haunches, his elbows on her desk.
There are also organic wines to sip with dishes such as haunch of wild venison. Times, Sunday Times
The girder trusses running in the north-south direction were designed as continuous trusses and had haunch ends at the column lines.
We'd seen the bike last week at the neighbor's, where it rested on its kick stand and all but swung its haunch in hipness. French Word-A-Day:
Naked men standing in clusters of three vomited on another naked man on his haunches. Ii Phaser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Fair enough, we should all be tightening our belts and it's good to know that the PM won't be tearing the legs off vast roast turkeys when we're all fighting for a rat haunch in the gutter but really, Gordon … "rumbledethumps"? Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
There are also organic wines to sip with dishes such as haunch of wild venison. Times, Sunday Times
Turn the shoulder or neck into a rich ragù sauce to serve with pappardelle pasta or roast the haunch or saddle. Times, Sunday Times
In this genre, they don't come more distinctive, and the haunchy swoop of the back end is a steroidal depiction of a toughie driving round the block.
In the commentary to her plate, d' Arconville described the chest of the female as narrower, the spine more curved, and the haunches and pelvis larger in women than in men.

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