Sentence examples for a hun from inspiring English sources

The November con tract closed at $2.49 a hun dredweight compared with $2. 45.

There was a famous Chinese warrior called Xiang Yu who went to war with the Han emperor in the third century, but he wasn't a Hun.

A warrant officer writes: "Mr Churchill and his speech bucked us no end, we know now what we are fighting for and against, it is obviously a Hun element behind all this trouble".

And, if we were able to visit this single-currency empire, we would not, despite the Roman identity stamped on coins and buildings, have mistaken a Hun for a Goth.

A notable adaptation of a Hun design was the neat silver coinage of the Shahis of Gandhara of the "bull and horseman" type in the 9th and 10th centuries, extensively imitated by the Muslim conquerors of India and the contemporary minor Hindu dynasties.

A nasty campaign ensued, in which Diefenbaker was called a "Hun" because of his German-derived surname.

Across the sea, there were the Dothraki, a Hun-like race of horseman warriors, whose brutal ruler, Drogo, took the delicate, unspellable Daenerys as a bride.

As Mr. Laird prepared to board his private jetliner, Greek security men a few hun dred yards away arrested a man they identified as Paul Zahos, a 30‐year‐old New York er, and charged him with il legal possession of a pistol and ammunition.

Very few of us are "OMG totally gorg, like a princess, hun!" in regulation gym-knickers heaving a shot-putt about.

Across town, a few hun dred Liberal party workers failed to fill Mr. Bourassa's headquarters following his vic tory.

At the same time, the nomadic regions on the other side of the Great Wall were still a predominantly Hun unity, that was in confrontation with the Huaxia (later Han).