noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lump/hunk of cheese (= a large piece )
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We just had bread and a hunk of cheese for lunch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For lunch I had cheese with a hunk of bread and a glass of red wine.
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Jack cut off a hunk of meat and handed it to Simon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Comets are hunks of dirt and ice with elongated orbits that take them from the outer solar system to near the sun.
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He reached the large block of offices, at least eighty firms doing business within this hunk of concrete and glass.
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He turned round, offering me a hunk of bread and margarine with cheese on top - real luxury.
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Her eyes lit up as she spotted Spartacus hunk Kirk-at 83 just a year her junior and pictured right.
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Just pick up the nearest hunk of high-priced technology you have on hand and hurl it against the wall.
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Lifting the heavy hunks of metal over the chain-link fence seemed improbable and buyers of black-market bronzes are scarce.
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The final project was a still life with all these objects in it as well as a small hunk of plastic ham.