How To Use Hunker In A Sentence
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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
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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
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They have been hunkering down and they've reached a decision.
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Instead, credit-card companies hunker down in well-traveled paths just off campus; 73% of students surveyed by Prof.
Cards Return to School
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I then hunkered down and got real serious, knowing I was going to have to fly the best instrument approach of my life.
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She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’
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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
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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
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Betty hunkered down on the floor.
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He started in on the chorus again, crouching low on his hunkers at the side of the stage, looking down on the crowd.
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It would be apathetic to kind of hunker down and go with the flow.
CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010
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You didn't use the word hunker and I'm very proud of you.
CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005
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Over on the Upper West Side, Rachel Nuttall is "hunkered down with PG Tips and hobnobs" with "clouds ominously circling The Time Warner towers".
Hurricane Irene heads for New York – live updates
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The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down
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The open sea blows huge out there, white circles curling on the crest of waves like eyes that notice momentarily our piece of shore-a rocking catboat, mangroves, an egret hunkered on a post.
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So right now, everyone is kind of hunkered down, waiting to see what the storm is going to do here, where the wind is really picking up and the rain is starting.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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He hunkered down beside her just as a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed to the ground only inches away.
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In building the ranch in Eldorado, FLDS leaders planned to hunker down and escape notice.
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If you are ready to hunker down and get serious, this one's not worth it.
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The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
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I hunkered lower down in my seat and tried to pretend that I couldn't speak English.
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When Topalov opened with White in the 12th game, it surprised no one that Anand hunkered down with what's called Lasker's Defense in the Queen's Gambit Declined, signalling his willingness to accept a draw and go into his preferred blitz shoot-out.
The Times of India
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Some people won't want to wait for the pieces to fall in place, but it's worth hunkering down for the pay-off.
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In a cartop carrier on top of the cab, two children in bulky raincoats hunkered down against the wind.
Lucifer's Hammer
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In case anyone starts to think they are camping in the park instead of hunkering down in a war zone, the camp's perimeter is ringed by razor wire and sandbagged foxholes manned by armed guards.
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But many more in the city of nine million people hunker down, lining up for rationed water and storing it in pails and tubs as the city's water supply was cut off.
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We hunkered down round the campfire, toasting marshmallows.
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He likes nothing better than locking arms, hooking thumbs and hunkering down for a quick grapple on a table.
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The press have hunkered down for the night outside the palace, waiting for news of the royal birth.
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hunker down at home and watch DVDs" had proven false, and that as long as ticket sales remained strong and funding held out, Southbank would provide what he called programing of
Reuters: Top News
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Stand up, speak out - don't hunker down and wait for those bruisers in the cargo shorts to come looking for your son.
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He squatted down on his hunkers, narrowing his eyes and staring out over the water.
DESPERADOES
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I was joined on my hunkers by a number of other diners, but we resisted the temptation to start a Russian folk dance as we strained to view what was on offer.
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How many times did the soon ex-gov. of alaska say "hunker" in her resignation/moving forward speech? too many thats for sure. a person of power (or those wishing to be) should stick to words that are actually IN the dictionary.
Eight months after Election Day, Franken reaches Capitol Hill
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A team that was revelling in overachievement two months ago is now hunkering down into a familiar sense of restlessness.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Leader” Muammar Gadaffi is hunkered down in Tripoli, defended by army units from his tribe and mercenaries from black Africa.
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The precious dialogue is sometimes muffled, so that I had to back up a few times and hunker down for serious lip reading.
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The next thing Charlie knew, his erstwhile guide, red bathrobe and all, was hunkered down, eyes squinched closed, feeling about frantically on the floor.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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I hunkered down, ignoring the funny looks from passers-by.
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Flash forward three years, and she is hunkering down over coffee to talk about her life and the theatre, once again.
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He straightened and then hunkered over again and again, as if shocks of pain were shooting up his spine.
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He was sitting on his knees, kind of hunkered over.
CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008
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The image once of the lone engineer hunkered down working on a solution to a problem no longer applies.
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So clearly they are kind of hunkered down, waiting out for this.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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LOL - after writing and posting the first comment, I had this incredibly vivid image of a mad scientist writer woman, wild haired, hunkered down with laptop in garret by moonlight, readying for the evening's writing, hooking up an IV to the arm of the Universe itself.
Branded
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Kuwait taught us to hunker down; the Falklands had us yomping; Vietnam gave us the search-and-destroy mission.
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One cold day, I hunkered over some on a park bench.
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And I'm hunkering down on a book proposal about funky crafts to wow my favorite book publisher - Chronicle Books.
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With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music.
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During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut
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Another party, possessing the equally euphonical name of "Old Hunkers," are thus described: -- "Standing midway between this wing of the Democracy and the Whig party, is that portion who have taken upon themselves the comfortable title of 'Old Hunkers. '
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Fergus walked on his heels, still hunkered down, across the room, eyes and gun pointed towards the plasterboard ceiling.
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Before me natant birds hunker against the teeth of a northerly breeze.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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Once the horses were tended and tethered, Meer hunkered down beside the leather packs, which they'd piled up in the driest spot.
A TIME OF WAR
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The scattered farmhouses hunker into the hillsides, as if sheltering from the constant 'wuthering' of the wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
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We hunkered down for another night in the spare room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Betty hunkered down on the floor.
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Wolf hunkered down beneath a pepperidge tree, stared sightlessly at the grey water.
