How to Use hunter in a Sentence
hunter
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Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
— Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023 -
The hunter shot the charging bear with a pistol, the release states.
— Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023 -
The hunters stand, holding their guns, in front of their kill: birds, by the hundreds.
— Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Over time, scuba divers and wreck hunters have claimed to have found the sunken ship.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024 -
Since then, the place has been embraced by both wine drinkers and ghost hunters.
— Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024 -
The role-playing game of the same name follows a young hunter called Aloy.
— Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Still, a hunter agreed to give one of the ear bones to Thewissen for research.
— Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022 -
The sense of being at once hunter and prey feels primal.
— Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023 -
The fourth hunter, an unidentified man, went to his truck to call 911 and get help.
— Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023 -
In all, the hunters killed 44 bison, including one of the largest bulls on record.
— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023 -
The hunter is moving; the dog is moving; the birds are moving; the gun is moving.
— WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023 -
The requested data is: The date when the hunter caught the lion.
— Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Dec. 2024 -
The hunters handed over the moose skull and meat, court documents say.
— Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024 -
The child was found dead after a group of hunters called to report a man in a sleeping bag on the side of the road.
— Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023 -
For bargain hunters, Prime Day is often about the big deals.
— Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 June 2023 -
One of them, killed by a hunter in 2001, was probably wild.
— Catrin Einhorn Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 7 July 2023 -
There is an old adage about being a hunter as opposed to the hunted.
— Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024 -
Yet if every hunter thinks this way, the kill will not be made and the tribe as a whole will go hungry.
— John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024 -
House hunters, meanwhile, haven't seen their wages increase at the same pace.
— Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024 -
The squirrel house is made of cedar and has a hunter-green composite roof.
— Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023 -
The left-hand child is holding onto the hunter’s leg in sheer terror.
— William C. Agee, WSJ, 20 May 2022 -
One’s a vampire, the other’s a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.
— Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 June 2022 -
Dogs sniff out the quail, then a hunter flushes out the bird before shooting it.
— Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023 -
These hunters want an arrow that is quiet, durable, and hits like a ton of bricks.
— Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023 -
And doesn’t that Inuit hunter from a 1920s newsreel look like a dead ringer for Fred Armisen?
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022 -
For new bowhunters and youth hunters, a hub-style ground blind is invaluable.
— Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2024 -
Which means that Menzies has gone from hunted to hunter and back.
— Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024 -
The suspect was then forced to leave their saw in the tree, where it was eventually found by the hunter who owned the stand.
— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023 -
All three hunters were loaded into the rescue boat and were safely returned to shore with no injuries, the Fire District reported.
— Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024 -
Fearful that their home near Scotchtown, N.Y., would be overrun by news crews or treasure hunters, the couple declined to be named or interviewed for this article.
— Christopher Maag, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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