How To Use Hunched In A Sentence
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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
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But he is still notably dishier than anyone who spends all day hunched at a desk could hope for.
Times, Sunday Times
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She hunched over the desk(Sentence dictionary), telephone cradled at her neck.
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They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language.
WATCHING: District 9
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I am hunched against the biting wind, and all my possessions are next to me in a battered suitcase.
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My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
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Upon one of the boughs, high off the ground, almost indiscernible from the night around it, a hunched form sat motionless, as if waiting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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He hunched his shoulders to force his body away from the trembles.
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Tim wound steadfastly, back hunched over the reel, unaccustomed to the strange combination of muscles and effort.
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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,
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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.
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Elham leaned forward with his shoulders slightly hunched, an attitude he often adopted in court.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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The thick-bodied, heavy-sinewed Gialaurys sat hunched on a backless bench to Prestimion ' s left.
LORD PRESTIMION
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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.
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Standing beside him was a shrimpy photographer hunched in a suede car coat.
PROSPECT HILL
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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.
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Unable to stand it, he hunched over completely, forehead touching the surface of the altar as he fought to control his cries of anguish.
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His lithe body was hunched over the bike, eyes sparkling, face determined.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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He hunched his legs up to his body and hugged them tightly to his chest as the night wind tore across him.
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We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
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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
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-- 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
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He hunched his shoulders, first one side, then the other.
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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.
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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.
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There are grunts and solemn nods of approval, shaken heads and hunched shoulders.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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A young girl of about 15 was hunched over as her shoulder shook with silent tears.
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In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.
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Was that shadowy figure hunched over a cigarette Him?
Times, Sunday Times
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This figure's weak chin, hunched shoulders and humble demeanor contribute to the poignancy and humanity of the busts.
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In the rain, through the mist, the hunched shadow yelled out, “Am I still fuckable?”
Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan
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A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
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The people are dark skinned, their faces pinched, their bodies hunched as though perpetually cold.
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When they got to the poop deck, Cal noticed Rose wrapped in a blanket, hunched over, crying.
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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
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A man hunched over with pain and troubled by a lengthy list of illnesses and ailments.
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The mice sat in a row, hunched forward, looking miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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He leaned over her, half-dressed, his back hurting from being so long hunched in the same position.
DANSVILLE
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Maram cried out, hunched behind his stone merlon next to me.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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The landlady stood in the courtyard, hunched over her largest sinsemilla plant.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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A row of tiny feeding fish hug the rock surface like hunched-over telephonists.
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I immediately hunched over the old manual pencil sharpener and furiously cranked that handle.
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Her hunched shoulders are painful to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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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'
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He had to stoop, shoulders hunched, to prevent his head from coming into contact with the canvas awning.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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His shoulders were hunched over and his eyes tried to stay open.
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He hunched forward, face flying low.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The hunched, uncertain figure I knew from domestic politics had gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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His body was hunched over painfully, creating a hump at the back of his neck.
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Five of my football buddies and I stood hunched over flexing our biceps.
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She had spent weeks hunched over a microscope looking at samples of sperm.
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Hunched on the sofa, legs crossed, her chin propped on prayerfully folded hands, she sits and dozes for hours.
By the Handful
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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.
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Mr. Danielson hunched his eyebrows down towards the bridge of his nose as he thought.
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His shoulders are hunched, eyes watchful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.
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Intense drivers, their eyes affixed on the taillights in front of them, sat hunched forward gripping their steering wheels tightly.
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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.
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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
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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
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He too was tall but poked his head forward between hunched shoulders like a heron at rest.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway.
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The handcuffs forced him to sit hunched forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tension disappears, as do strained necks, hunched shoulders, and unnecessary work.
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At the aerie, under a rock ledge high above, two big gray chicks were still hunched on the nest.
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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
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Stephen hunched down to light a cigarette.
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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.
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Their shoulders were hunched against a light spring shower which gleamed on the bonnet of the Rolls.
THE LAST RAVEN
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It was covered in stiff, wiry gray hair, with a shag of sorts hanging off its hunched shoulders and thick neck like a mane.
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As we walked past countless buildings reduced to rubble we saw hundreds of people hunched under blankets in the freezing rain.
The Sun
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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
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Check out those clenched fists or hunched shoulders.
The Sun
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Malcolm struck his usual pose: hands in pockets, shoulders hunched.
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He saw what had happened -- he saw that hunched-upheap inside.
After Death -- What
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The beast stood on two legs, but walked hunched over, with its front claws just inches off the ground.
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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.
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Out on the stoop a bunch of men were sitting hunched over their six packs and a dog was incessantly barking.
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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
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The wind sweeps through and the hunched wolf shivers.
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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.
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Later that night, Anna sat hunched over her laptop computer keyboard.
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She wants him to pilot the journey, hunched forward in the motorcar.
Neuschwanstein
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Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudge hunched on his bait-box for hours at a time.
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Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket, fists clenched inside the pockets, eyes little worry beads of suspicion.
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As Adam stood, he too leaned on the redwood crosspiece, his bottle dangling in his hands as his shoulders hunched forward.
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We drove with the windows open, Bagado hunched in his raincoat.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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He hunched his shoulders, like a protester about to be truncheoned by Chicago's finest.
Brannon's Choice
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His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
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I have bad posture, thanks to sitting on a beanbag hunched over a laptop working for months.
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He stood at the boardroom table casually, shoulders slightly hunched as usual.
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Hunched to the wall, white-faced, in his frail voice he spoke the verses confidently.
COUP D'ETAT
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The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing, dozing lightly.
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The tops of their heads had the same randomly curling hair; even the way they hunched their shoulders was similar.
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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
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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.
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I hunched that Rolls - Royce company would crack up.
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And there she was sitting hunched over in the chair right next to the door.
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In '04, I offered to help a very elderly, kind of hunched-over woman in Issaquah who was having trouble finding the strength to raise her car's trunk to get something out of it.
Sound Politics: A Seattle story
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He hunched over his computer screen and kept typing in commands.
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Someone hunched me into the room.
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His shoulders are hunched, eyes watchful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hunched forward, face flying low.
Times, Sunday Times
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She coughed as if she were tubercular, then paused, leaning over the table in apparent pain, still hunched over.
FALLOUT
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Being annoyed too at her insistence that they walk outside on a rather chilly morning, he hunched his shoulders and looked glum.
Somewhere East of Life
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My voice was muffled and with the hair that undoubtedly surrounded my whole hunched over form, I most likely resembled a distant relative of cousin It.
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He got out his map of Yorkshire and hunched over it to read the small print.
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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
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Stan hunched down next to Phillip as he squeezed himself into the tunnel at a relatively awkward and entirely uncomfortable angle as his tail lit the way for the party.
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As the ettin struck ground, its hunched back revealed a slender sylvari in black leather.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Tiredness ached in her bones, she sagged and rocked, hunched in her blanket with the buffalo robe around her feet.
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Computer programmers and secretaries are particularly susceptible as they often have to work in an uncomfortable chair, hunched over a keyboard for hours on end.
Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
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The handcuffs forced him to sit hunched forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hat was well down upon his bobwig, and he hunched his shoulders against the wind, making a picture of melancholy discomfort.
The Highwayman
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Wes hunched his shoulders and leaned forward on the edge of the counter.
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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.
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The actual gargoyle itself was much shorter; it was hunched forward, claws raised in front of its shoulders and haunches tucked up underneath.
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Wes hunched his shoulders and leaned forward on the edge of the counter.
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There are grunts and solemn nods of approval, shaken heads and hunched shoulders.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sliver of light sliced into the room, broadening across the floor, and a hunched figure was silhouetted there.
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Apparently, it had been there for two months, hunched over a branch like a hairy hermit in solitary contemplation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hunched up my body and put the towel over my self in protection.
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It's longer and wider than its predecessor, but it sits lower for a more hunched, aggressive stance.
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As I raced back to the threadbare offices, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping.
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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
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Here's a strange thing: hacking open source isn't done only at midnight, in the spare room, hunched over the protocol analyser, the breadboard, source code control and some helpless device.
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He had a hunched nervous appearance and the distress showed clearly in his voice as he told her what had happened after he'd left her the previous day.
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Hunched and doddery, a miracle of will over disability, the Pope began his Christmas greetings - in sixty languages.
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But the figure was hunched, and wizened, and coming with slow, shuffling steps.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Some of the usual causes of stress and strain on the spine include slouching in chairs, driving in hunched positions, lifting heavy objects incorrectly, sleeping on sagging mattresses and being unfit or overweight.
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A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
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We all unhunched our shoulders and felt better, and looked about the pleasant new neighborhood, the day was sunny and lovely as the cherry trees along the parkways were in blossom.
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The Belgian is a long, thin and snaky bird, which is bred and trained to stand hunched over in its perched position.
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Apparently, it had been there for two months, hunched over a branch like a hairy hermit in solitary contemplation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm hunched over a lonely laptop, drowning my sorrows in soymilk and anime DVDs, wishing I were in San Francisco right now -- watching mindbogglingly awesome robots strut their stuff at the Robolympics.
Boing Boing: March 14, 2004 - March 20, 2004 Archives
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Then a couple of white guys, hunched over, scoping out the street, looking to score.
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His lithe body was hunched over the bike, eyes sparkling, face determined.
Times, Sunday Times
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She would lean over shoulders in supermarkets, bend over wrinkled, hunched backs and peer underneath registers to look at traces of sentences being scribbled in cursive.
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Was that shadowy figure hunched over a cigarette Him?
Times, Sunday Times
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The vehicle rattled over a bridge, and Brian caught a glimpse of dark trees hunched protectively over black water.
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Whenever a piece of mail had the slightest crease the mother held it to the light, convinced it had been opened, read, resealed by an entire team of government gnomes hunched over an expansive dark wood conference table.
Still Life, With Girl
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Her hunched shoulders are painful to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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His superb muscles tensed, great shoulders hunched, haunches low.
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A hunched, pale-faced character was leaning against the counter.
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In the extreme cold of the Arctic winter, hares dig dens in hardened drifts, and, while resting, they sit on their well-furred hind feet hunched into a heat-conserving ball.
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As I looked in I had a clear image of a hollow, decrepid man hunched over staring directly at me.
Alexis Adams: Roots
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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.
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Shoulders hunched, it gave a dead-eyed stare over the line of scrimmage which was the chain across the opening of the port gates.
A DARKENING STAIN
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I went into this most insalubrious place with little gnome-like people hunched over indescribable pictures, and I asked the man for this Tokyo Rose.
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He came in hunched low, about four feet behind an ingratiating smile.
A DARKENING STAIN
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He got out his map of Yorkshire and hunched over it to read the small print.
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His body was wrinkled and withered, slightly bent over and hunched.
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He sat hunched over his breakfast.
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Check out those clenched fists or hunched shoulders.
The Sun
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Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket, fists clenched inside the pockets, eyes little worry beads of suspicion.
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The young soldier, who has cropped dark brown hair and a square jaw, sat slightly hunched in the dock, according to a military courtroom drawing.
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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
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She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
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At times both of us were hunched over our plates, sawing away at the meat in front of us.
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Houses hunched like weary giants, wrapped in subfusc cloaks of night.
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She was glad not to be able to see much of the place, foul with seeping water and fungus, a chamber of old horrors where prisoners hunched under the vaults of cold stone like monstrous white insects, wingless and half-blind.
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Pat took off her jacket and hunched forward.
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This knife-wielding psychopath isn't jaunty, but hunched and frowzy.
A suffocatingly dark 'Knight'
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It was the director, hunched forward in his chair before a wall of monitors covering every conceivable angle on the field.
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Fans are used to Young's laid-back stage presence, the hunched shoulders, eyes often masked by cap or hat, the trademark shamble and lurch.
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The author cuts a shilpit figure, hunched over his lager and fags.
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He had at once recognized Hare-lip, although he was not wearing the waterproof in which he used to wrap himself, with freezingly hunched shoulders, during his walks in the yard.
Autumn
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I thought I was hiding them well: I hunched, crossed my arms, wore eighty scarves, that is until one day when Henry, who ironically enough is the son of a very famous pornographic magazine editor, approached me in the hallway and announced: "Damn, you have huge tits!
Danielle Sinay: Double-D Listed
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I hunched my shoulders and stared at the gravestones solemnly.
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His once broad shoulders were hunched forward as a result of his age.
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The canisters ticked a few seconds before geysering upwards, thick jets of liquid spattering off the ceiling, foaming and filling the space, securing his hunched form in a bubble of packing foam.
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There were a few parishioners hunched in contemplation near the jerry-built box of boards and blankets in which he heard confessions.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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Computer programmers and secretaries are particularly susceptible as they often have to work in an uncomfortable chair, hunched over a keyboard for hours on end.
Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
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Actually Michael Winner, hunched over the keyboard, typing incessantly about my bristols?
Got to get this off my chest | Victoria Coren
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Shoulders hunched, it gave a dead-eyed stare over the line of scrimmage which was the chain across the opening of the port gates.
A DARKENING STAIN
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She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
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Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey.
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About his shoulders was flung a scarlet blanket, consisting of the identical broadcloth from which the British army tunics are made; this he "hunched" with his shoulders from time to time in true Indian fashion.
Legends of Vancouver
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‘You can have as many nice little touches as you want, but if the song's a bit of a stinker it's not really much use,’ says the jovial bass player, hunched up on a chair in the Glasgow offices of Chemikal Underground.
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They are already able to make Euphoria-based characters mimic a range of emotions, but the aim is to seed data from real people, to actually train the engine to procedurally generate emotional actions and reactions such as hunched shoulders for sadness, or a puffed out chest for aggression.
Sports sims: how they became the real deal
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Then his smile became a sheepish grin and his shoulders hunched in a giggle.
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His lithe body was hunched over the bike, eyes sparkling, face determined.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smile, appeased and amused, when I realize that he's actually ducking, and his broad shoulders are hunched over.
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Squatting above the slow current, I counted three species of heron hunched on the mudflat of the far bank.
Kook
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Suddenly a large hunched over figure emerged from the space craft, a single black spot blocking out the glaring light that the vessel reflected.
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He too was warmly received, except by a lonely figure on the backmost backbench, his brother, David, who sat hunched, hands clasped across his chest, without expression.
Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch
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** I don't claim that the illustration is a perfect likeness (it's remarkably hard to draw someone from memory more than a decade after the fact), but I do hope it catches something of his hunched pathetitude.
Mr. B.J.
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He sat hunched forward on the chair, fully focused on the book which lay open on his lap.
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The grizzled leader hunched like a porcupine and peered through a screen of yaupon leaves, the crossbow held low before him.
Fire The Sky
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Stuart moved towards my hunched body, but I scrabbled backwards away from him.
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Two other fellows, the wandering sort if one judged by their attire, sat hunched over their table in the corner.
