One by one they bulked black against the daylight; one by one, as they entered, they were lost among the shadows.
He sat there as still as a rooted tree; he bulked big through the gloom like a rugged boulder; he was a part of this wild land, as indifferent, as cold, as merciless.
But some one bulked before the bandolero, blocked his way, dashed head-bent for the boy's side.
The bandolero long had brooded upon the coming of this inevitable moment; yet now, when ultimately it had struck, the moment found him standing off to one side and a good twenty feet from the great rock where bulked up Don Jaime.
To the south and ahead bulked up, even more imposing of port, the lofty altitudes of the Sierra Nevada.
Down at the end of the uneven street, on the great rock at the brink of the village, bulked Calamity on horseback!
Of course the ham and biscuits still bulked large in the bill of fare, but there were boiled eggs, fried bananas and an elderly cocoanut.
All those nice exciting stories, laudably abstract, bulked suddenly into the real.
As the day for publishing drew nearer, this theory bulked almost into an obsession.
As Geoffrey Alison had hinted, picnics are more romantic than a dinner-party and this had bulked into almost an adventure.
The rocks bulked dark in the bright air, the hills wore mystic colors, the sun shone passionately in a setting of tender blue.
His sleeping hostbulked still as a molded shape in the buck-sail.
Although it was a temporary, makeshift town, already it bulked big in the minds of men from Maine to California, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, for it was the last outpost of civilization, and beyond it lay a land of mystery.
She hid her chagrin under an assumption of carelessness, but furtively she studied him, for every hour hebulked bigger to her.
She could increase the number and quality of the little "surprises" she took home with her to the mother in whose life she bulked so largely.
Centuries rolled past, and still Jehovah did not come to His Temple, and the eschatological features which had bulked so largely in Ezekiel's vision remained an unfulfilled aspiration.
He speaks of its dignity in terms whose very exaggeration shows how largely the fact bulked in his imagination.
We realize how large the subject has bulked in the literature of every nation, but it is probably not beyond the truth to say that it has bulked larger in the modern literature of Italy even than of France.
The event which bulked largest to us was, of course, the departure on active service.
The monuments to the lost provinces bulked large in the dim lamplight.
Her wide bright glance went past the tall wrapped-up figure of Patrine to the taller shape that bulked behind her.
He bulked huge in his rig-out, but looked thoroughly at home, and deadly workmanlike.
On a quiet countryside, where all gossip is welcome, this weakness of the lady of the Manor House did not pass without remark, and it bulked larger upon people's memory when the events arose which gave it a very special significance.
It has always bulked rather large in my estimate of the case.
But while his prospects in Europe and the East were roseate, the western horizonbulked threateningly with clouds.
To gain this support and to clear away the clouds that bulked on their oriental horizon, Napoleon urgently desired an interview with his ally.
But he could make out the Dzugashvili, a gloomy shape that bulked huge in the water, the planes clustered on its deck like small, black flies.
There was nothing that bulked on the dark horizon, and so far as he could tell, all the stars were fixed--there were none of the tell-tale flashes of jet exhausts.
He is the foe of the Joetunn or giants, and hebulked very largely indeed in the myths of the Norsemen.
Semiamis is, of course, Semiramis, and it was quite possible that the Babylonian queen bulked in the popular imagination as an Eastern goddess, fit companion for Mahound or Mohammed.
One of the hundred dollar bills that Corrigan had given him he had "broke" in the Plaza, getting bills of small denomination in change, and in his right trousers' pocket was a roll that bulked comfortably in his hand.
Leverage bulked beside him on the suit-case of the dead man.
Depressing the clutch pedal, he negotiated the frozen thoroughfare and parked his car in the lee of the enormous Union Station, which bulked forbiddingly in the December midnight.
She had not been aware, or she had refused to admit to herself, that George's troubles bulked so large on her horizon.
Her knowledge of Aline told her the probable tragedy was that she had lost a brooch or had been spoken to crossly by somebody; but it also told her that such tragedies bulked very large on Aline's horizon.
Gigantic and unformed, it seemed part of the architecture of the desolate waste about him, while yet it bulked there, enormous in the trembling dawn, as belonging neither to plain nor mountain.
He bulked large in the world of doing good, a broad and stately stone in the rampart against evil.
The Baths of Caracalla bulked up in rugged, monstrous fragments, and then in the foreground, filling the whole eye, the Colosseum rose and stood, and all Rome sank round it.
When we turned to drive back over the neutral territory the rock of Gibraltar suddenly bulked up before us, in a sheer ascent that left the familiar Prudential view in utterly inconspicuous unimpressive-ness.
Then, having regarded the ceiling for a considerable time, he found that Honor had receded to the background of his mind, while Myles Stapledon bulked large in the forefront of it.
And there, under their eyes bulked the huge red mills, and every day from the bosom of this Moloch went up the smoke of sacrifice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
