Sentences with phrase «others hunker»

Many hit the road during this time of year to avoid the peak - season crowds and save more than a few bucks on flight and hotels, while others hunker down at home to avoid the risk of getting rained out — or worse, having to evacuate, in the event of an emergency.

Not exact matches

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.

Other seasons, we'll be hunkered down getting ourselves healthy and ready.

Where others might grab bread and milk when they are preparing to hunker down, I grab a pound of cornmeal.

Of course, there's a chance they could go the other way, too, and hunker down in deep, deep rebuild mode.

While some pinheads work the street corners and mountainsides, others will hunker down in either of the Games» two planned pin - swapping centers: one next to the athletes» village, the other downtown, just 50 yards from Olympic Plaza, where each night the Olympic medals will be awarded.

Gypsies and travellers try to hunker down to avoid it — or sometimes go the other [way] of facing it down with bravado.

Hunkered down in the courthouse cafeteria with his father and several other family members an hour before the verdict, Adam Skelos described how he got a text from his wife, Ann Marie, as he left court Thursday: «Call me.

Hunker noted that the Pentagon's recently unclassified cyberwar strategy treats cyberattacks, no matter who launches them, as acts of war, and other countries may see them in the same light.

Public safety officers and other first responders also hunker down in these buildings.

While some of us are bundling up and hunkering down, others are busy planning for the warmer weather ahead.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the zombies won't learn how to swim.

Since a coming blizzard forces a cartoonish cross-section of nomadic, lying vermin to hunker down at Minnie's Haberdashery, a staging post near Red Rock, Wyoming, it's likely that further inspiration came from Delmer Daves's 3.10 to Yuma and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, among other Westerns that milk the tension in waiting.

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.

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.

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.

Whether you have to hunker down or evacuate to safety, there won't be much time to worry about finding food, water, and other necessities — and that's if the store shelves haven't been picked clean already.

But while other stores are still hunkered down, the motivated retailer has a chance to reach out to new customers.

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.

The race going on between players is what keeps things intense, but you do have to be careful that people don't become too absorbed as you'll find folk hunkering down over their board and the table going silent, only the occasional grunt of frustrating to be heard amid the furtive glances at other boards to see who is doing what.

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.

It'll all be said and done on Nintendo's official Twitch channel when it hits, so if you have a block of time, hunker down and watch some Nintendo characters beat each other up.

Updated, 12:30 p.m. Acting at Haiti's request, the United States is deploying an aircraft carrier and other vessels to help out as the battered impoverished nation moves from hunkering down to digging out (Navy Times).

The first such workshop, which I wrote about last year, saw 40 students, engineers, farmers, professors and others from 18 countries hunker down in groups to devise simple, affordable ways to clean water, chill produce, generate electricity, and solve other problems facing the world's poorest communities.

We wanted it to be at least 3 feet deep, so that it would not freeze all the way through and the fish would be able to hunker down near the bottom if a heron or some other fish eater came through.

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.

Othwise we have to hunker down and try to keep warm by other means while the battery is in recharge mode.

Students will hunker down and study for their final exams while upperclassmen ask each other to prom.

«The theme going forward is that REITs are going to hunker down and find revenue from other sources and prove themselves by posting a strong performance,» says Mark Zeisloft, a vice president and retail REIT analyst with RREEF Real Estate Securities in Chicago.