hunch up
Example Sentences
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They hunch up their backs when they are annoyed, and she was annoyed.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2019
I hunch up my shoulders and go, “Heeeowl!”
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I’m surprised how fast I got used to the cold even though the wind makes me hunch up my shoulders and walk fast.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Gripping the edges of his tray of half-eaten food, Daryl's knuckles turn white and his shoulders hunch up in a desperate attempt to hide the look of humiliation burning his face.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
The men of the Parliament make excuses and hunch up their backs in fear lest I should bite, but they grant nothing.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
