hunt out

phrasal verb

hunted out; hunting out; hunts out

: to find (something) after searching for it

It took a while to hunt out the papers, but we finally found everything we needed.

Examples of hunt out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hunnicutt is the gray wolf coordinator for the state of California, responsible for the complicated and nuanced job of protecting a re-emerging species that was once hunted out of existence here, while also making sure that humans and livestock can live alongside them. —Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025

Perry and editor Clyde Folley have watched movies and television shows for a decade now, hunting out depictions of video stores in cinema. —Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 July 2025

This was a bird so docile and unafraid of environmental threats it was hunted out of existence in less than 100 years. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025

Modern domestic cats do not hunt out of hunger but to satisfy their natural instincts. —Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025

If 10 hours on stand are too much, sleep in, sneak to your spot at 9 a.m., and hunt out the rest of the day. —Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024

Rhymes for hunt out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout