(n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
(3) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(4) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(5) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(6) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
(7) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
(8) Troubled by his sexuality, Philip took hunks of time out from Harvard and started travelling to Europe as a means of escape.
(9) And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind : a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
(10) I think that 'hunk' of Aberdeen Angus is going to be in quite a foul mood now that his prediction of a Russia v Germany final is wheezing and coughing up bloody phlegm," suggests Richard Whittall.
(11) Photograph: AP If Han’s not still flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, I want my money back already.
(12) 5) The Rock may be a great big burning hunk of MAN, but he's not Oscar Wilde Or rather, whoever wrote his lame-o opening speech wasn't.
(13) This hunk of steel and paint is worth much more than the price tag.” The cyclist, who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby, first started returning snatched bikes to their owners in spring 2015 when he stumbled on a stolen bicycle on Craigslist.
(14) The result was a hunk of plastic with the circumference of a beer mat, heated to 130C, to which the labels were attached, while 50 tonnes of hydraulic pressure squashed and spread it into a disc.
(15) By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone."
(16) Only molgG2a antibodies were equally potent with rtNK and huNK.
(17) And sometimes you just want cows falling apart and bewildered hunks in utility slacks shouting about how we'd best stick together otherwise "We'll all be going… TO HELL!"
(18) I suspect the paintings Haslam is thinking of are really 17th-century Dutch still-life pictures with their hearty north European hunks of high- fat cheese, frothing ale glasses and bulging pies.
(19) Little seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.
(20) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.
Hunky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
(2) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
(3) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(4) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
(5) Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked.
(6) However, the fact that #SameOldLabour is a trending hashtag in the Twittersphere proves that not all is hunky dory.
(7) First there was the interminable meeting of the White Council and Radagast the Brown's bunny sled in An Unexpected Journey, then Tauriel the sassy she-elf and her previously unheralded romance with Kili the hunky dwarf in The Desolation of Smaug.
(8) (There's a particularly hunky Jesus by Caravaggio in the Vatican's own collection, if Francis wants to mosey over to the gallery after work one day.)
(9) He was who you went to when you needed gothic cheekbones, zanily self-aware camp, and even leftfield hunkiness.
(10) Also like Michael, I got as far as "the furniture buying stage" with a hunky Marine recruiter who successfully wooed me with a plastic medallion that read: "The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men".
(11) In Paul Feig’s version, it’s Kevin: a ditzy blond hired for his hunkiness not his shorthand.
(12) But he was as male as a wild animal; hunky, husky, sensual, and incoherent or rhapsodic, depending on which style worked best with the young woman of the moment.
(13) If only we had been in recession, then nobody would have come and everything would have been hunky-dory.
(14) As Maupin's novel sequence progresses, Mary-Ann's Nancy Drew-style adventures lead her to a less than glorious career in daytime television, while Michael's lead him, via heartbreak and HIV, to (serial) true love and a suitably hunky career in gardening.
(15) "But if they think that a smiling Rouhani will get sanctions lifted and everything will be hunky dory without giving something substantial to the west, they may be surprised."
(16) Photograph: Joan Marcus The understated adaptation of Robert James Waller’s overblown love story The Bridges of Madison County featured numerous sex scenes between Kelli O’Hara’s winsome farm wife and Steven Pasquale’s hunky photographer.
(17) The closest thing to a hunky moron Britain's ever sent us is Robert Pattinson, and I'm pretty sure he's faking it.
(18) It began at 9am with a screening of Oliver Stone's new action film, Savages , in which Aaron plays Ben, a sexy Californian dude who produces high-grade marijuana and lives in blissed-out harmony with his equally hunky best buddy, Chon (Taylor Kitsch), an Iraq war vet, and their shared squeeze, O (Blake Lively), who is equally in love with both of them and not averse to the odd skunk-fuelled threesome.
(19) As we know from his songs about them on Hunky Dory , Bowie had other formative American influences: Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol.
(20) Plath described Hughes as "that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me".