How To Use Hulking In A Sentence

  • He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • We were stopped by two hulking security guards.
  • ‘No,’ said I, taking a hulking bite out of the nicest beefburger I've ever tasted.
  • Who's this hulking guy who does the pile driver?
  • Hulking guys serve up platters of prawns, steamed crabs, and just-shucked oysters glistening in brine.
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  • The thing is, none of these guys and the others who work out regularly are heavy, hulking guys lifting 300 pounds a pop.
  • Two hulking figures guarded the entrance of the club.
  • When we finally dragged the hulking thing home, all we could do was saw it in half and just stand in awe, gawking at the horror within.
  • The format compacts sound to allow up to 10 hours of recording on one CD, which reduces this production from a hulking box-set to a slender two-disc pack.
  • They bounded over the desert—stone jackals and hackled lions and hulking hyenas. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Any borderman who had ever seen a mountain cat fight a bear and win would have nodded in recognition as Cathan pounced on the hulking patriarch, knocking him sideways then dragging him down onto the ground. Chosen Of The Gods
  • Everything was relatively dark and these hulking machines were taking in reddish white hot molten glass down these chutes and sending out glowing red beer bottles about 3 dozen at a time. LEGO Brick’s — Meandering Passage
  • Scott, you have great taste in bows (Mathews) and that is one hulking big doe. Last Deer of the Bow Season
  • ‘Dimitri,’ whispered Bartholomew to the hulking form squatting in the center of the earthen room.
  • We can't move that hulking great desk on our own.
  • At this her hulking son paused in his train of thought, taking the tea.
  • Lest you picture me cowering in this cupboard to escape some hulking brute of a husband, let me assure you that the marquess has been the very model of solicitousness. One Night Of Scandal
  • In less than a minute, 50 hulking men have poured out from a blockhouse wearing camouflage, black berets and webbing, and clutching assault rifles.
  • Like so many players of his hulking build, he was viewed as a forward whose explosive power was not matched by his stamina. Times, Sunday Times
  • Playing the twitchy bantamweight to Sean P. 's hulking heavyweight, Buckshot bounced onto the stage almost three hours in and powered through Black Moon standards "Buck 'Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin," then set off the night's second mosh pit with the whole Boot Camp performing the Jamaican dance hall-influenced smash "Sound Bwoy Bureill. Music review: Boot Camp Clik at Liv
  • They rode on through the moors, the fog thickening around them as they passed looming, twisted trees and hulking gray rocks, fuzzy with moss and mist.
  • There it was, immense and gray and hulking, a 200-foot wall of boulders and gravel and muddy ooze.
  • Production was cancelled abruptly in 1944 when it became apparent that Germany needed fewer hulking anti-tank aircraft and more nimble interceptors.
  • The morning breeze builds a rollercoast of wind currents and I see a happy bird sailing in loopy loops against these somber hulking offices.
  • It wasn't as though she'd been overly careless; it was just that she hadn't been expecting that great hulking moron to actually hit her across the face.
  • Jeff Pearlman of Sports Illustrated, another voter, found Bagwell implicated by his hulking musculature when he could not turn up any tangible evidence of steroid use. Asher Smith: Hall of Fame Voters Don't Care When Pitchers Take Steroids
  • The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
  • She watches as Anita Kaplan, the hulking six-foot-five senior, sinks the first basket for Stanford.
  • DJ Premier was a hulking figure who worked with a cap swiveled back to front on his head, and we were in awe as he scratched and mixed “BEP Empire,” taking bits from “Joints & Jam” and mixing it all into a new song. Fallin’ Up
  • The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
  • There are also a few hulking pebbledashed 1930s monsters, some as large as 7,000 sq ft. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why are these hulking he-men hiding behind their lawyer's coattails?
  • If Effie's emotional career exposes a hulking gap between the roseate ideals of Victorian marriage and its all-too-prosaic practice, then her stint as her husband's model reveals a similar divide between what might be called the mythology of Victorian art and the way in which the average painting was actually put on canvas. A Far From Model Marriage
  • He had been hulking behind him the entire time, holding a wooden trencher piled high with protein and fiber.
  • It was incredible that this hulking man was once three feet tall. LOST CHILDREN
  • In daylight an innocent beachgoer might have perceived it differently: the long line of hulking ships and the smaller boats flitting among them looked like a fleet preparing to launch an invasion. LAST CALL
  • How do you expect me to lift that hulking great box?
