(v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
(v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(n.) A pack of hounds.
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(4) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(5) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(6) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
(7) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(11) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(12) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(13) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(14) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(16) Hunt, however, responded to the move on Sunday morning by describing it as opportunism.
(17) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(18) When Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is coping, he needs to really look at what is happening.
(19) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(20) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
Huntsman
Definition:
(n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
(n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
(2) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(3) Perhaps the even more moderate Jon Huntsman might have lost by only 2-3pt nationally.
(4) In New Hampshire, he faces at least four major candidates: Santorum, Ron Paul, who came a close third in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich, who trailed in fourth place and has an intense dislike of Romney, and Jon Huntsman, who did not compete in Iowa.
(5) Romney, as a moderate compared with the rest of the field other than Jon Huntsman, stands little chance of improving on 2008 in theory.
(6) The outgoing US ambassador, Jon Huntsman, described Ai Weiwei as one of the activists who "challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times" in a strongly worded speech in Shanghai on Wednesday night.
(7) In recent polls Huntsman moved into third place in New Hampshire and could become the focus of a bloc of anti-Romney sentiment that has been a key factor of the race so far.
(8) The Huntsman girls clearly have an issue with moustaches.
(9) Romney and Santorum both ended the night on 24.5% of the vote, Paul 21.5%, Newt Gingrich 13%, Rick Perry 10%, Michelle Bachmann 5% and Jon Huntsman 1%.
(10) There’s a big difference … between what the media thinks is important and what the ordinary American thinks.” John Weaver, an adviser to John McCain during his two presidential runs who also ran Jon Huntsman’s campaign in 2012, said he was “impressed” by the campaign kick-off.
(11) Some of them have opposed same-sex marriage in the past, including Meg Whitman , the Hewlett Packard CEO, and Huntsman.
(12) It was postponed due to MGM's financial woes, but having it finally hit screens after the success of Avengers Assemble and Snow White And The Huntsman also looked like a cash-in.
(13) "For me it is a choice between him and Ron Paul," said Breault, after listening to Huntsman's pitch on the factory floor in Keene.
(14) The video, entitled "Jon Huntsman's Values", was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
(15) As a public administrator, Huntsman knew this, and he saw the opportunity to go further.
(16) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(17) Among those who have signed an amicus brief urging the supreme court to strike down Proposition 8 are Tom Ridge, the homeland security secretary in the Bush administration who was once strongly opposed gay marriage; Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy defence secretary and leading neoconservative; and Jon Huntsman, the 2012 Republican presidential contender.
(18) Paul took 21.4%, Gingrich 13.3%, Perry 10.3%, Bachmann 5% and Huntsman 0.6%.
(19) Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman also has seven children, while frontrunner Mitt Romney and his wife have five sons.
(20) Of course, like the Huntsman girls, it is their collective movie-star looks that get noticed, especially by apparently fascinated journalists.