Sentence examples for would hunch from inspiring English sources

Ms. Tsareva writes that weavers would hunch over gossamer strands on outdoor looms "only during the hottest summer period, primarily in mountain pastures where the dry air helped to prevent the warps sticking together".

Mr. Springsteen, relishing the heat from the fire, would hunch over and look down when he was thinking and look straight ahead intently when he found his train of thought.

Mom's head would hang, her shoulders would hunch, and then, with a defiant glance, she'd stiffen her arms on the seat of the chair, hoist herself upward, grab her walker and walk past Juanita with an aggrieved air.

In between points, she would hunch over, the head of her racket on the parched grass, her hand on the handle as if it were a staff for support.

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).

In the modest home tucked among oak trees and avocado farms two miles above the Pacific Ocean, Ballard, 94, would hunch over the sports section every morning on the small kitchen table, pull out a pen, circle the time of the Dodgers television broadcast, then schedule his day.

I remember the way he would excitedly hunch his shoulders at the kitchen counter as he prepped the spring onions, ginger and garlic meticulously in anticipation of how wonderfully they would meld together in plenty of olive oil with the caramelised prawn shells and sweet, supple squid.

Why get Restylane when you can just wear a pompom hat?) TUESDAY, APRIL 5 I had a bunch of writing to do, so wanted to be sure to wear something that would allow me to hunch over and aggressively tense my shoulders for five hours.

I'd correct myself – sometimes out loud – as I walked around: I'd tell myself to hunch more, to hold myself differently, not to pick my feet up.

I'd had a hunch the letter would be important, but it turned out to be for an unexpected reason.

"But it would be so heavy - I'd be like this!" She hunches her shoulders up to her ears.