How To Use Hunch In A Sentence

And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
But he is still notably dishier than anyone who spends all day hunched at a desk could hope for. Times, Sunday Times
We should be basing our decisions on solid facts, not inclinations and hunches.
She hunched over the desk(Sentence dictionary), telephone cradled at her neck.
They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language. WATCHING: District 9

I am hunched against the biting wind, and all my possessions are next to me in a battered suitcase.
Sarah Pickin, 23, spotted the ancient piece of "confectionery" during a dig in north-west Finland, but had to check with colleagues whether her hunch was correct or if it was in fact a fossilised piece of animal dung. Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum | Impact Lab
Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
I visited the NTL Web site and entered my postcode-to-be to see if my hunch was right.
The term presentiment suggests a sense of foreboding, a vague feeling of danger, an intuitive hunch that something not quite right is about to unfold. ENTANGLED MINDS
Their range includes hunch-whistles, high squeaky or piping whistles, trills, and alarm screams.
He had a hunch something was about to happen. Times, Sunday Times
On a hunch, the researchers radioed the ground-based team and urged them to continue gathering data when the star re-emerged from behind Uranus.
My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
My hunch is that most middle-class people like me would somehow manage to stagger on. Times, Sunday Times
Upon one of the boughs, high off the ground, almost indiscernible from the night around it, a hunched form sat motionless, as if waiting.
As the sun beats down on Africa, a woman in a veld in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is hunched over her task - uprooting a species of flowering plant.
Sometimes selection has to have an element of hunch based on potential. Times, Sunday Times
One hallway gets smaller as you go, until finally you stand trapped and hunched; a Garden of Exile contains olive trees hidden in huge concrete planters with only the treetops visible, unreachably far overhead.
The cardo gobbo hunchbacked thistle is a perfect example. Where Health Springs Eternal
An icy blast of wind from the Arctic swirled down the hillside and froze the skin on his face. He grimaced, hunched his shoulders, and trudged on.
What we could see a store manager just kind of hunched over, standing up, sitting down, just in a daze at that point. CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2008
But I was lucky -- some of my choices were just hunches (though I've been a word origin buff all my life, which must count for something). Words, words, words ...
He hunched his shoulders to force his body away from the trembles.
Tim wound steadfastly, back hunched over the reel, unaccustomed to the strange combination of muscles and effort.
He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
I have a hunch we're heading for another economic spasm. Times, Sunday Times
This year, my hunch is that another great salad will be making its way around backyards and beaches in the West: It's the orzo with green beans, corn, and tomatoes on page 90.
He is superhigh. He hogged more of the weed than Hector and I and he is hunched like a pile of trash against the base of the altar.
Elham leaned forward with his shoulders slightly hunched, an attitude he often adopted in court. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
The thick-bodied, heavy-sinewed Gialaurys sat hunched on a backless bench to Prestimion ' s left. LORD PRESTIMION
But to my surprise, the futuristic seats don't actually spin round; we end up hunched awkwardly over the flashing armrests, gawping around and discussing the curious venue.
Standing beside him was a shrimpy photographer hunched in a suede car coat. PROSPECT HILL
Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
Unable to stand it, he hunched over completely, forehead touching the surface of the altar as he fought to control his cries of anguish.
He just suggested it out of the blue, and we followed it on a hunch.
His lithe body was hunched over the bike, eyes sparkling, face determined. Times, Sunday Times
The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair.
She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
This, in turn, leads to a flexed section of spine and a pronounced "kyphosis" - a curve in the lower back - creating the hunched posture that you have noticed. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
He hunched his legs up to his body and hugged them tightly to his chest as the night wind tore across him.
Through a clever process of hunching herself over and putting on a croaky voice she has actually managed to increase her age by an awe-inspiring 7 million years.
We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
Q As we follow up on what I think you called hunches earlier about who might be responsible, has the United States contacted any other governments for help in either trying to find certain individuals or touching base with certain organizations? Press Briefing By Colonel Crowley And Barry Toiv
The Len Hunchak Trio plays carols at Clearspring Centre to help create a festive mood.
I think my hunch was correct. Times, Sunday Times
Dr. Abou El Fadl looked, by the way, nothing like the image evoked by "Egyptian dissident," being kind of hunched over, diffident, mumbly, and short. Kenneth Hite's Journal
M. Anciot, and describes as a frightful old hunchback. Les Miserables
But, sometimes, you get a hunch and you make an exception. Times, Sunday Times
Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him. Droll Stories — Volume 1
Glew believes the memoirs imply Quasimodo is based on a real-life figure as they reference a carver named Trajan, who was employed by an unnamed scuptlor whose French nickname was le bossu, or "hunchback. Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist
Yeah, East Lothian is more of an unreluctant hunch there. Superpoll => Superpredictor
That night, on a hunch, he returns with a flashlight, and, proving once again why he was made head gardener, manages to startle a gorging gray horde of sweet-toothed woodmice.
