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Would you use single quotes around 'hunt'? And please forgive me for giving more than just the sentence in question. I want you to have the context.

Without you at their side, we may as well kiss them both good-bye. And besides, I wouldn’t call tonight a ‘hunt,’ really. More like an intimate gathering to remind her of what she can expect, having dared to cross swords with me again.”
 
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Martydee said:
Would you use single quotes around 'hunt'? And please forgive me for giving more than just the sentence in question. I want you to have the context.

Without you at their side, we may as well kiss them both good-bye. And besides, I wouldn’t call tonight a ‘hunt,’ really. More like an intimate gathering to remind her of what she can expect, having dared to cross swords with me again.”
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Martydee, since your line has a double end quote, I'll assume you meant to start the line with a double quotation mark. In that case, to answer your specific question, your use of the single quote marks around hunt is correct for a U.S. publisher:

"Without you at their side, we may as well kiss them both good-bye. And besides, I wouldn’t call tonight a ‘hunt,’ really. More like an intimate gathering to remind her of what she can expect, having dared to cross swords with me again.”

For U.S. prose publications, the only use for single quotation marks is for quotes within quotes.

For publishers outside the United States, the publisher's rule may be different.
 

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Thanks, Chase. So you'd use single quotes rather than italics?
 
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