noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
sit
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Then he sat back on his haunches and sniffed the air, holding his paws in the air for quiet.
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As she approached the six she saw others at the far goal sit oil their haunches and grin at her.
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George sat on his haunches , biting his lip inside the mask.
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Then he stopped dead and sat back on his haunches .
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Slowly she slid down the wall, her back cold against the plaster until she sat upon her haunches .
squat
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Finally he broke away and went and squatted on his haunches by the stream.
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People crammed every square foot of the deck, squatting on their haunches shoulder to shoulder.
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Hazel squatted on his haunches and stared at the orderly forest of small, glaucous trees with their columns of black-and-white bloom.
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He is still unable to squat on his haunches to examine a putt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally he broke away and went and squatted on his haunches by the stream.
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Its front paws were folded back beneath its body and its back paws disappeared beneath its round rear haunches.
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Sinnett rose on his haunches and craned his neck from the other side.
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Sure enough, she was still there, sitting on her haunches eyeing me thoughtfully.
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They have the charming habit of sitting up on their haunches and basking in the early morning sun.
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To talk, they often got down on their haunches and hunkered.
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Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred, and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts' haunches.