Example Sentences

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Things apparently got cozy, and they confided that they had hunted a mountain lion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

Modi said Biden had mentioned the connection to him previously, so he had hunted for documents that could help fill in the gaps in the family tree.

From Reuters • Sep. 24, 2021

Then she recalled with a smile the day in 2016 when 88 bison arrived on the Blackfeet Reservation from Alberta's Elk Island National Park, descendants of the same herds her great-great-grandfather had hunted.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2021

The event — spanning three days — featured local and seasonal dishes, made of ingredients the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe had hunted and gathered long before the Pilgrims immigrated to present-day Massachusetts.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

He must hunt it by guess, by hunch, by luck, even as it had hunted him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin