How to Use hulk in a Sentence

hulk

1 of 2 noun

• The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks.
• Her husband arrived at the charred hulk of the building the next day.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, Danny Hakim and James Glanz, New York Times, 24 June 2017
• Who wouldn’t want to become a hulk as easy as Jen does it?
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Oct. 2022
• In the distance, Hekla, an active volcano, hulks over the plain.
  — Peter Kaminsky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• The hulk of the ship could be seen for more than a year, serving as a grim reminder of the disaster.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• By 1916, the battered hulk of the Portland was a prime target for scavengers.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021
• Not far from the Viper is the hulk of just such a nightmare — the charred and rusted frame of what had once been a blue Toyota Echo.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Winds and ocean conditions take the sand away at times and expose more of the twisted hulk.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• But cramming a decade of Marvel Comics story lines can make the movie seem like a hulk.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• Most of the sailors who ended up in the hulks were from privateers rather than naval vessels.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• The rusting hulk of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge sullies the fine new views from the Reach and the noise from its traffic will plague events on the outdoor plaza.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• The hulk of a man who could make easy work of a weight room has to remind himself that those good head days aren’t free gym passes.
  — Nicki Jhabvala, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
• Once the site was home to a lumber supply company, but it’s been a big, vacant hulk for the past decade.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• Evan Karp, 36, a hulk of a jumper with a thick, untamed beard, sets up a water pump and begins laying hose while the rest of the men race back to the fire.
  — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The most conspicuous monument to the fighting is the smashed hulk of an Antonov An-225.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• The intersection was closed and the plane, seen on video of the crash site as a crumpled hulk, remained at the scene, the department said.
  — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2022
• Crivelli is a big hulk of a guy with arms like rolled phone books, and a too-tight baseball hat on his melon.
  — Tom Chiarella, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
• The blackened hulk of the vehicle is visible from the road lined with danger signs.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• In the near distance, the decaying hulk of RFK Stadium loomed.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• In February, hunters in Utah claimed to have captured the hairy hulk on video, ambling across a mountain range.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
• Once-bustling shipyards are closed, though rusting hulks are reduced to scrap at a site just outside town.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• No one wanted to take on this crumbling hulk looming on the outskirts of the city. Until Lynn Saunders.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• In the foreground a few spindly flowers, or weeds, are seen against the sky, while in the blurry background, the hulk of a semi rolls down a tilted horizon.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• But cheap gas isn't the only driver of the SUV boom: Today's models bear little resemblance to the hulks of yore.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Many of the Trona area's homes are abandoned – windowless hulks stripped of anything usable.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 7 July 2019
• The images showed up on Tencent’s microblog and show a rusty, unfinished hulk.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
• It would have been forgotten, just another rotting hulk, if not for the Klondike gold rush.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• His team used an underwater robot to capture murky video of a rusting hulk on the seafloor.
  — Mark J. Price, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• Gray hulks, massive even from the air, moved slowly below, following their noses to the few water holes still left at this time of year.
  — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2016

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hulk

2 of 2 verb

• Gone are the days of hulking centers and long two-point field goals.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2017
• One foot in front of the other, the hulking old man trudged up the ramp to the Pontchartrain Expressway.
  — Ted Jackson, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Both hulking hitters, though, are soon to rejoin the squad.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 15 June 2019
• Both are in total beast mode, jacked up and hulked out, ready to pop off at a moment’s notice.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018
• At Crunch on West 23rd Street, there were hulking men spotted through the windows.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Saturdays are for hulking bone-in beef ribs that might go for $30 apiece.
  — Robert Jacob Lerma, Bon Appetit, 22 Aug. 2017
• Saturdays are for hulking bone-in beef ribs that might go for $30 apiece.
  — Robert Jacob Lerma, Bon Appetit, 22 Aug. 2017
• Jonah Lehrer basically tells you, yes YOU, to just hulk out and be done with it.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2011
• Instagram is full of pictures of hulking, half-naked men—or maybe that's just our feeds.
  — Brie Schwartz, Redbook, 31 Oct. 2014
• However, the Air Force also invented the Cart Start method in case the hulking bombers needed to get on the move.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019
• In the first scene, Daland’s hulking ship is tugged onstage with ropes pulled by a male chorus of sailers.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Somehow, the youngest Skarsgård’s brother has figured out how to be skeletal and hulking at the same time.
  — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• From the start, his baggage was heavy, his obstacles hulking.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Being able to thread a shot between two hulking defensemen and find the tiny corner of the net matters.
  — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Shiny yellow taxis and hulking tourist buses now share the streets with Cuba’s iconic cars.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
• The hulking monument to modernism is considered to be the first skyscraper in Dubai and marked a turning point in the city’s standing on the world stage.
  — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2018
• Their sizes do not: The 5-foot-6 Sanrezzo is a smaller, shiftier striker than the hulking Bou.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
• For decades the Bush family has been friends with hulking movie star turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• In the north, ThyssenKrupp’s Bruckhausen steel plant is still hanging on, with its hulking towers and sprawl of aging pipes -- big enough to walk through -- looming over the streetscape.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Ghani supervised one Tuesday evening as a crane lifted one of the slabs, known as T-walls, that had long hulked over a road in downtown Baghdad.
  — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
• Most of these are bookshelf speakers rather than hulking sound towers.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• His outing ended in the sixth on a misplaced curveball to hulking Twins slugger Miguel Sano, who crushed a two-run homer to left to cut Seattle’s lead to 6-4.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• The idea is that in a war with China, America’s hulking aircraft carriers might be pushed far out to sea by the threat of missiles.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2020
• Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, hulking lizards such as Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the Earth, while immense flying reptiles known as pterosaurs held dominion over the skies.
  — Mark Witton, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
• For decades, Neanderthals were portrayed as a brutish, hulking species of human.
  — NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Kyle Sinckler, a hulking forward, started at a London state school that didn’t even have a rugby team.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• There are hulking, green machines with paint stripped down to their silvery innards where decades of workers have laid their hands while using them.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• Prison in Zhytomyr, a hulking brick building built during the reign of Russia’s last czar, has cable TV.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Turkeys — often hulking specimens, hard to cook, rather bland — are not native to many countries around the world.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Giving the lie to the notion that indoor grills just don't match up to their large, hulking outdoor counterparts, the Breville Smart Grill is a powerhouse.
  — Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2020

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