  • His hulking two-metre frame clad in crumpled checked shirt fills the doorway as he beckons towards his kingdom.
  • Padded but austere, square seat and backrest, with chrome legs and elegant stitching, the armless chair — in fact, my entire office: sleek no-nonsense windows; spare masculine furnishings; metal and black leather and dark wood — rendered him out of place and hulkingly redundant. In the hot seat
  • It's stuffed to bursting with arch-villains, secret societies, weird murderers, femmes fatales, hulking brutes, and little "whatsit" dolls made from human skin and hair--one of which chuckles if jostled or shaken. THE WORLD OF RICHARD SALA, Pt. 2
  • If Müntze is a complex and very human Nazi, he's counterbalanced by the presence of his hulking, maniacally leering underling Franken (Waldemar Kobus), who's only missing a "stein" (the Jewish last name of the film's heroine, of course) to turn him into the monster he so clearly represents. 2/11: Black Book
  • This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of the celestial sphere.
  • Giant, hulking water trucks are still making their deliveries to camps and residential areas, the sun is still blisteringly hot, and traffic along the city's main arteries is still atrocious. Susana Ferreira: Everyone has Cholera on Their Mind
  • West-Central classroom, and the rowdy crew of London roughs hulking and hustling on the benches, learning per medium of "the dodger," that one's duty to one's neighbour was not to abuse him foully without cause, to refrain one's hands from pocket-picking, shop-raiding, hustling, and jellying heads with brass-buckled belts or iron knuckle-dusters, and not to get drunk before Saturday night. The Dop Doctor
  • He's got the clear blue eyes of a Hollywood movie star, the hulking build of an Oklahoma farm boy and the antiquated charm of the southern gent.
  • The handsome and hulking father is openly envied by his adolescent son, a chiseled but baby-faced youth who desires the muscles of manhood and the adult respect of his beloved old man.
  • The hulking Americans form the nucleus of the eight rowers who constitute the mutiny. Times, Sunday Times
  • three hulking battleships
  • His hulking celebrity is no longer a novelty, and the governor is dogged everywhere he goes these days by the angry nurses, schoolteachers and firefighters whose budgets he has slashed.
  • Images range from a hulking mountain blanketed with snow to an airy meadow divided by a tree-lined road. Frozen Moments: The Photos Of Ricardo Gomez Jimenez
  • The last reported sighting of a hulking, hairy biped (other than surfers) in the Santa Cruz Mountains was 1980, but that didn't stop a Felton couple from starting the Bigfoot Discovery Project and related museum in 2003 "to encourage the nonexploitation and preservation of Bigfoot. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • 'flyting' the great hulking lout for his awkwardness, and threatening to The Red True Story Book
  • In less than a minute, 50 hulking men have poured out from a blockhouse wearing camouflage, black berets and webbing, and clutching assault rifles.
  • That hulking great man had been brought low by his own demons and was facing a long, long flight back home. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like so many players of his hulking build, he was viewed as a forward whose explosive power was not matched by his stamina. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rae looked to his left and saw a large, hulking man standing behind the store's counter, grinning openly, revealing the man's lack of dental hygiene.
  • A triton was a hulking humanoid, its finned limbs sending it around the frog as they advanced. Odyssey
  • He was hulking, unshaven, and shaking with lustful glee.
  • Other images bask in incongruity, as when a hulking elk lounges in a wicker chaise at what might be a company picnic.
  • They have gone to incredible lengths to ensure the ball gets to hulking slowcoach forwards and not their speedster. Times, Sunday Times
  • They first had to go through the hangar-high hall with the crouching pterodactyl and its massive, hulking neighbour.
  • One hulking sweet potato weighed in at 4 pounds on its own, drawing an admiring stare from the first lady. First Lady Hosts Students For White House Fall Harvest
  • This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of the celestial sphere.
  • a hulking figure of a man
  • It was a hulking grey structure of steel, with some massive boilers at one end.
  • This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents.
  • He muttered something to him, and the hulking guard rose, beckoning to them.
  • Just to be sure, I asked one of the people outside - a big hulking guy - ‘Is this the 730-9 History class?’
  • When I woke up there was a hulking figure staring down at me.
  • With women and with everything else that mattered in her life, but the fact was Livvy made her feel hulking, too. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • From the sands, the huge golem mounded up, taking shape again and hulking to its feet. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • He is trotted out to play a hulking but child-like soldier to no great effect.
  • As she hurriedly bent down to retrieve her possessions, she looked up and into the glaring eyes of a huge, hulking man wearing the gold braid of a four star admiral on his dress blue Navy uniform.
  • ‘I was interviewed by 20 hulking blokes crammed into a tiny room,’ she says.
  • What's missing is an emotional point of entry - a way to feel something for the hulking man up on the screen and the people with whom he comes in contact.
  • The only symmetry was provided by four hulking gasholders which posed as though for a family photograph, two squat tanks looking up to two taller ones at the rear.
  • But on this occasion the Hungarian with a big appetite belied his hulking frame by taking the ball neatly on his chest and drilling a low left-footed shot into the bottom corner of the net.
  • a voice gloated from the darkness, and the hulking form of Tonio appeared. Spell of Magic – Part 4 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
  • So here I was at dawn, full of expectancy at the foot of this hulking holy mountain.
  • Message in a Bottle '' has its dumb points: too many shots of churning surf and lovers nestled in beach blankets, not to mention the premise that women find incommunicative, hulking shells like Blake the height of irresistibility. A Guy Who Really Floats Her Boat
  • Standing next to the hulking metal scrum machine, its curving shape like the shell of a giant red insect, he urges them on.
  • The replica 8 1/2 - foot hairy hominoid -- crafted from the fur of musk oxen and buffalo, a hulking presence on the porch of a brown-and-yellow home in Portland, Maine -- scares the bejesus out of the UPS man. Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives
  • The Von Rogoff stable was almost twice as tall as any of the buildings nearby, hollow and hulking, with a deserted bird's nest tucked into the bend of the iron horseshoe nailed to the wood above the huge sliding door.
  • Hulking like a skeleton, the only house on the street that had an unmown lawn.
  • Modelled on a thousand-year-old prototype, this hulking birlinn - a Gaelic longboat - will soon be ready to sail out along the Clyde and up the west coast in homage to the time when water was Scotland's main thoroughfare. The Guardian World News
  • We can't move that hulking great desk on our own.
  • He is a hulking figure, the heaviest in the British squad at 92 kg, coached by Sean Kelly at Stockport Metro.
  • You know, that game in which hulking athletes repeatedly smash small bouncy balls across a net so that their opponent can't possibly reach them let alone return them.
  • The cowherd is a great hulking young man, much bigger than the man who beat him, but he took his punishment as part of the day's work and made no remark of any sort. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
  • His hulking figure is customarily clad in baggy jeans, zip-up jackets, and his trademark baseball caps.
  • A tall hulking teenager stared down at him and smirked.
  • But from here I can see the shrubs that haven't died under my care and watch my neighbour's hulking, unpruned apple tree go through its changes over the coming months.
  • In Japan, sumo wrestlers are hulking colossuses known for their brawn, not their brains. Student Sumos
  • The MechDoc was a big, hulking machine with wheels and three short, stubby legs.
  • It was called Rayedit (designed by Raytheon, the makers of the Patriot missile!), and it featured hulking cathode ray tubes sheathed in putty-colored metal and keyboards the size of Samsonite suitcases. No more 'spiking' and 'killing' in our kinder, gentler newsroom
  • Playing the twitchy bantamweight to Sean P. 's hulking heavyweight, Buckshot bounced onto the stage almost three hours in and powered through Black Moon standards like "Buck 'Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin" then set off the night's second mosh pit with the whole Boot Camp performing the Jamaican dancehall influenced smash "Sound Bwoy Bureill". In concert: Duck Down anniversary show at Liv
  • But, let's face it, like that great hulking lad who was cluttering up the pavement rather than shaping up enough to get a job, they get horribly on your nerves.
  • Or what about the fact that once upon a time the well-to-do liked to indulge in something called the Roti Sans Pareil, which involved playing Russian dolls with game birds – a hulking bustard on the outside, teeny tiny garden warbler at the very centre. Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
  • Two hulking figures guarded the entrance of the club.
  • Simultaneously, they repeat those lines once more and the hulking man lowers his gaze to the tiny woman who birthed him.
  • Well, I'm feeling like I know this Mark/not-Mark guy that I just frenched and I'm definitely not — he's grabbing my head between his hands again, goddamn he's got big hands, big, hulking, somewhat calloused hands and this is not what I thought it'd be like — kissing Mark. Make up
  • He was a hulking man, almost as tall as that other assassin that I had seen tonight.
  • He did not speak nor did she, but in this great hulking Norseman she was assured of a friend. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • That hulking great man had been brought low by his own demons and was facing a long, long flight back home. Times, Sunday Times

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