hunker
Example Sentences
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Many people here are just hunkering down and waiting, hoping for better times.
From BBC
During the early pandemic, a peculiar optimism bloomed among those hunkering into lockdown.
From Salon
"I went over and there were quite a few people there at that point. They were trying to coax them out the car but they had hunkered down and were trying to sleep."
From BBC
Still, with below-freezing temperatures across parts of the country, viewers hunkered down and stayed tuned in to the game.
Epstein replied, “Nothing to do during a storm, but hunker down, and wait until it blows over.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
