Read full poem →If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Dictionary Entry
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
In a Sentence
“Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
down hunted. hunted
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Poetry examples for “hunted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →As any hiding hunted man must live.
It was no easy thing to keep a child
Read full poem →And then she died and haunted me,
And hunted me for life.
Read full poem →Well, this was your way, you lived out the genius God gave you.
And they hated you for it, hunted you all over Europe--
Why should they not hate you? Why should you not follow your light?
Read full poem →He laughed and whistled to the small brown bitch
With spots of blue that hunted in the ditch.
Her foxy Welsh grandfather must have paired
Read full poem →the southern part of Alaska.
The Indians hunted the wild animals, and the ani-
Read full poem →In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp
The hunted Negro lay;
He saw the fire of the midnight camp,
Read full poem →_Like hunted castors, conscious of their store,
Their way-laid wealth to Norway's coasts they bring._
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Like hunted castors, conscious of their store,
Their way-laid wealth to Norway’s coasts they
Read full poem →hills of Lebanon, with cedars crown'd 69 Fierce is the tempest rolling
along the furrow'd main 74 As panting flies the hunted hind, where
brooks refreshing stray 80 O Babylon! how art thou fall'n 83 THE HAUNCH