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Recent Examples of hunk Pondering hard questions about earning Rob Manfred’s hunk of metal is what many MLB teams’ top leaders do at this time of the year, what with the season nearly half done and both the All-Star break and the July 30 trade deadline looming. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025 The two both appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, an early '80s hit featuring an avalanche of heartthrob hunks. Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 June 2025 Off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, fishermen attached hunks of bonito fish to a longline and dropped it in the water. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 June 2025 There Is No Captain Gantu in the Live-Action Lilo & Stitch The movie lacks both a villain and a hunk. Britina Cheng, Vulture, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunk
Noun
  • Vinicius stopped the ball with his studs; Guti did a proper backheel, which is much, much harder.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • There’s this one really cute crochet set with studs.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Spending large chunks of time sitting on a train or stuck in traffic is not conducive to good work-life balance.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 1 July 2025
  • Unlike other characters that need to jump on enemies to defeat them, DK can throw an endless stream of haymaker punches in all directions and can even rip chunks of rock and the ground itself out to throw with precision.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • If nothing else, Lilo & Stitch now lacks a flustered beefcake.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 May 2025
  • Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This smooths out the distribution of axions within galaxies, preventing the formation of smaller clumps and ultra-dense cores.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
  • Because smaller clumps of dark matter cause less extreme warping, this sensitivity will allow researchers to detect and characterize smaller, less massive dark matter structures.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Alternatively, get an eyeful of the Leake Street Arches—aka the London Graffiti tunnel—beneath Waterloo Station, and pop out on Lower Marsh, with its centuries-old street market and proper Lambeth vibe.
    Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
  • Locals get an eyeful of contemporary art inside at the Seattle Art Museum as well as in the open air at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
    Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • His lab, the Kaplan Lab, is strewn with the substance, stacked with cases of silk cocoons and wads of silk from around the world, all awaiting their transformation into new forms.
    Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • When the victim initially resisted, the suspect kicked and punched him and forcibly grabbed a wad of cash from the vehicle, police said.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The grill has a large hopper, which Masterbuilt claims holds up to 12 hours’ worth of lump charcoal, and feeds the heat to the cook chamber via a fan.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 July 2025
  • Brunch service runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and offers plates like the Spring Frittata with lump crab and asparagus, parmesan, brown butter, fresno and lemon.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • There were globs of stuff coming out of me, like sheets of it.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Hunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunk. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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