How to Use hulking in a Sentence

hulking

adjective

• A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.
• The cars are hulking and chrome-trimmed; the music is jazzy-perky.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Russia, the hulking neighbor to the east, was seen as the main threat.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• Some of the hulking machines date back to World War II.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
• This is a big, hulking phone, but the buttons are easy to press, even with gloves.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• The actor traipsed through the snow in a hulking coat and a pair of funky moon boots in grinch green on top of a black dress.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2022
• The actor wore a corset with a cross-hatch skirt with kicky fringe and a hulking comforter-style shawl.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2022
• Dangling high in the air, the machines look like insects against the hulking 400-foot-long ship.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• The hulking Twin Parks North West tower had once been a beacon of hope for so many of them.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• On one side, the ground had been dug up to support the hulking frame of new construction.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the clip, the five-time all-star can be seen barreling out of the arena’s parking lot in the hulking truck.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
• The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2022
• Rotary wing work takes place in two hulking World War II-era hangars.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• The restaurant, which has not yet been named, is expected to give life to the hulking building that once housed the Hub Kitchen and Taps.
  — Daily Pilot, 4 Sep. 2019
• For decades, Corktown stood in the long shadow of the hulking 17-story train station.
  — Corey Williams, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
• But not to this hulking Pro Football Hall of Famer who’s walking over to his table.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2021
• With two feet turned to the right, the giant stretches one arm sideways, while the other raises a hulking club.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• Johnson left in the first quarter and spent part of the final three on the Lions' sideline with a hulking brace on his right knee.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• Even Webb wasn’t able to keep Yordan Alvarez, the Astros’ hulking left fielder, on the ground.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
• The pace inside this hulking pile of stone was once frenetic.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• 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
• For the main course, there were creamy mashed potatoes, crispy roasted brussels sprouts and the hulking eight-pound brisket from the nearby butcher, the Meat Hook.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The main new feature of the dock is warm air drying to prevent mold growth on the mopping pad and a redesign that makes the dock look slightly less hulking.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
• Confined within those walls, victims were not able to run from his hulking mass.
  — James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• At least one of those has become routine for the hulking 26-year-old outfielder.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• While the terms were not disclosed, Billboard reported that the price tag was a hulking $200 million.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• Expect the bulldogs to run the ball well behind a hulking offensive line.
  — Wright Wilson and Keith Dunlap, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
• The summit is a hulking granite crest that divides the western slopes from the rugged Eastern Sierra ridges.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021
• Giglio's hulking big sister, Elba, slouches to the north and is visible on a clear day.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2021
• Making painfully slow three – and four, and five – point turns on the narrow street, the hulking fighting vehicles retreated under an echoing onslaught.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024