Sentence examples for hunt up from inspiring English sources

"hunt up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to search for or look for something or someone. It can be used in both formal and informal contexts. Example: I need to hunt up my old high school yearbook to find a picture for the reunion. The detective had to hunt up clues to solve the mystery. Can you please hunt up the contact information for the new client? She decided to hunt up some recipes online for her upcoming dinner party. Note: The phrase "hunt up" is often interchangeable with "look up," but it is less commonly used and may sound slightly more informal.

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Too busy to hunt up new stuff, and going into makeup soon.

Loftsson's company Hvalur plans to hunt up to 180 fin whales in the 2013 season.

In Minnesota, about 3,600 licenses were available to hunt up to 400 wolves, which would reduce the state's numbers by about 15 percent.

If that happened, Mr. Gore would undoubtedly want to hunt up a bigger, more powerful bad luck magnet of his own -- say, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson.

The worst of it is that he was convicted as a result of judicial misconduct, after the Home Secretary had directed the police to hunt up evidence against him.

For transatlantic mistresses of the macabre such as Elizabeth Gaskell, ME Braddon, Charlotte Riddell, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, and Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), readers may want to hunt up the older Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories.

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A "fossilist" was someone who made a living hunting up specimens for rich patrons.

And a new survey by Ipsos MORI reveals that a record 83 per cent of Britons are against legalising fox hunting, up from 72 per cent in 2008.

One night, near dawn, he hunted up the old sleeping bag, dragged it into his mother's room, and lay down beside her bed.

"My 14-year-old boy, Jared, found this, when my dad had him squirrel hunting up in the mountains about four years ago.

By S. J. Perelman The New Yorker, June 17 , 1933P. 20 Tells about the many people that hunting up books on taxidermy.

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