hunkered down

But on a recent Sunday morning the only living things to be seen were two stray dogs and a dozen soldiers hunkered down in an old bunker.

I glance up to see an iridescent-green hummingbird hunkered down on a fir branch, sheltered against the Tree's trunk.

The British, after all, gave up their bases inside the city last summer and have been hunkered down on a base at Basra's airport ever since.

I glance up to see an iridescent-green hummingbird hunkered down a fir branch, sheltered against the tree's trunk.

"Leader" Muammar Gadaffi is hunkered down in Tripoli, defended by army units from his tribe and mercenaries from black Africa.

Communities of microorganisms have been found hunkered down in groundwater as far as 5 km below the surface of the land.

Instead, he hunkered down in his tiny home office here and channeled whatever remaining energy he could muster into a slim paperback.

Residents of Andros Island, one of the least-developed in the Bahamas, hunkered down as Noel's winds howled and rain pelted window panes .

But all three had reasonable liquidity and could have hunkered down for at least another year.

This also provides us with a place to work and hang out when the weather turns foul and we are hunkered down in camp with weather delays.

Hunkered down in the back of a car, Ali Tarhouni sucks on a cigarette and gazes out at Libya's eastern city of Benghazi.

'We're hunkered down and we're not contemplating any big moves of any sort right now, ' said CEO Keith Van Scotter.

I often started the evening at a favorite water hole where I hunkered down by the edge and made myself a fixture in the landscape.

"I can see us coming back here, " said Phoebe, who now seemed to be hunkered down for a long campaign.

I hunkered down, continued to work persistently in the end.

We were just hunkered down in our tents at camp three.

"Consumers are still pretty hunkered down, " said Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis.

The cold season, I have to make themselves adapt to the change of season, hunkered down at home to enjoy the beauty of life.

Into the early hours Thursday morning, members of both sides hunkered down to sleep, and low-level clashes persisted.

Tyrion was underfoot amid-ships, so he climbed the forecastle and hunkered down, savoring the lash of cold rain on his cheeks.

Americans hunkered down, forcing retailers to ring up fewer sales and factories to cut back on production.

Against this backdrop, investors have hunkered down.

Leaving my family behind in Japan, I hunkered down and worked for my friend.

Hunkered down when she felt the bite,