Sentences with phrase «like hunkering»

There's nothing quite like hunkering down at one of their iconic plastic tables, ordering a couple of ice - cold beers and watching the sun melt into the sea.

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There will always be a market for hard - core gamers who spend every weekend hunkered down playing the likes of Halo, Call of Duty or Skyrim.

I also refuse to pay for internet access at hotels or the airport and hunker down in places that offer free Wi - Fi, like Starbucks or other cafes.

It seems like it's been raining non stop for days, and there's nothing better than hunkering down with a good baking project.

Family Movie Night was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: we each took turns picking a film, and then the four of us hunkered down with pizza and popcorn in the basement and watched it together.

I'll be hunkered down in the corner of the auditorium typing like a mad woman.

«Al - Qaida is as powerful as they are because of cyber,» Hunker said, noting that prior to the Internet, a group like al - Qaida might have stayed a small, local terrorist organization.

As the slugs hunker in ambush, the unsuspecting bird (order Strigiformes) lands and suddenly finds itself upside - down and swinging like a pendulum from the buttered perch, talons gripping in astonishment.

While we're hunkering down at home, I'd like to install the ceiling fan we purchased for our bedroom and the light fixture we bought for the office.

Okay, sounds like you've got a plan in place, and it makes perfect sense to hunker down and sit behind the machine for a mini marathon.

Whether you are a women rushing from barre class to a classy bar, or one who likes to hunker down by the fireplace for the evening, we have the perfect women's clothing for you!

Like most South Floridians, I'm stuck at home hunkered down in my little apartment (that's been through many hurricanes) waiting for this bad boy to arrive later tonight.

Instead of using the environment to your advantage and hunkering down for an intense Xenos onslaught, each encounter feels like a choppy mess.

The scene - building tactic that the film keeps returning to entails the camera hunkering down in a defined space (a frat - house common room, a bar, a dugout) to observe a large group of characters tripping over each other with rapid - fire quips, cutting between them like a little steel ball careening wildly off ramps and spring - loaded slingshots.

It's exciting and comically incisive that the first discernable thing about The Hateful Eight is that it's shot in 70 mm — a wide, uncommon, high - res format — and, after an opening salvo of John Ford - like panoramas of snow - flecked landscapes the story hunkers down into what is essentially a pocketed one - room chamber film.

Provided you're not on the throttle, the hunkered - down JCW also displays BMW - like poise in corners, and is commendably solid and rattle free for a convertible.

When cornering hard (which I ended up doing a lot of in my all - too - brief time with the Porsche), there's a sense the vehicle hunkers down, sort of like a four - door Cayman.

With Selec - Terrain in Sport mode, the Grand hunkers down, biases power to the rear and sacks the twisties like they are John Elway on the gridiron.

When going through turns, it really hunkers down and grabs the pavement, it feels like you are glued to the road.

I like to hunker down in the Mercs, Audis, and BMWs of the world, and feel like I'm in a cocoon.

Every trim level gets alloy wheels and where the all - wheel - drive version of the outgoing model sat very high, this one is hunkered down like the others in the lineup.

Hunkered down in takeoff mode, your heart races, and adrenaline pumps through your veins like ice water.

The vehicle appears to feature a low, hunkered - down body with short overhangs and slit - like lights at both ends.

The AMG - tuned GLA looks and feels more like a hatchback version of a CLA rather than a hunkered - down crossover.

It feels much more like a car than a truck, aided by its adjustable suspension that hunkers down as speeds rise.

But it's also fair to say the more open the road the better the SVR likes it, able to hunker down in sweepers and flow, using its prodigious grip and booming engine to best effect.

Whilst it's by no means a boring or unintuitive vehicle to drive, thanks to aspects like its direct steering and good body control, the likes of the Audi A3 and BMW 2 Series are a bit more responsive to driver inputs and feel that bit more hunkered down to the road.

One editor, comparing the crossover with a first - generation MDX parked in his garage, said the new one «looks edgier and hunkered down, and I like it very much overall.

Not an army, or a gathering of many, as I'd learn was the case with his kind, but just one, one beastman like no other, separated from the rest of his kind, Keeyaw of the lank figure and mournful mustaches, low, groveling, hunkered over from the weight of his implements and the white, colorless beard that hung from his face in a way he had no control over.

She is in her 60s, well past the typical coming of age age, and yet it is at this moment in time — just when her own wind is blowing and she, like the landscape, is hunkering down — that she reinvents herself; finds herself anew.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.

All through that night into the gray light of dawn and on until the shadows disappeared in the midday sun, the three of them hunkered down in the living room, the old man sniveling and stuttering and saying things like Jesus, I wish I still had my gun, I ought to just go ahead and kill myself, and Mike — who would not even got into the garage, who point - blank refused — trying to force the reality of the situation into some less horrible shape.

Like moles in holes, as writers we are more usually hunkered down in our own worlds, isolated from one another, but during a festival we come up for air and see what everyone else is doing.

If you're just starting out, the process of simply hunkering down to complete one traditional length book can feel like climbing a mountain.

Hunker down at The Cove of Lake Geneva or a historic hotel like The Baker House.

The objectives themselves are pretty simply and it does feel like more could have been done with the concept, but it forces you and your to actually move around the map and go on the offensive rather than just stay hunkered down in a single spot for the entire game, which is a problem horde - style modes in other games suffers from.

A brief reminder for Playstation 3 fans looking to hunker down with the likes of Uncharted or Modern Warfare Thursday evening, as Sony has revealed the Playstation Network will be offline between the hours of 4PM to 2AM, Friday morning.

There are certainly other aspects to my new found school success, like having a real passion and knowing what I want to study to just hunkering down and getting the work done.

I'm not unfriendly, but I feel like I've always been hunkered down, you know?

Sometimes I like to hunker down at home in front of the TV and watch hours of cooking shows on the Food Network!

But do not worry irredemptibles like Latimer Alder and PhatBoy and Eschenbach are still hunkered - in - the - bunker!

We see that the moment you sense a real - life threat to your pay - off trough - privileges you drop all your other - worldly snake - pretenses and morph — not into a rat, like you promised, Gates — but into a frankly gross and unattractive, frantic, beserker sow, pig - headedly hunkered - down in a fortified - sty, do - or - die, flared - snout defense of her (your) CO2 - swill bucket.

As a result, those who have been hunkered down, awaiting the economic storm to pass are resurfacing now, and if they don't like what they see, they are on the hunt for better opportunities.

The state of the economy seems like a good reason to hunker down.

Like the rest of the housing market, home improvements and remodeling plunged during the recession as consumers hunkered down.

We all hunkered down under the covers and acted like we were sleeping.