hunted

Example Sentences

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Human-sized sea scorpions and enormous nautiloids with pointed shells stretching up to five meters hunted through the water.

From Science Daily

Every book had a story on top of the story within of how I’d hunted it down in antiquarian bookstores big and small across the world, and later online.

From Los Angeles Times

And yet now whales that were once hunted for their oil are falling victim to the effects of the petroleum or “rock oil” that replaced their melted blubber as a source of light and lubrication.

From Los Angeles Times

Shooting seasons also restrict when some types of deer can be hunted, and there are strict rules around the type of rifles and ammunition that can be used to hunt them.

From BBC

What do you mean you hunted and gathered ingredients—this, in an age when eggs are practically a luxury item—and stood at the stove stirring, spooning and thinking of me?

From Salon