Iggy himself is tastefully arrayed in leather jacket, miniskirt, garters, nylons and heels; dipping and thrusting, hunching and high-kicking, he seems to be in peak condition.
-- E.] [Footnote 77: In modern language the term dromedary is very improperly applied to the Bactrian, or two-hunched camel, a slow beast of burden. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
This was so from the very beginning, for the supposed peculiarities of his birth and the hunchback, for which he is renowned, were but inventions to signify evil.
He hunched his shoulders, first one side, then the other.
Older, wealthier folk tend to be happy to buy hi-fi kit and would generally rather listen to music from the comfort of the armchair than hunched up in front of a PC.
He is, at this moment, hunched over his unstolen cellphone in tears, begging, pleading, mumbling imprecations for me to call him and relieve his torment.
There are grunts and solemn nods of approval, shaken heads and hunched shoulders. Times, Sunday Times
Today, in the summer twilight at Bird Cloud, the greasewood and rabbitbrush hunch themselves into giant marmots, crippled elk. Bird Cloud
When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day.
A young girl of about 15 was hunched over as her shoulder shook with silent tears.
In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.
Was that shadowy figure hunched over a cigarette Him? Times, Sunday Times
This figure's weak chin, hunched shoulders and humble demeanor contribute to the poignancy and humanity of the busts.
In the rain, through the mist, the hunched shadow yelled out, “Am I still fuckable?” Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan
A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
Don't bring the leg in so far it bends or hunch your shoulders; this stresses the hamstrings and the spine and neck.
Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.
The doctors investigated their hunch by having 142 randomly selected patients fill out a questionnaire after they re-covered from their anesthesia.
The people are dark skinned, their faces pinched, their bodies hunched as though perpetually cold.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I had a sudden hunch. Times, Sunday Times
When they got to the poop deck, Cal noticed Rose wrapped in a blanket, hunched over, crying.
He faltered slightly at her words, hunching his shoulders as he wiped the tears from his face.
By the time my second one came, Max had lit another cigarette and was hunched over his cup in typical barfly fashion. BREACH OF DUTY
Perhaps more damaging, mechanizing the drug discovery process may not have left enough room for hunches and serendipity.
It is a sound that causes my shoulders to hunch and my heart to sink. Times, Sunday Times
I also have a hunch that the series is going to 'borrow' 'Your Highness' sets and props to film the pilot for less money, but may custom-build its own sets and props for the series itself, which would likely necessitate completely reshooting the pilot on the new sets. Pilot set to begin production soon
A man hunched over with pain and troubled by a lengthy list of illnesses and ailments.
The mice sat in a row, hunched forward, looking miserable. Times, Sunday Times
Visitors can sit and pray in a makeshift chapel that features a life-sized statue of Mother Teresa sitting in the ground in a corner, hunched over in prayer.
Plush but tidy brown hush puppies softened the girl's tread, and she walked with a slight shuffle, back hunched a bit, as if she were trying to hide from the world.
He leaned over her, half-dressed, his back hurting from being so long hunched in the same position. DANSVILLE
Maram cried out, hunched behind his stone merlon next to me. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
ONE thing about being a private investigator, you've got to learn to go with your hunches.
The landlady stood in the courtyard, hunched over her largest sinsemilla plant. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
It turns out Risaku's mere hunch became reality and an assassin stood there, loitering in the doorway.
A row of tiny feeding fish hug the rock surface like hunched-over telephonists.
I immediately hunched over the old manual pencil sharpener and furiously cranked that handle.
Her hunched shoulders are painful to watch. Times, Sunday Times
His cold, dark grey eyes scythed across the bare antechamber, coming to rest upon a small, wrinkled old hunchbacked man who had come through the door at the opposite side if the room.
Mr. Lundgaard spent evenings hunched over his espresso machine, studying exemplars on YouTube and rehearsing his "wiggle," the back and forth motion of the hand pouring milk. Foam Sweet Foam: 'Latte Art'
And later they confirmed my hunch about their quality by performing one of my favorite sets of the weekend, bless them!
When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said: Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
He had to stoop, shoulders hunched, to prevent his head from coming into contact with the canvas awning. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
She could see her husband hunching to release himself from the shelter of the tonga, too tall for its low bonnet. An Atlas of Impossible Longing
His shoulders were hunched over and his eyes tried to stay open.
Police, waiting there on a hunch, arrested Simpson, while the other two escaped.
He hunched forward, face flying low. Times, Sunday Times
We should trust our hunches no more than we trust two-faced spokesmen and spokeswomen. Times, Sunday Times
The phrase used as a curse against the hunchback is often used as a modern blessing for the artist, or as an expression of the highest aspiration for the writer or creative person. Ccfinlay: Blogito Ergo Sum
Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Quasimodo was a wise and kindhearted guy, but he had an ugly face and a hunchback.
