hunk
Example Sentences
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Typically, in the case of cooking, it involves big hunks of meat and an open flame.
From Salon
The combustible black hunks were pulled from the grates of the plant in 1988.
From Seattle Times
It feels as if hunks of time, especially given Robert’s enduring contempt for her, are unaccounted for.
From Los Angeles Times
Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.
From New York Times
Like a football lineman, she lowered her center of gravity and threw her weight against the hinged hunk of metal, bumping it open with her hip.
From Scientific American
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