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hold stubbornly to a position
The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down -
take shelter
During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut -
sit on one's heels
The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
How To Use hunker down In A Sentence
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- Instead, credit-card companies hunker down in well-traveled paths just off campus; 73% of students surveyed by Prof. Cards Return to School
- It would be apathetic to kind of hunker down and go with the flow. CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010
- In building the ranch in Eldorado, FLDS leaders planned to hunker down and escape notice.
- If you are ready to hunker down and get serious, this one's not worth it.
- The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
- But many more in the city of nine million people hunker down, lining up for rationed water and storing it in pails and tubs as the city's water supply was cut off.
- hunker down at home and watch DVDs" had proven false, and that as long as ticket sales remained strong and funding held out, Southbank would provide what he called programing of Reuters: Top News
- Stand up, speak out - don't hunker down and wait for those bruisers in the cargo shorts to come looking for your son.
- The precious dialogue is sometimes muffled, so that I had to back up a few times and hunker down for serious lip reading.
