Example Sentences

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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025

Ukrainian defenders bunkered in a pharmaceutical plant before finally retreating over a bridge to Severodonetsk.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2022

“We have shown that we can not only fight, but we can also sing very nice,” said Vitaliy, a soldier bunkered down north of Kyiv.

From Reuters • May 16, 2022

The elevated green is heavily bunkered, and the wedge to the green is complicated by a rolling fairway with uneven lies.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2022

But this not bad chap had "got himself badly bunkered."

From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth