Example Sentences

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“The Stockyards’ owners imported Billy Sunday to divert their underpaid hunkies from going on strike by shouting them dizzy with God,” he tells us.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Harris Burnham, hearing his aunt thus condemn his excursion into socialistic journalism, replies by going to work with the hunkies in a copper mill.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bear howled murder as the stuff ran into his eyes, and plunking himself on his hunkies, he began to paw and scrape it out.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace