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How to use hunk in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun

Hunk means a large or dense piece of something. Example: “Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.”

Examples of hunk by meaning

nounA large or dense piece of something.

  • a hunk of metal
  • A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39
  • GET RID OF THAT PESTIFEROUS HUNK OF JUNK!2016, Mau Heymans, Kirsten De Graaff, translated by Dwight Decker, “Late-Night Larceny”, in Donald Duck: Timeless Tales (Disney Comics)...

nounAn attractive man, especially one who is muscular.

  • Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

nounA honyock.

  • "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.1941, William Woodrow Chamberlain, Leaf Gold, page 76

More sentences with hunk

  • Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.From the entry latest
  • “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone. From the entry hockey
  • After all I've been through, I'm going to check out as a hunk of shark bait."2003, Jimmie Dean Coy, Valor: A Gathering of Eagles, Mobile, Ala.: Evergreen Press, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry shark bait
  • I trust you, I just don’t trust that furshlugginer hunk of junk over there.2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil. From the entry furshlugginer
  • If you want something other than quick brown foxes, perhaps you'd like a hunk of lorem ipsums?2000 March 25, Suzanne S. Barnhill <sbarnhill@mvps.org>, “Re: I think there is a combination of keys . , .”, in…. From the entry lorem ipsum
  • A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped.1984, Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man. From the entry rather
  • Hunk gave him a fleeting glance and went back to his gumchewing.1947, Joe Archibald, Rebel Halfback, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Westminster Press, page 132. From the entry gumchewing
  • The smith can take a hunk of metal and hammer it out to the desired shape.1941 September, Pat Dwyer, “The Adventures of Bill”, in Frank G. Steinebach, editor, The Foundry, volume 69, number 9, Cleveland, Oh.: The…. From the entry sgian dubh
  • She shakes her head as her American-footballer hunk of a fiancee Jason looks on adoringly from the other room.2010 November 14, Barry Egan, “Nadine Coyle: Insatiable of Derry”, in Life (Sunday Independent), Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 4. From the entry American footballer
  • Where the plastic had been peeled back, a hunk had already been removed, revealing the glassy green inside of the block.2006, Jennifer Kirk, Countdown to Extinction. From the entry that's the bunny
  • A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business.1984 November 19, Richard Zoglin, “Video: Small World”, in Time. From the entry kept man
  • Your sump buster is a hunk of concrete or metal that teaches the unwitting driver or the outright scoff-law a good lesson.2026 March 24, Deborah Warren, Street Smarts: From Footpath to Freeway―A Miscellany, Paul Dry Books, →ISBN. From the entry sump buster
  • Afterwards, he'd idle in the steam room, or in the jacuzzi, watching the men, hoping to catch the eye of a chubby-chasing hunk.2006, Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, Tourism, page 76. From the entry jacuzzi
  • Rona served Althea coffee with yellow milk curdling in the center, and a hunk of brownie, and Althea said, “Thanks so much.”2000, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, “The Visible Man”, in The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday…. From the entry brownie
  • Slowly more metal appears on him, and his looks change drastically from a pure human to a fully cyberized hunk of man and machine.1993 August 25, Robert Johan Enters, “Re: [ADMIN] Re: Newcomer to the Theatre...”, in alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo (Usenet). From the entry cyberize
  • After a long battle with anaemia that is hard to combat with iron tablets, I feel that what my body really needs is the occasional hunk of red meat.2010 October 6, Wendy Zukerman, “Eating Skippy: Is Kangaroo the Kindest Meat?”, in New Scientist, volume 108, number 2781, London: Reed…. From the entry kangatarian
  • However, a couple of days later, I was passing near Old Jim’s camp and he called us over for a mug of tea and a hunk of brownie.1959, H[arold] P[ercival] ‘Duke’ Tritton, Time Means Tucker, Arncliffe, N.S.W.: Akron Press, published 1984, →ISBN, pages 58–59. From the entry brownie
  • A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194. From the entry unclean
  • She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters. From the entry nuncheon

Meaning of hunk

  1. noun A large or dense piece of something.
  2. noun An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
  3. noun A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.

Full definition of hunk

Questions about hunk in a sentence

How do you use hunk in a sentence?
Hunk is used as a noun. For example: “Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.”
What is a short sentence with hunk?
“a hunk of metal”
What does hunk mean?
Hunk means a large or dense piece of something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hunk (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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