Verb (used without object) : The driver hunkered over the steering wheel. ,The escaped convicts hunkered down in a cave in the mountains. ,Though all the evidence was against him, he hunkered down and refused to admit his guilt.    From Dictionary.com. 

He was sitting on his knees, kind of hunkered over.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008] Reference

I just pulled him out, and I was kind of hunkered over him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005] Reference

But there are also a lot of people that kind of hunkered down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference

So clearly they are kind of hunkered down, waiting out for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

MACRINO: We kind of hunkered down for a long cold winter and we.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2008] Reference

Back, kind of hunkered over and he hit right beside him or right behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008] Reference

There are people that just kind of hunkered down and are weathering the storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference

So most people are just kind of hunkered down waiting for this thing to move past them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

He was kind of hunkered down on his heels in the old cowboy squat, his elbows on his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willie]

"Everyone kind of hunkered down in place at the entrance after making sure the back door was locked," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [News/local from www.dailyamerican.com] Reference

Officials at Mount Sentinel Secondary School "hunkered" in the principal's office for days, trying to get information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"They've closed the dining room for safety reasons, they're hungry, so they're just kind of hunkered down in their hotel room.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

"I suspect that the churches are feeling the effect of their congregants who are just kind of hunkered down and conserving their cash,".    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

"hunkered" down close to its edge -- in such a position as to embrace the fire between his thighs, and have it nearly under him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The Laffertys hunkered down to prepare for the last days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder In The Name Of God] Reference

     Andy and I hunkered down in the sheets and listened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference

They were all hunkered over, tapping away at their smart phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired is as wired does] Reference

 She found a seat near an opened window and hunkered in to wait it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Life] Reference

She spent the next couple of days hunkered down, not granting interviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spouse: The General's Own Mp] Reference

We might visit friends, if any can be found not hunkered down by the tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Farewell To Fandom] Reference

The car automatically hunkered down about an inch, lowering its center of gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Porsche to Fit the Whole Family] Reference

Billy nodded once more and hunkered his weight down to a comfortable crouch to doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference

Gore hunkered down to listen -- intently, repeatedly -- to the high court on audiotape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al At The Brink] Reference

Rangel, who has denied the allegations, didn't spend the weekend hunkered down with lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite House ethics probe, Charles Rangel's support remains strong in Harlem] Reference

So Marks hunkered down with his wife in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and gave up gin for herbal potions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepatitis C: The Insidious Spread Of A Killer Virus] Reference

Most other CEOs seem to be hunkered down, conserving cash rather than restructuring their businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’s Watching the Money?] Reference

Deadly enemy: Still, the industry is hunkered down in the face of the massive shift in public attitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potholes Ahead On Tobacco Road] Reference

Just hours after The Toppling, he was hunkered down with newsletter writers from stock-brokerage houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different From Dad] Reference

The day of those first surrenders, the information warriors were hunkered down in their nondescript trailer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front Line: The Io Options] Reference

The couple had hunkered down as the storm's eye passed over on Monday and the wind howled at more than 100 mph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisiana Mops Up] Reference

So earlier this year he hunkered down, stopped going to auto shows and declared a "performance crisis" at his company.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rock Star Is Reborn] Reference

The candidate was hunkered down at the ranch, going mano a mano for a couple of endless, empty minutes with the anchorman.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's The Cult Of Personality] Reference

Like the South Vietnamese government, the Iraqi politicians hunkered down in the Green Zone have little legitimacy any longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why America's Pullout From Vietnam Worked] Reference

The workers went on strike for weeks as the director hunkered down in his office, protected from the Americans by armed guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [They're Bearish On Russia] Reference

NATO sources say that, with Serb armor hunkered down to avoid airstrikes, the guerrillas have begun mounting hit-and-run raids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind A Band Of Rebels] Reference

For Ariel Sharon and thousands of Israeli troops hunkered down inside enemy territory, the claim can no longer be taken lightly.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Another Lebanon'] Reference

Everyone in Lausha is now KLA, from the schoolteachers distributing rations to the uniformed farm boys hunkered down in lookouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kla's Moment] Reference

I hunkered down and climbed up the long, steep tunnel (four feet high in places) into Cheops 'burial chamber in the Great Pyramid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life As A Dying Man] Reference

For hours, two dozen top execs have hunkered over their keyboards as an instructor drills them in the basics of electronic literacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fear Of Flaming] Reference