[
US
/ˈhəntʃt/
]
[ UK /hˈʌntʃt/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌntʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman
How To Use hunched 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
- 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.
- My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.