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(1) We had air raids in school where we had to hunker under our desks or squat down in the hallway with our heads tucked between our legs.(2) the best way to deal with your father is to hunker down and let it blow over(3) I then hunkered down and got real serious, knowing I was going to have to fly the best instrument approach of my life.(4) I spent my summer vacation at computer camp, hunkered over a keyboard programming an adventure game.(5) The stench of sulfur filled the air as I dragged myself across the scree and hunkered behind a dark boulder.(6) I hunkered lower down in my seat and tried to pretend that I couldn't speak English.(7) She hunkers down and keeps going, tough and diligent.(8) She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’(9) The precious dialogue is sometimes muffled, so that I had to back up a few times and hunker down for serious lip reading.(10) The obsessive artist spent hours hunkered over his mortar and pestle, grinding, grinding, mixing.(11) The image once of the lone engineer hunkered down working on a solution to a problem no longer applies.(12) But after the storm's deadly loop through the Caribbean, people from Miami to St. Augustine are boarding up and hunkering down yet again.(13) But it was not until several days later, when our hosts at dinner regaled us with their account of hunkering down in a howling gale to avoid being blown off the mountain, that we realised how fortunate we had been to enjoy it.(14) If you are ready to hunker down and get serious, this one's not worth it.(15) I stay hunkered behind the teacher's desk, next to an open window.(16) Deadly wrecks litter the roadside; we passed a large truck on its side, steel pipes scattered like matchsticks, the driver hunkered over, grimacing with pain.