(n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
(n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in his Daily Telegraph column , Johnson said most Britons wanted “someone to come along with a bunker buster” and kill the man, reported to be British, “as fast as possible”.
(2) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
(3) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
(4) One newspaper declared that Mohamed had "made a mockery" of the government's claim to protect the public, while another offered a reward for information leading to his capture: "£25k to Find the Burka Bunker" .
(5) Short of holding parliament in a bunker, there are limits to what more can or should sensibly be done.
(6) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
(7) The first time I saw the building - a stark, unapologetically angular silver bunker throwing back the heat of a rather desolate part of Berlin - I was content to register its disturbance without question, submitting to its strategies of oppression and disorientation as a child would.
(8) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
(9) His organisation has been co-operating with WikiLeaks since August and has lent two of its 20 servers, which are located in a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm, to WikiLeaks, he said.
(10) In an interview with the Financial Times this morning, Bradshaw – who replaced Andy Burnham in a cabinet reshuffle last month – said the BBC should "show some leadership" on the issue of sharing the licence fee with other broadcasters, rather than "feel that the bunker is the place that they want to be in".
(11) In one he said he felt he couldn’t see the band again “even if they offered me a private concert in the presidential bunker”.
(12) At least there's now external scrutiny, even if it comes at the risk of its grim commentary exacerbating the bunker mentality of those trying to make it work.
(13) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(14) Bradshaw told the FT that a consultation period lasting until early September was "an opportunity for the leadership of the BBC to show some leadership rather than feel that the bunker is the place they want to be in".
(15) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
(16) Bunker-busting is a dangerous business, but with average monthly incomes in Albania about £200, the lucrative explosions are unlikely to abate soon.
(17) These data are interpreted to suggest that feeding a mixture of HMC, ground and stored in a bunker or silo bag, with DRGS will result in a 3.2% associative effect.
(18) He's probably still blinking in the light following his escape from the BBC Sport Banter Bunker, a lot of things are likely to seem strange to him at the moment.
(19) NHS faces 'humanitarian crisis' as demand rises, British Red Cross warns Read more As pressures grow for NHS trusts to do what they can to minimise their deficits in the coming financial year, they have bunkered down into emergency mode.
(20) "The arms trade in the delta is dominated by Ukrainian and Russian dealers who swap automatic weapons for illegal bunkered oil.
Hunker
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
Example Sentences:
(1) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(2) She hunkered; she wouldn't ask him to turn up the heating.
(3) "It's all too easy to hunker down and try to ride out the storm but I think for our business that would be a mistake," Darroch said, referring to Sky's HD push.
(4) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(5) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(6) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(7) The success of the operation to remove melted nuclear fuel from the reactors – a process that will not start for 10 years – will depend on the hundreds of Tepco staff hunkered over computer screens in the plant's emergency control room.
(8) There is no comment on current trading, but it is clear that the carpet market is "challenging" and the suspicion remains that Carpetright's market share is under pressure, so the business is hunkering down for another tough year, with cost cutting and store closures in the pipeline.
(9) 12.06pm BST The Institute of Directors doesn't like the sound of British politicians blocking takeovers 'in the national interest'... Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) IoD: "misleading to present AstraZeneca as kind of UK champion...IoD doesn't support extension of any national interest test for takeovers" May 2, 2014 11.45am BST Pfizer and AstraZeneca will hunker down for a long tussle, predicts Mick Cooper, analyst at Edison Investment Research.
(10) With the eurogroup due to meet again next Monday, the financial markets are hunkering down for another delay - but still hopeful that a deal will eventually be agreed.
(11) Hardly anyone, that is, save their quarry: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his lieutenants, hunkered down in a white house just off the corner of Jiquilpan Boulevard, sensed a trap was about to spring shut.
(12) Arrive early or midweek, to hunker down by the fire and drink in these wood-panelled rooms.
(13) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(14) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(15) "Where communities are already divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a tendency to hunker down," says Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, which researches issues of race and equality.
(16) As long as I've got somewhere to hunker down then I'm OK." The appeal of the house in the country, she says, is that "I can hide there."
(17) As the three party leaders hunkered down for final preparations ahead of the Sky News debate in Bristol, Lib Dem nerves were frayed when Vince Cable , the party's highly regarded Treasury spokesman, was put on the back foot for possibly the first time during a chancellors' debate on the BBC.
(18) This is an outbreak that needs tackling at source, and to change the course of the crisis, we mustn’t simply hunker down in developed nations.
(19) All its people can do when evening falls is to close the windows and hunker down around candles.
(20) They while away the day munching snacks, checking phones, posing artfully with cigarettes or hunkering down on folding stools.