HUNTING in a Sentence

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He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUNTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hunting
 n.  the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
 v.  (present tense) pursue and kill something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Most Southerners were born with guns in their hands, and lives spent in hunting had made marksmen of them all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Gerald was hunting for an army doctor to go to Tara with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  That morning the house was still, for everyone except Scarlett, Wade and the three sick girls was in the swamp hunting the sow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Cotton picking was beneath Pork's dignity but hunting and fishing were not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  He swung around sharply, covered the side lawn in three leaps and she put him across the four-foot hedge as if she were on the hunting field.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  No one would think of hunting for her here and she wanted time to think, undisturbed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  His dark eyes flickered quickly over her face, hunting for something in her eyes which he did not find, and he laughed shortly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  Oh, Rhett, I just run and run and hunt and I can't ever find what it is I'm hunting for.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  That's where the real hunting is.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
12  His eyes searched her intently, hunting, hunting desperately for something he did not find.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  And then I like country driving, and the hunting in the fall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Even at this affair, which brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire set, the respectable intellectual set, and the solid financial set, they sat up with gaiety as with a corpse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  WE'LL steal the whole day, and go hunting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  You mention you intend to start hunting, but you didn't say whether your quarry is small game or medium game.
17  Lots of hunting areas have roads closed to vehicles, the terrain is all flat so it makes it a lot easier.
18  Mighty Mouse will save the day, hunting down every malefactor and rescuing innocent mice from peril.
19  I agree with Ontario Hunter, because I do not feel the need to handicap myself by using anything less than the best rifle available when hunting deer.
20  The attack happened at dusk, which the report noted was prime alligator hunting time. The report also indicated that during the warm summer months the gator's drive for food would be stronger.
21  Indeed for the Zimbabwe press this explains "the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake", and they have been reminding us that tourism and hunting are "mired in elitism".
22  The government agency was created to hunt down war criminals.
23  He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight.
24  You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
25  The hunt is on for a suitable candidate.
26  I'll try and hunt out the information you need.
27  The investigation turned into a full-scale Communist witch hunt.
28  The plane was on a mission to hunt out enemy submarines.
29  She had never taken part in a fox hunt before.
30  If you come to Beijing again, remember to hunt me out.