hunt down

Example Sentences

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The nonprofit wants to buy land in Brazil connecting a pair of national parks there so that big cats can roam there without being hunted down.

From The Wall Street Journal

The dolls became so hard to come by that some were resold for as much as 20 times their retail prices, while zealous fans traveled to China to hunt down fast-selling goods.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s easy to find your quarry if you’ve been told to hunt down a flying girl and then you see a child, twenty feet up, weaving through a flock of seagulls.

From Literature

Harry presented the court with the big picture view of the distress caused by being hunted down by the press, with accusations that it was a pursuit that had relied on illegal methods.

From BBC

Thanks to the intervention of our brave security personnel and the vigilance and cooperation of the public, terrorist cells have been hunted down and eliminated.

From The Wall Street Journal