The hunched, uncertain figure I knew from domestic politics had gone. Times, Sunday Times
The longest string of hunches is only so long, an 'your string's finished. SHORTY DREAMS
His body was hunched over painfully, creating a hump at the back of his neck.
Five of my football buddies and I stood hunched over flexing our biceps.
But an irrational hunch, a feeling that you learn to trust as a biographer, compelled me to schedule an appointment for the next day. Times, Sunday Times
She had spent weeks hunched over a microscope looking at samples of sperm.
What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality.
I had a hunch that something like this would happen.
Coalition cuts being made on basis of 'hunches', says Tory-linked thinktank | Politics | The Guardian Coalition cuts being made on basis of 'hunches', says Tory-linked thinktank
Hunched on the sofa, legs crossed, her chin propped on prayerfully folded hands, she sits and dozes for hours. By the Handful
With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
Mr. Danielson hunched his eyebrows down towards the bridge of his nose as he thought.
His shoulders are hunched, eyes watchful. Times, Sunday Times
Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.
On a hunch, the researchers radioed the ground-based team and urged them to continue gathering data when the star re-emerged from behind Uranus.
His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked. Of Gods And Monsters
In the US, even non-pros often know and play to a strict basic strategy: playing hunches is the mark of a greenhorn.
But I have a hunch that, judging from his posts, WWJRD has no inkling of the differenced between mulk land, miri land and the other varieties, and why that makes all the difference when it comes to quieting titles in that part of the world, even under Arablaw. The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Editorializing in the New York Times:
Sensitive, fearful, and morose, he would not go to Europe to be known as the hunchback husband of Lajeunesse, the great singer. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
Intense drivers, their eyes affixed on the taillights in front of them, sat hunched forward gripping their steering wheels tightly.
This is a bold and dynamic role Kaufman has written for himself: the hero as chump, and chump as hero, hunched miserably over his typewriter.
Beneath a lantern on the forecastle deck I saw a few wretched sailors hunched in apelike postures pounding oakum between the decking planks. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
He was 46 this summer, the seasons of rugby written in the slightly hunched back and the stiff walk of the old warrior. Times, Sunday Times
He too was tall but poked his head forward between hunched shoulders like a heron at rest. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway.
The handcuffs forced him to sit hunched forward. Times, Sunday Times
They now have a database of information to back their hunches about customers' preferences.
Tension disappears, as do strained necks, hunched shoulders, and unnecessary work.
At the aerie, under a rock ledge high above, two big gray chicks were still hunched on the nest.
We cannot allow our young people to become malnourished, squandering their childhood and vitality hunched over computer consoles and gorging on junk food. Times, Sunday Times
Stephen hunched down to light a cigarette.
The hunchback gene is switched on only when bicoid protein, a transcription factor, is present at a certain threshold concentration.
Susan Polgar was perfumed, coiffed, made-up and dressed in a sleek black pantsuit, an elegant contrast to the boys and young men hunched over their boards in her Queens, New York, chess club.
Their shoulders were hunched against a light spring shower which gleamed on the bonnet of the Rolls. THE LAST RAVEN
Across the street, half a dozen teenage boys hunch over a broken bicycle.
Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences.
Close behind My Best Friend’s Girl was Igor, an animated movie out of MGM starring the voices of John Cusack as the title hunchback, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese , and Jennifer Coolidge. Box Office Buzz: ‘Lakeview’ Terrace Earns Top Slot
It was covered in stiff, wiry gray hair, with a shag of sorts hanging off its hunched shoulders and thick neck like a mane.
In Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the character of Esmeralda is tortured using the boot.
The tall, thin man was the innkeeper -- evidently a timorous fellow; the hunchback was his 'man' -- malevolent probably, the doer of the other's dark behests; whilst the woman was presumably his wife, the cook and housekeeper of the ale-house. Border Ghost Stories
As we walked past countless buildings reduced to rubble we saw hundreds of people hunched under blankets in the freezing rain. The Sun
Based on a hunch, the lawyer asked if the widow had been born a woman.
Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed. Chapter X
He paused, and the hunchback repeated his last word interrogatively: The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
He hunched forward, wrenching his arms higher and higher up his back until his shoulders felt as if they were about to dislocate, until at last he was holding the little round knurl of the bolt between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. Fear Itself
His hunch was right - but led to horrific results when the beast managed to creep up on him. The Sun
He could use the scientific method to determine whether his hunch was correct, and whether it might really help his business. Times, Sunday Times
Check out those clenched fists or hunched shoulders. The Sun
Malcolm struck his usual pose: hands in pockets, shoulders hunched.
