HUNT in a Sentence

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261 example sentences for HUNT, such as:
1. Wolves tend to hunt in packs.
2. Be careful in the hunt, ye mates.
3. They sleep by day and hunt by night.
4. The hunt is on for a suitable candidate.
5. She had never taken part in a fox hunt before.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HUNT
hunt
 v.  search (an area) for prey
 n.  the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  It needed salt badly but she was too hungry to hunt for it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  But anyone at Tara who won't work can go hunt up the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  She was born to be pampered and waited upon, and here she was, sick and ragged, driven by hunger to hunt for food in the gardens of her neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  A stable boy who didn't rub down his horse after a day's hunt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  On these occasions Hugh was forced to hunt up new workmen and the mill was late in starting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Oh, Rhett, I just run and run and hunt and I can't ever find what it is I'm hunting for.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  Pitty, who desired nothing except to live comfortably amid the love of her relatives, would have been very pleased, in this matter, to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
11  "Wait till she's old enough to hunt," he boasted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
12  I'm going to hunt in old towns and old countries where some of the old times must still linger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
13  Miss Pragg, the secretary, had been called away, and there would be notes and dinner-cards to write, lost addresses to hunt up, and other social drudgery to perform.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  Be careful in the hunt, ye mates.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  The government agency was created to hunt down war criminals.
2  He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight.
3  You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
4  The hunt is on for a suitable candidate.
5  I'll try and hunt out the information you need.
6  The investigation turned into a full-scale Communist witch hunt.
7  The plane was on a mission to hunt out enemy submarines.
8  She had never taken part in a fox hunt before.
9  If you come to Beijing again, remember to hunt me out.
10  The crusade for sexual morality is turning into a witch - hunt.
11  They sleep by day and hunt by night.
12  Wolves tend to hunt in packs.
13  Those who trade them hunt out the fiercest insects and devote many hours to training them.
14  Up-stream boats didn't generly come close to us; they go out and follow the bars and hunt for easy water under the reefs; but nights like this they bull right up the channel against the whole river.
15  I think I'm going to finally go on a big hunt, and I think a caribou is the way to go.