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Examples of hulking in a Sentence
A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.
a heavy, hulking stone blocked the way
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Actually, the ferries themselves—battered, hulking brutes, some dating to the Johnson administration, that glide ploddingly along the Puget Sound, their white masses contrasting with the blues and greens of the landscape—have scarcely changed at all.
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Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
Rogers Place, the team’s hulking home, was again stuffed with a raucous crowd of more than 18,000; thousands more watched on large-screen TVs in a parking lot next door.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
Jackson put in the work to redefine his body, and now resembles more of a hulking defensive end than a chunky offensive lineman.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
Early in the Russian invasion, the landmark theater — a hulking, slab-like structure likened by some locals to an aircraft carrier — closed after two rockets landed on its roof, but did not explode.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
On a hulking gray building on a wide boulevard once bisected by the Berlin Wall, a silver call button grants access to an expansive, shadowy, unfurnished foyer.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024
Weighing up to 400 pounds and measuring more than eight feet long, these hulking creatures—the largest salmon that ever lived—had a pair of long, curved teeth protruding from the top jaw.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
Behind a row of hulking old trees, on a grassy slope with a distant view of Penobscot Bay, sits an 1887 Queen Anne confection in stone and black, a nameplate in the corner reading NORUMBEGA in gilt letters.
—Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2024
One worker sorts through the hulking pile all day, wearing heavy duty gloves in case something sharp is caught in the sheets.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
Rogers Place, the team’s hulking home, was again stuffed with a raucous crowd of more than 18,000; thousands more watched on large-screen TVs in a parking lot next door.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
Jackson put in the work to redefine his body, and now resembles more of a hulking defensive end than a chunky offensive lineman.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
Early in the Russian invasion, the landmark theater — a hulking, slab-like structure likened by some locals to an aircraft carrier — closed after two rockets landed on its roof, but did not explode.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
On a hulking gray building on a wide boulevard once bisected by the Berlin Wall, a silver call button grants access to an expansive, shadowy, unfurnished foyer.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024
Weighing up to 400 pounds and measuring more than eight feet long, these hulking creatures—the largest salmon that ever lived—had a pair of long, curved teeth protruding from the top jaw.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
Behind a row of hulking old trees, on a grassy slope with a distant view of Penobscot Bay, sits an 1887 Queen Anne confection in stone and black, a nameplate in the corner reading NORUMBEGA in gilt letters.
—Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2024
One worker sorts through the hulking pile all day, wearing heavy duty gloves in case something sharp is caught in the sheets.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
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“Hulking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hulking. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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