Example Sentences

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The wife of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. left law practice to become a legal head-hunter.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2022

The selection was made in collaboration with head-hunter Spencer Stuart, which was hired by Orange’s board.

From Reuters • Jan. 6, 2022

Houston, the favorite to start at weak-side linebacker, considers himself “a head-hunter, a get-to-the-ball, sideline-to-sideline player.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2017

There is a third key demand of Woodward: to be a supreme head-hunter who lands a managerial big beast who can again make United a trophy-gobbling behemoth.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2015

His real clients never knew of his participation, and his prey never understood that he had been the real head-hunter!

From The Voice on the Wire by Ball, Eustace Hale