hunker

How To Use hunker In A Sentence

• Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
• Consumers remain hunkered down, and the Federal Reserve is nearly tapped out in providing monetary stimulus, so it can't replicate the sharp cuts in interest rates that gave the economy a big lift in the 1980s. Lessons of Reagan's Rebound
• They have been hunkering down and they've reached a decision.
• Instead, credit-card companies hunker down in well-traveled paths just off campus; 73% of students surveyed by Prof. Cards Return to School
• I then hunkered down and got real serious, knowing I was going to have to fly the best instrument approach of my life.
• She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’
• For the next thing that was heard of her, and that by a mere chance, was that she was marred to Mynheer van Hunker, 'a rascallion of an old half-bred Dutchman, 'as my hot-tongued sister called him, who had come over to fatten on our misfortunes by buying up the cavaliers' plate and jewels, and lending them money on their estates. Stray Pearls
• She set it on the carpet and the cat walked casually over, then settled on its hunkers and began to lap delicately. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
• Betty hunkered down on the floor.
• He started in on the chorus again, crouching low on his hunkers at the side of the stage, looking down on the crowd.