In fact, Yacob was pretty certain there was a bit of extra padding there, accounting for the slightly lopsided look the woman seemed to have - a little bit like a hunchback.
He saw what had happened -- he saw that hunched-upheap inside. After Death -- What
Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings. UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
The beast stood on two legs, but walked hunched over, with its front claws just inches off the ground.
However, that's just a hunch based on the fact that the reported sayings of ETs seem so often to be, well, new age twaddle while their doings seem, so often, to be creepy, meaningless, and malevolent.
The officer found the woman laying on the ground, and the man, later identified as Alvarado, hunched over her with his hands near the upper part of her body, police said. The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
Out on the stoop a bunch of men were sitting hunched over their six packs and a dog was incessantly barking.
It's one of those stuffy phrases coined by the bureaucrats upstairs, hunched at their desks with a drip on their nose and frayed cuffs and patched elbows, their chilblained feet squeezed into their cracked patent-leather shoes and a mug of cold tea beside them as they scratch the epitaph across the file in longhand, like vultures picking at the bones of a dead mission. Northlight
Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings. UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
I have a hunch we're heading for another economic spasm. Times, Sunday Times
The wind sweeps through and the hunched wolf shivers.
Outside, the paint had a nice mirror finish and the car looked confident, with a low, hunched stance and sharp creases but, again, a bit blokey.
Although there was nothing to indicate at which junction I and co-driver Simon should exit, the hunch of going for the city centre looked good.
Horton refused to speculate, and so his dancers were forced to follow their own hunches in interpreting the characters.
Sometimes selection has to have an element of hunch based on potential. Times, Sunday Times
Later that night, Anna sat hunched over her laptop computer keyboard.
But, sometimes, you get a hunch and you make an exception. Times, Sunday Times
The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores. Descent Into Cleveland
While it's true that people can be lucky and do win on hunches, too many passive players consistently let impulse rule their responses.
She wants him to pilot the journey, hunched forward in the motorcar. Neuschwanstein
Instead, decisions were made based on facts rather than hunches and resources were pooled for the common good.
She started walking when another jab of pain made her hunch forward on her knees.
Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudge hunched on his bait-box for hours at a time.
Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket, fists clenched inside the pockets, eyes little worry beads of suspicion.
The real revelation about the movie, however, is that no matter how good a job Ralph Fiennes does at playing a creepy old madman - which he does quite well, transforming his entire body into a fearful half-hunch as he murmurs in glottal half-phrases – he is still too goddamn good-looking for some parts. Brief Reviews Of Recent Movies I Have Seen
As Adam stood, he too leaned on the redwood crosspiece, his bottle dangling in his hands as his shoulders hunched forward.
Again, although there are few precincts reporting this, I have a hunch.
He represents two human figures of his own textual invention and creation whose particular forms make up the variables of his experiments: the body of a blind woman and that of a hunchback man.
We drove with the windows open, Bagado hunched in his raincoat. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
We all have intuition - a gut feeling, a hunch or sometimes business instinct. Times, Sunday Times
Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed catch finished stamped crypts, chanceful catacombs, forsaken cathedrals, and modify to the hunch of the most secretive jump on earth, Langdon and Vetra module study a 400-year-old dawdle of ancient symbols that evaluation the Vatican's exclusive wish for survival. Www.awesomeblogs.com
Most medical research is empirical based on evidence rather than hunches or preferences.
Then, hunching his shoulders against the pounding rain, he lurched towards the barn.
He hunched his shoulders, like a protester about to be truncheoned by Chicago's finest. Brannon's Choice
His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
I have bad posture, thanks to sitting on a beanbag hunched over a laptop working for months.
He stood at the boardroom table casually, shoulders slightly hunched as usual.
Hunched to the wall, white-faced, in his frail voice he spoke the verses confidently. COUP D'ETAT
The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing, dozing lightly.
The tops of their heads had the same randomly curling hair; even the way they hunched their shoulders was similar.
Sullen youths smoking clove cigarettes, wizened old ladies hunched over baskets of shallots, krupuk sellers, batik-clad matrons shopping for fish, the occasional leathery homeless man brandishing a tin begging cup. Laura Silverman: Nose-to-Tail Eating in Indonesia
I was nervous about my first massage, but my masseur, Tony, managed to ease away the aches and pains of a working life spent hunched over a keyboard.
I hunched that Rolls - Royce company would crack up.
And there she was sitting hunched over in the chair right next to the door.
Most unsettling of all is a portrait by a colleague in which Muybridge hunches, scowling with paranoia, at the base of a patriarchal sequoia, apparently ready to wriggle into a cavity between its roots. Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
A pencil drawing from 1982 presents four hunchbacks and freaks aboard a humpless camel standing on a platform mounted on a wheelcart.

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