Sentence examples for were hunting out from inspiring English sources

They were hunting out shots last night.

"It's far safer than if you were hunting out of a helicopter," he told the Observer.

By 15:00 the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment was in Amman and, with the 5th Light Horse Regiment, were "hunting out snipers and capturing prisoners".

What I observed myself is the opposite, and I show it: Kurds, peshmergas, bringing back Arabs and giving them back their villages after they were hunted out by Isis.

Nor could anyone who saw the immense North American herds of bison imagine that they would nearly be hunted out by the 1880s, which was a disaster for the species, for the ecosystem that bison shaped and for American Indians, who depended on bison.

All the prey has been hunted out," says Karanth.

The animals were hunted out of existence during Colonial times; they returned to the state only in the 1970s.

But over the subsequent 75 years, Montana's buffalo – also known as the American Bison – were hunted out of existence.

In the developint commercial farmlands of South-West Africa (now Namibia) almost all the lions were hunted out.

In Germany, where they were hunted out of existence in the 19th century, there are now thought to be around 160 wolves in 17 packs in the state of Brandenburg.

They were hunted out of their positions [and] ruined in their businesses".