Hunt

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"Hunt" in a Sentence (27 examples)

Mr Hunt is principal of our school.

The police have started a nationwide hunt for the criminal.

Archaeologists are those who hunt for clues about the lifestyles of ancient peoples.

I was on the hunt for lodgings.

A hunt is on for the runaway.

He likes to hunt.

They had a good hunt.

Hounds hunt by their keen scent.

"Dima?!" Al-Sayib was so shocked that he dropped his Fanta on his computer, thereby ruining his noob hunt. "Dima?! Is that really you?!"

I hunt elk in my leisure-time.

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State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.

Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.

Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.

The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.

The police are hunting for evidence.

He after honour hunts, I after love.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.

What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.

to hunt down a criminal

He was hunted from the parish.

Did you hunt that pony last week?

He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

He hunts the woods, or the country.

[…] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.

Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.

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