How to Use hunky in a Sentence

hunky

adjective
  • Even a date with the hunky Chase isn't enough to dissuade her from Joey.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Bonus: Keanu Reeves as a hunky doctor with a heart of gold.
    — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
  • But in 2018, he was recast as this kind of hunky sailor.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Michael Sheen is the ex-husband who tries to woo her back from her hunky young live-in lover.
    — Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • What is the kicker that will make things not quite so hunky-dory?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Word spread about this hunky guy with the paranormal act.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • The strong, silent type, Justin is hunky, poetic, and shoots deer off his back porch.
    — Nora Kenney, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
  • An avalanche forecaster hooks up with a hunky park ranger in this new TV movie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • An avalanche forecaster hooks up with a hunky park ranger in this new TV movie.
    — cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But by next year wouldn't things be hunky dory, tariff-wise and all around?
    — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Kyle Selig was next to play the hunky football star in the Broadway musical.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Move over, One Direction: There’s a new five-piece, British, hunky boy band in town.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But Craig was his own guy, surly, hunky, bat-eared and unpredictably coiled.
    — Michael Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But Craig was his own guy, surly, hunky, bat-eared and unpredictably coiled.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • That’s how the play comes across, that everything was hunky-dory.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Vladimir Vladinski, in fact — a hunky new hire and novelist on the rise.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Rudy was handsome and hunky in a college-frat-boy sort of way with his two-day stubble and a mop of dark wavy hair.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • To Michelle, John is just a hunky, bearded, Speedo-wearing 30-year-old who's appeared out of nowhere to woo her.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2021
  • There is the shy and photogenic Ryota; the hunky and shy Usak; the wholesome and shy Kazuto.
    — Simon Wu, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2024
  • An aspiring cooking-show host hooks up with a hunky chef in this new TV movie.
    — cleveland, 4 Dec. 2022
  • An aspiring cooking-show host hooks up with a hunky chef in this new TV movie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • An aspiring cooking-show host hooks up with a hunky chef in this new TV movie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In the short trailer, the stylish duo sets sail, sips cocktails on the beach and find some hunky men along the French Riviera to keep them company.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2016
  • Everyone’s supposed to be hunky-dory and all smiles and all that stuff.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 11 July 2022
  • Who hasn't been inspired by a hunky rom-com hero or fierce leading lady?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Matthew McConaughey has Ryan Reynolds to thank for his hunky new nickname!
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Although the girls and the womenswear do get the bulk of the attention, the show has also become known for its hunky male models.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But is a hunky, sensitive and funny guy like Roxster too good to be true?
    — Gillian Telling, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • But is a hunky, sensitive and funny guy like Roxster too good to be true?
    — Gillian Telling, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Soderbergh is amused by this quirky little subculture, but there’s also a lot of compassion for Mike, a hunky Peter Pan on the cusp of growing up.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025

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