HUNCH in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for HUNCH, such as:

1. Someone hunched me into the room.
2. I had a hunch that something like this would happen.
3. I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.
4. Sometimes you have to be prepared to act on/follow a hunch.
5. He went out, hunching his shoulders together and shivering at the touch of the icy rain.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUNCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hunch
 n.  lump; thick piece; push or thrust, as with the elbow; intuitive feeling
Classic Sentence:
1  He said that if he felt even quite a little lump some day he should know his hunch had begun to grow.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  I shall have a hunch on my back and then I shall die, and he began to writhe again and turned on his face and sobbed and wailed but he didn't scream.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  His broad shoulders were hunched forward and his chin jutted out as though the thoughts in his mind were not pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  On its long back sat Daniel, hunched forward, capless, his disheveled gray hair hanging over his flushed, perspiring face.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
5  Leni insisted he show her a photograph of Elsa, and then, hunched on his lap, studied the picture closely.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
6  The shoulders of our brothers are hunched, and their muscles are drawn, as if their bodies were shrinking and wished to shrink out of sight.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWO
7  Now he shivered and shrunk from the rain, hiding his hands in his pockets and hunching his shoulders together.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  He went out, hunching his shoulders together and shivering at the touch of the icy rain.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
9  "Ask him," said Ben Weatherstaff, hunching his shoulders toward the robin.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.
2  Sometimes you have to be prepared to act on/follow a hunch.
3  I had a hunch that something like this would happen.
4  She had a suspicion - something not even really strong enough to call a hunch - that he didn't came at all and friends covered the truth from her.
5  My hunch was that he won the contest not so much as a result of real talent, but rather through prestidigitation.
6  Someone hunched me into the room.
7  He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.