Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hunts
IPA transcription: [h'ĘŚnts]
Usage examples
  • I resolved to go on no more sacred hunts.
  • But Shadow hunts me even when his stomach is so full he cannot eat another mouthful.
  • Of course the children took much interest in the trophies I occasionally brought back from my hunts.
  • Being an animal which hunts both by day and night, the structure of its visual organs is adjusted for both.
  • The buffalo is an exception; he regularly hunts a man, and is therefore peculiarly dangerous. Unthinking persons talk of the fearful rapidity of a lion or tiger's spring.
  • He made no more boasts of skill and courage that summer, set out on no more wild hunts, and gave up his own wishes so cheerfully that it was evident something had worked a helpful change in wilful Corny.
  • "The same enemies the rest of you have," replied Old Mother Nature. "But the one he has most reason to fear is Hooty the Owl, and that is the one you have least reason to fear, because Hooty seldom hunts by day."
  • These hunts exact the very best of riding and a fast horse, for coyotes are very swift, and so are jack-rabbits, too, and one look at a greyhound will tell anyone that he can run--and about twice as fast as the big-eared foxhounds in the East.