Sentence examples for hunch against from inspiring English sources

"I backed my biographer's hunch against the art historical profession".

At the doors to the metro, babushkas in headcarves and battered furs hunch against the bitter wind, begging for pennies.

Testing that hunch against reality, I've seen a handful of Scottish comics, randomly selected, on this year's fringe.

Say that the water and I bore the rowboat down to the bottom … my skull would bulge preposterously and my back would hunch against the sky and my vastness would press my cheek hard and immovably against my knee …" (Sorry to have to elide prose so much better than my own, but the passage is late in Chapter 8, and an unmistakable parturition scene).

He says so long to the other patient, jokes about his waiting limo and disappears into Chicago alone, hunching against the cold.

Hunched against the cold and the blandishments of dealers outside gutted apartments, she heads toward Nalle Elementary School to collect her children from day care.

Test intuitive hunches against the data, being critical and looking for counter examples.

His hunch - against much evidence and criticism - was that the audience for his main evening bulletin on BBC1 would grow.

That hunch goes against the weight of the existing evidence.

But Hunch is up against a lot of competition, including from social Q&A service Aardvark, which only recently expanded to the Web from an IM platform.

Hairston said he had a hunch he might play against Hamels and went to bed Friday trying to visualize success.