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hunkered

vb. (en-past of: hunker)

WordNet
hunkered

adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down" [syn: crouched, crouching, huddled, hunkered down]

Usage examples of "hunkered".

After a day or so in the hearing room, hunkered down at a press table in the sweaty glare of those blinding TV lights, I discovered a TV set in the bar of the Capitol Hill Hotel just across the street from the Old Senate Office Building, about a three-minute sprint from the Hearing Room itself.

It was sometime around dusk on Saturday, hunkered down at a big round table on the Bal-Hai porch, that I noticed the pea-green Mustang making its second pass in less than ten minutes.

The most active and interesting phase of a presidential campaign is Stage One, which is as totally different from the Sturm und Drang of Stage Three as a guerrilla-style war among six or eight Gypsy nations is totally different from the bloody, hunkered down trench warfare that paralyzed and destroyed half of Europe during World War I.

Once a presidential aspirant gets out on the campaign trail and starts seeing visions of himself hunkered down behind that big desk in the Oval Office, the idea of sitting down in his own living room and talking openly with some foul-mouthed, argumentative journalist carrying a tape recorder in one hand and a bottle of Wild Turkey in the other is totally out of the question.

When he hunkered down, she bent forward and put her nose to his flannel shirt.

As it was, the alley runners hunkered their heads down between their shoulders and glanced around every few seconds.

He rolled again, frantic to keep his gaze toward the cliff, and this time when a bullet whacked the rocks, splinters slicing his thigh-the sharp hot pain irrelevant-he saw his target clearly, a hunkered figure sprinting closer, dropping to one knee, aiming.

She hunkered down, stared at the flames, and watched sparks fly up to melt into the dark whenever she added another log.

She grabbed a sleeping fur and, wrapping it around her, hunkered near the fire.

She hugged herself and hunkered down, leaning into the stone barrier as if trying to fend off some ravaging blow.

He hunkered down beside Minogue and drew the heavy plastic back from the face.

Finally, he walked back, looked down at the wet spot where the liquid had seeped into the hard-packed dirt floor, and hunkered down on one knee to right the cup.

Then hunkered in front of the fire with her eyes closed while she waited for the tea to steep.

Then, with an amused smile of delight, he hunkered down in front of her with one knee to the ground.

He taught a counting game to a handful of children hunkered down around the pebbles he tossed with his good hand out of a leather cup.