How to Use hunt down in a Sentence
hunt down
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Was there really an all-out attempt to hunt down the best talent?
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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Naturally, the next order of business is to hunt down the bear and end it.
—Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
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Here are a few of our favorite melon varieties to hunt down this summer.
—Joanna Sciarrino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026
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Totally stylish—but don’t worry about hunting down the rest of the matching set.
—Cori Sears, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
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The head of each family joins the game and whoever can hunt down the errant bride and kill her first gets to rule the world.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
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Anyone who sets foot there can be spotted by a drone operator - and hunted down.
—Holly Williams, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Anyone who steps foot there can be spotted by a drone operator, and hunted down.
—Holly Williams, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
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On one occasion, his father, Marland, went out with a saw to hunt down the culprits.
—Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
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Tanaka had a shocking death in the final season, leading Magnum to hunt down his killer.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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The Bears appear to be hunting down interior defensive line help in the first round.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
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It’s expected that the Lions will be hunting down an offensive tackle in the first round.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
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Ocean predators such as the seal, whale, dolphin, and walrus would be hunted down and made into supermarket steaks.
—David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
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That would leave the Cowboys hunting down a physical edge who can rush the passer and get after the backfield in the run game.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2026
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DirecTV sent programmatic code in the stream… that hunted down hacked smart cards and destroyed them.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
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Oprah wore a belt bag just like this one on a trip to Australia earlier this year, which inspired me to hunt down an Amazon lookalike.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 22 May 2026
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Scientists now believe Port and Starboard might even be teaching other orcas how to hunt down sharks.
—Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
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Imo’s has dozens of locations across the metro area, so trying the city’s signature pie doesn’t require hunting down a single restaurant.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2026
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There was always someone who wanted to go to a bookstore with you to hunt down a copy of Percy Jackson in Greek.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 26 May 2026
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The innards of the East Wing were spread out for everyone to see, like a rare and precious animals that had been hunted down and killed.
—Rita Braver, CBS News, 31 May 2026
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As Fox Sports hunts down opportunities to elevate its product, its third season may be its best yet.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
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On Coruscant, the crew must hunt down a Sentinel Assault Shuttle.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 May 2026
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Coffee lovers were stuck with their local shops, grocery stores, or hunting down individual roaster websites.
—Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 8 June 2026
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The squad comes through just in the nick of time and saves Imani, while Voight hunts down Kirby, who was somewhere in the building trying to escape.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 May 2026
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The Glamour team has been hard at work hunting down the most covetable new arrivals, all while keeping spring’s emerging trends and busy social calendars top of mind.
—Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
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Burnstine suggested bypassing highway tourist traps and downloading tracking apps to hunt down cheap fuel.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
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International tourists are ditching the cookie-cutter sightseeing traps and hunting down places with soul—spots that feel lived-in, local, and layered with meaning.
—Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026
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What begins as a tool for revenge gradually reveals a darker agenda, as the garment compels Leslie to hunt down the killer of its previous wearer.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
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For many here, Khalil’s death reflected a larger pattern — first seen in the Gaza Strip — of Israel hunting down reporters.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Vanguard exists to hunt down wild, unproven chip architectures and test them against real-world national security workloads.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
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This time around, a serial stalker hunts down men and women alike, taunting them with videos filmed of them and rhyming texts, the detectives trying to track potential victims and save them before they’re killed.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
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