How to Use hunt down in a Sentence

hunt down

phrasal verb
Definition of hunt downnext
  • Make your way up to Mammoth to hunt down Wild Willy's, one of the state's most beloved hot springs.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
  • Round Top isn’t all shopping and hunting down the best finds, though.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
  • The bad guys Clay is hunting down are not just purse snatchers.
    — Giancarlo Sopo, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
  • What happened to drive the girls to hunt down and slaughter one of their own is the heart of the series, after all.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Part of his job is to hunt down sicarios like the pair believed to have killed Santos.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • Later in 2016, the group of researchers watched and filmed a wolf hunting down a harbor seal near the mouth of a creek.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Trying to hunt down the perfect gift for the traveler in your life?
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Once trained, T cells can travel anywhere in the body to hunt down danger.
    — Time, 26 June 2023
  • Families tried to hide but were hunted down and killed in their homes.
    — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the trailer, which can be seen in full below, Cross must hunt down a killer who has put the detective in his crosshairs.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Israel will now likely go to great lengths to hunt down those involved.
    — Natan Sachs, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Garp then retreats, pulling away his squad to hunt down the corrupt Captain Nezumi.
    — William Goodman, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The Quiet Place series takes place in a world in which blind, monster-like aliens hunt down anything that makes a sound, ravaging the Earth.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The first footage reveals a brewing gang war in Gotham City, as well as a police campaign to hunt down Batman.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Ugandan authorities for years have vowed to hunt down the ADF’s fighters at home and abroad.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • There’s no room for half measures in the story of a time-traveling elf boy hunting down a demon pig.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The woman saw where Sonia was running and informed the man—Sonia knew she would be hunted down.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Authorities in the town said in a Facebook post Wednesday that the bear that carried out the attack had been hunted down and killed.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
  • That didn’t come to pass, but Hall did end up with the gold after a truly incredible effort to hunt down the leaders in the final stretch to take the gold.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Her directive: hunt down the founder’s killer and—more importantly—free up the billions of ‘dead money’ frozen in his will.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Outside of hunting down criminals, Meek Mill has been active on the music scene this year.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 11 July 2024
  • Singer-songwriter Jessie James Decker is no stranger to hunting down smart finds on Amazon.
    — Erin Johnson, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the clip, a knife-wielding Mickey Mouse hunts down a group of young people whose trip to the arcade proved to be more similar to entering the Hunger Games arena.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024
  • For more than a decade, she is hunted down by detective Priyonath Mukhopadhyay.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Their standard techniques simply wouldn't work in hunting down Red.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • Others took the lists and canvassed the precincts to hunt down the locations that applicants had listed as residences.
    — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Also in the news: The Pakistani government has vowed to hunt down those behind a bombing that killed at least 45 people and injured hundreds more.
    — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • But as soon as the food runs out, the bug turns to the pirate life and begins hunting down other unsuspecting bacteria, using techniques that would make Jack Sparrow proud.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In the days that followed, a powerful Ukrainian force began deliberately hunting down and ambushing groups of 155th Naval Infantry Brigade marines—and taking no prisoners.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024

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