hunt down
(tr) to pursue successfully by diligent searching and chasing: they finally hunted down the killer in Mexico
(intr) (of a bell) to be rung progressively later during a set of changes
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How to use hunt down in a sentence
Inside the country's only wildlife forensics lab, where scientists hunt down black-market animal smugglers.
As he did with Osama bin Laden, he vowed to hunt down those who scarred us—and he did.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Proof of Need for Caution on Immigration | Lloyd Green | April 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe wants to hunt down Mujaheddin with his helicopter rockets without any shame.
The Obama Justice Department was too timid and short-staffed to hunt down the bad guys.
Dozens of other lists with names from those willing to help Nashi hunt down the musicians followed.
Pussy Riot Witch Hunt by Kremlin-Backed ‘Youth Movement’ | Anna Nemtsova | September 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Men of Pax perhaps who had come to hunt down the outlaws who had successfully eluded their rule on earth?
Star Born | Andre NortonTo hunt down witches there, and to bring them to the stake, met with general approval.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantOh, for a Theseus to hunt down this Minotaur of false standards and wretched ideas of success!
The Squirrel-Cage | Dorothy Canfield"Property" is safe, for the citizens hunt down with extraordinary energy marauders whose object is simply plunder.
Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. II (of 2) | W. H. RussellBut when Pope undertakes to hunt down the vermin of literature, this is no distraction of the Parnassian realm by civil war.
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