Black Blade
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Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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We hunkered down for another night in the spare room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conservatives, "hankering" after the offices, accepted unconditionally the annexation of Texas, they were called Hunkers.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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The publicity man hunkers down on the grass to steady her round the ankles while she grips her 253-year-old violin.
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Thank you very much for being with us, giving us a sense of what those caves are like and also an insight, Paula, into what the people are like inside - giving kind of new meaning to the term hunkered down Paula.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2001
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I am hunkering down for the next three weeks as I need to make my deadline.
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The press have hunkered down for the night outside the palace, waiting for news of the royal birth.
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After spreading destruction all over Russia, Hitler's hordes reached Stalingrad, where they believed they were on the threshold of final victory and hunkered down for the winter.
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She hunkers down and keeps going, tough and diligent.
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Got his bedding ready and hunkered down to sleep.
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Hunkered down in his cab, the man reportedly gobbled up the paper discs of his truck's tachograph, which records speed and the time driven.
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The entire country, it seems, is in hunker-down mode.
Less Money, More Fishing
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The stench of sulfur filled the air as I dragged myself across the scree and hunkered behind a dark boulder.
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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.
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A terribly nice and passionate man called Richard Jenkins from the Environment Agency is, as we sit hunkered comfily like a couple of slack-jawed yokels sucking long grass fronds on the banks of the River Wear, telling me some astonishingly interesting things.
From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead
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It hunkered on top of the tor like a fat toad, everything about it heavy and overbearing.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Consumers and businesses alike have hunkered down.
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If I see the sons and daughters of my friends grown old, I also see the grandchildren spinning the peerie and hunkering at
A Window in Thrums
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Slavko Czernyk hunkers down tonight in this old clawfoot bathtub because his tightass landlord still hasn't turned on the heat and this is the only way to get warm.
Archive 2007-04-01
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She hunkered down for a stone and skimmed it along the water.
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We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain.
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But there are also a lot of people that kind of hunkered down.
CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008
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If anxieties about flood and famine make you want to stake out a piece of land up Bella Coola way and hunker down with your ...
Ryan Mickle: Age of Stupid: Environmentalism is Alive and Well
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She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers.
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Feeling at once enervated and threatened, the enterprise collectively hunkers into a defensive, self-protective posture.
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They only dried up when the women, quite forcefully, had Mary sit down on her hunkers in water that was already there and so couldn't have been much warmer than the stream outside.
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Wasn't this the century that included millions of conscripts hunkered down in trenches, and millions more innocent civilians herded into gulags and concentration camps?
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It hunkered on top of the tor like a fat toad, everything about it heavy and overbearing.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Hunkered down in my studies, I'd hear the trailer suddenly begin to crackle like a beer can crushed in a fist.
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She stopped in surprise, as she stared at Alex, hunkered over in the corner.
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And as someone who has been through hurricanes both as a reporter and also just kind of hunkered down inside homes, it can be very disconcerting when you're inside and all of a sudden, you know, it seems like nothing is really happening.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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There are worse places to hunker down in a hoolie, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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We hunkered down round the campfire, toasting marshmallows.
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Betty hunkered down on the floor.
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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.
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Rebekah got down on her hunkers beside one of the lemurs and she patted him.
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Here are the clues we have to work with: Over the Veteran's Day weekend, GOP negotiators from the House and Senate hunkered down to finalize the details of the elephantine security bill.
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I stay hunkered behind the teacher's desk, next to an open window.
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They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats.
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I hunkered in the basement, next to a row of what appeared to be giant mandarin chamber pots.
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Back, kind of hunkered over and he hit right beside him or right behind him.
CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008
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At Gold Bluffs Beach campground, 25 campsites hunker in the dunes, with a tent-flap view of powerful waves.
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I heard the word "hunker" = squat on your haunches (I think Richard Boone used that in a movie somewhere).
Fads of the Fifties
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Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter.
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So most people are just kind of hunkered down waiting for this thing to move past them.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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He hunkered down in a patch of magnolias like a tomcat preparing to pounce.
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When small clumps of snow began to fall on him, he knew what was coming and began digging a hole, where he hunkered as the slide hit.
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The view is worth every tortured moment of discomfort it takes to hunker down, scrunch up, and peer out.
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As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs.
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It would be apathetic to just kind of hunker down and go with the flow.
CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2009
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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.
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The 'bine' would be coming down the field and I could sometimes catch a glimpse of a cat hunkered down in the grass but before I could do much. .bump..he just went thru the conditioner rollers and was spit out the back end.
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
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Pearlman says that a soft market is no excuse to hunker down and wait it out.
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The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
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The press have hunkered down for the night outside the palace, waiting for news of the royal birth.
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He had a BA in philosophy, so he found work as a fry cook before hunkering down to adjudicate applications at the Passport Office for twenty-five years.
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Their strategy for the moment is to hunker down and let the fuss die down.
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Whitney was picked up by police at a bank in Largo, Florida, where he'd hunkered down to catch a bit of shut-eye.
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He ended up hunkering down beside her.
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MACRINO: We kind of hunkered down for a long cold winter and we --
CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2008
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Hunter pair emerged and they hunkered down behind their overlapping battle plate shields.
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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.
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Sitting inside the car was like hunkering down inside a tent in the Arctic or an igloo - that is how Wade imagined it.
AFFLICTION
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The White House is hunkered down, if not bunkered down.
