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Example sentences for: hunch

How can you use “hunch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My hunch is that Curtis Hanson, once a craftily offbeat writer-director who found the beat in a big way and made those thumpingly predictable blockbusters The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and The River Wild (1994), consciously set out to liberate himself from Hollywood hackery.
Between less pressing business--like running the country--members of Congress hunch over 3-foot wide slabs of Formica, working up a sweat dialing as many donors as they can.
Just a hunch.)
My hunch is that it lies in Syracuse still--Sicily, that is, rather than New York State."
I have a hunch that he means Bill Bryson, and the reference is probably to his book, The Mother Tongue .