How to Use hunter in a Sentence

hunter

noun
  • Here, the hunters prepare to pierce the unicorn with their spears.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • At least, this was what some of the first dinosaur hunters in the West said.
    — Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The hunter shot the charging bear with a pistol, the release states.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • Even the guest hunter from the southern part of the state who asks a lot of questions.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In a league full of flashy stat hunters, Rollins brings his lunch pail and just goes to work.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The hunters stand, holding their guns, in front of their kill: birds, by the hundreds.
    — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Over time, scuba divers and wreck hunters have claimed to have found the sunken ship.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Since then, the place has been embraced by both wine drinkers and ghost hunters.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The role-playing game of the same name follows a young hunter called Aloy.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Still, a hunter agreed to give one of the ear bones to Thewissen for research.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Large boot prints near the road indicate that the hunter picked up the dead deer there.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The sense of being at once hunter and prey feels primal.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The fourth hunter, an unidentified man, went to his truck to call 911 and get help.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In all, the hunters killed 44 bison, including one of the largest bulls on record.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The hunter is moving; the dog is moving; the birds are moving; the gun is moving.
    — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The requested data is: The date when the hunter caught the lion.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The hunters handed over the moose skull and meat, court documents say.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The child was found dead after a group of hunters called to report a man in a sleeping bag on the side of the road.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For bargain hunters, Prime Day is often about the big deals.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • One of them, killed by a hunter in 2001, was probably wild.
    — Catrin Einhorn Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • There is an old adage about being a hunter as opposed to the hunted.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Yet if every hunter thinks this way, the kill will not be made and the tribe as a whole will go hungry.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • House hunters, meanwhile, haven't seen their wages increase at the same pace.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The squirrel house is made of cedar and has a hunter-green composite roof.
    — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The left-hand child is holding onto the hunter’s leg in sheer terror.
    — William C. Agee, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • One’s a vampire, the other’s a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 June 2022
  • Dogs sniff out the quail, then a hunter flushes out the bird before shooting it.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • These hunters want an arrow that is quiet, durable, and hits like a ton of bricks.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In one image, a hunter swings a sword from which animal entrails are dangling.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025

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