How to Use hunt in a Sentence

hunt

1 of 2 verb

• He likes to hunt and fish.
• The wolf was hunting its prey.
• She hunted around in the closet for a pair of shoes.
• These birds have been hunted almost to extinction.
• Police hunted the escaped prisoners through several states.
• Wild dogs have to hunt for food in ranch or wild lands.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
• To hunt, these creatures likely stood on the seafloor, heads held aloft.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The world’s largest predators, sperm whales spend most of their lives hunting.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• White sharks are known to hunt for seals in shallow water close to shore.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Cook said the call came from the fourth person in the group, a friend who lives in the area and invited the other three to hunt hogs.
  — Skye Seipp, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• Bass are stationary, which means a gar would have to hunt them down.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
• But one of the most spectacular ways orcas hunt straddles the land and the sea.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Is a large, hairy beast with pointy teeth and sharp claws hunting you for its dinner?
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
• Daniele Busca tells of a client who went hunting for rugs to match the artwork in his new kitchen.
  — Julie Lasky, ELLE Decor, 28 Aug. 2023
• And Trump kept calling — four times through Dec. 14, once while Shirkey was up in a tree stand, hunting.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• The ice soon breaks up for the season, and the colony’s newest members can safely follow the adults into the ocean to hunt.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Germany is one of the E.U.'s largest importers of hunting trophies.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• His grandson was also hunting in the area at the time, ABC 12 News reports.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2023
• The two were going to light out from Half Moon Bay on Thursday morning to hunt some deep-sea giants for most of the day.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The state reduced the bag limit to one bull and shortened the winter hunting season by a full two months.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
• Go hunting for waterfalls, with a tour guide or on your own.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But these sharks do venture into deep, chilly water to hunt.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
• And remember, in some ways hunting pressure isn’t a bad thing.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
• Launched in December, the Lunar Flashlight was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 12 May 2023
• Giovani Santillan has been hunting for a big fight for a long time.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• He’ll be hunted by ninjalike figures for the next 30 days.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• By late October, the pups begin traveling with the pack and learning to hunt.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Rodents: Mice, rats, shrews, chipmunks, and squirrels will eat most of the ticks that latch onto them and, in some cases, hunt them down.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• But investors continued to hunt for weak links for much of the week, dumping shares of midsize and smaller banks.
  — Gina Heeb, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• Researchers have found that leopard seals likely hunt seal pups and penguins in the day, while snacking on krill at night.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024

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hunt

2 of 2 noun

• They went on a hunt.
• We finally found a good restaurant after a long hunt.
• The hunt for the Blue Room Christmas tree begins at the farm.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• Others have come with me on my hunts for the past decade or more.
  — Nancy Jo Adams, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• But the hunt is still difficult—both because of the search area and the vagaries of the sea.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• The good news is that a break in a house hunt doesn’t signal the end of your dreams of home ownership.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2023
• Early starts to catch the game before the heat of the day, and evening drives to find them as the shadows creep in and the hunts begin.
  — Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
• Propst filmed the hunt with help from his friend and videographer Joe Orf.
  — Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2023
• The day before their hunt, Orwig went to the farm to do some last-minute scouting.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
• To them, the hunt is about more than having and displaying dolls.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• One of these hunts was a success as three chicks were seen dead and four more were missing.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• For some, the appeal of thrift shopping lies in the thrill of the hunt and the joy of finding items that are totally unique.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The episodes also breathed well and did not get bogged down in too many advantages and idol hunts.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• Dry them out after every hunt and relube with oil to keep the bases smooth.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Of course there’s no sugar-coating the difficulties of the hunt now.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
• So what happened in a horrendous half to open the 49ers’ NFC title hunt?
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• The hunt continues until the group comes across Callie, who shoots Lottie in the arm with her gun.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• The Orioles sniffed a bit of success last year having been in the playoff hunt until the final days.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Sep. 2023
• If the thrill of the hunt is your idea of fun, Surfside is good for more than just beachcombing and shell collecting.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
• Rory McIlroy had two quick birdies and stayed in the hunt with a 69, leaving him one shot behind the co-leaders.
  — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• For many more hunters across the world, a giant bull moose represents the greatest of all bucket list hunts.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• In her 1970 world, tweens were obsessed with the hunt for knowledge about what growing up entails.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• And as the hunt for a spot in the postseason heats up, expect to see more upsets as the underdogs begin to hunt.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Travis Kelce may be getting in on Taylor Swift's Easter egg hunts.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 20 Jan. 2024
• The mission was billed purely as a hunt for the Titanic, and media was kept entirely in the dark.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• If your dad turkey hunts, this clothing system is for him.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• Last year also marked the first time an all-female team won the hunt, according to the media outlet.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Invading the herds helps the wolves hunt rodents, though the benefits for the Geladas aren't abundantly clear.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• Young women from the Awa Indigenous group in Brazil return from a hunt with their bows and arrows.
  — Sarah Lacy, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The hunt would take place in December when female bears are less active and looking for dens.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024