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hold stubbornly to a position
The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down -
take shelter
During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut -
sit on one's heels
The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
How To Use hunker down In A Sentence
- They would have been able to hunker down, graft, get a mortgage for a two-bedroom terraced house, all the constitutive elements of what used to pass for the Asian good life.
- Going to university or college, whether you commute and live with your parents or hunker down in student digs, changes the amount of time and money and energy you have, and it changes you as a person.
- Their strategy for the moment is to hunker down and let the fuss die down.
- The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
- Pearlman says that a soft market is no excuse to hunker down and wait it out.
- We still need men to hunker down inside the killing machines, still dream of the day robots will do our bidding so we never need to bloody our hands.
- It would be apathetic to just kind of hunker down and go with the flow. CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2009
- The view is worth every tortured moment of discomfort it takes to hunker down, scrunch up, and peer out.
- They'd stay firmly on their little perch, hunker down, and passingly wonder what on earth their children would think of them if they suddenly went off flying about.
- 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
