How to Use bulge in a Sentence

bulge

1 of 2 verb
Definition of bulgenext
Synonyms for bulgenext
  • The squirrel's cheeks were bulging with nuts.
  • His face turned white and his eyes bulged.
  • Their bags bulged with books and papers.
  • Look where plants were set in the ground and check for bulging soil.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The wrapper clings to the bulging lump of filling in the middle.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But on the other side of the world, the ocean is also bulging.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Not pictured is the hat that police say the toupee bulged out of.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • The ground bulged up and out, and many small earthquakes occurred.
    — Emilie Hooft, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
  • In a take or two, Skrein is all bulging eyes and frothing mouth.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The bottom of his belly bulged out from his green T-shirt.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • The device is small but not tiny, with a thin center with two ends that bulge out.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Spain's La Liga is bulging at the seams with top players and world class talent.
    — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • When when the Earth, Sun, and Moon cosmically align, the tides become stronger, bulging out of the ocean more.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
  • That’s got to be tough to pare down, when your house is just bulging with Amazon product.
    — Luke Winkie, Vox, 14 June 2019
  • The joggers, on the other hand, are sans pockets, thus there's no weird seams or bulging.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • Sheathed in her bulging suit, Ms. Khademi walked along the road in a silent eight-minute performance.
    — Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Mudskippers blink with eyes that bulge out of the top of their heads, similar to a frog’s eyes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Bright, fat beaks and combs bulged out from stoic, teardrop bodies.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • One likened the process to pushing in one side of a balloon only to see the opposite side bulge out.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Growths the size of golf balls bulged out of his forearm and elephantine ankles.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Your eyes bulge out of your face, and hearts possibly appear in them.
    — Sara K. Runnel, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The bulging tissue is returned back into the body through the incision.
    — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But under the screen, tangerine trees bulged with so much fruit that their limbs bent.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Outside, people carried bulging plastic bags from a van to the gym.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But Mona had glamour running through her veins, down past her bulging calves.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Baleen whales have fat pads close to the ears too, and their ear bones are homed inside a conch-like bone the size of a bulldog’s head bulging on the side of their skull.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a huge photograph of him on the last page, his muscles bulging beneath a tight white T-shirt.
    — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • But the majority of people with bulging disks have no pain at all.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Cuban tree frogs have bulging eyes and large toe pads and can range in color from almost white to a dark brownish green.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2024
  • His arms, once spindly by NBA standards, now bulge with muscles.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 3 Dec. 2020
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bulge

2 of 2 noun
  • I'm exercising to get rid of this bulge around my middle.
  • As the Earth rotates during the day, the bulge changes.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
  • One bulge is on the side of Earth that faces the moon; the other is on the side that faces away.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • During the lunar perigee, the mass of the moon tugs on Earth and expands the tidal bulge.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2021
  • That will change, and so, too, will the club’s 5 ½-game bulge in the AL East – for better or worse.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
  • Yeah, his eyes are kind of bulge-y, like a Chihuahua’s.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • There were my stretch marks; there were the folds of fat on my back; there was the bulge of my stomach.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 5 May 2020
  • This case isn’t so much as a case as a couple of bumpers on the top and bottom to protect the edges and the lens bulge.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • There is a bulge near the equator, and so the planet’s axis has a slight wobble.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing on a car says big power like a long hood with a big bulge.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Three long racks bulge with jackets, shirts, pants, vests, coats.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • The bulge is packed with stars, gas, and dust, which blocks our view of the zone of avoidance, which resides behind it.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike the Raptor, the nose of this jet appears to have a bulge at the midsection that runs toward the rear of the plane.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2021
  • This bulge of stars has never been seen this far back in the history of the universe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • An aortic aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in the aorta.
    — Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The form would be changed also, with a tapered bulge on the lower floors to give a softer form.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Among the symptoms, the condition can cause the eyes to bulge and appear uneven.
    — Zulekha Nathoo, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • Within our home’s 1920s arts-and-crafts era walls, these new plans made its cramped square feet bulge even more.
    — Christine Kalafus, Longreads, 28 Dec. 2019
  • On top of this, some spirals have a central bulge or bar from which the spiral arms extend.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But the bulge, with enough water to fill a Jacuzzi, was sagging directly above the campfire.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • During full or new moons, Earth, the moon and the sun are nearly lined up, pulling together to make the oceans bulge slightly more.
    — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There could be a bulge in negative-equity trade-ins in a few years’ time.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The merger changed everything: the course of the Milky Way’s halo, inner bulge, and flattened disk.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The merger changed everything: the course of the Milky Way’s halo, inner bulge and flattened disk.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The Gulf has more rapid changes than most areas, almost like a bulge, as if the water is swelling at depth and pushing the surface up.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Panther keeps the Leopard 2’s lines over the engine compartment, but with a pronounced bulge.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2022
  • No worries: there’s a big bubble—trail lingo for the bulge of hikers who start at about the same time in the spring and head up the trail more or less at the same pace.
    — Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021
  • Tides are caused by the moon There are two bulges in Earth resulting from the gravitational pull of the moon.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • This imbalance can cause your eardrum to bulge painfully.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The only hitch is a cargo shade that's mounted so low above the floor that anything taller than 11.5 inches makes a bulge in it.
    — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023

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