Example Sentences

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"Everything seems normal to me, things seem fine," Luis Cardona, a Colombian who was visiting with his wife, told AFP, shoulders hunched against the wind and rain.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

“Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those,” she said, referring to the documentary’s director, R.J.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Six years earlier, I’d been hunched over a laptop in Melbourne, writing my way into a new career after selling my business.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026

I crossed the street with my shoulders hunched and my head down.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron