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Example sentences for "hulking"

Lexicographically close words:
hula; huld; huli; hulk; hulke; hulks; hull; hullaballoo; hullabaloo; hulled
  1. But before the great hulking fellow had twisted about to where his mates sat and smoked under the lamp, Jason had leapt from his bunk, stuck his fist into the ruffian's throat and pinned him against a beam.

  2. The leading woman is coarse, with no soul, and the star is a great hulking ass.

  3. Suppose, just suppose, dear, that Keats had had a great hulking farmer like me to stand by.

  4. We don't want a great hulking brute of that sort about the place.

  5. When Starlight so lightly dismissed the matter, he little knew what momentous results to him and his gang depended upon that "hulking brute" getting safely away.

  6. Barney's full as tall as I am, and he weighs twenty-five pounds more; and to hear a great, hulking brute like that talking slush was enough to make a man forswear love in all forms forever.

  7. Ned with considerable agility, considering his hulking frame and general appearance of clumsy strength.

  8. But what if she sends me away to fight the battle, and marries some hulking country squire while my back is turned?

  9. To send a couple of hulking men about among your visitors, distributing a mixture made in the housekeeper's room, is to reduce the most social and friendly of ceremonies to a formal giving out of rations.

  10. A dock-lumper's hulking son had usurped Donald's hook in the cloak room and had thrown his coat on the floor.

  11. A big hulking fellow scrambled up the ladder and stood beside them.

  12. Donald heard the second mate growl something to the man at the wheel, and a moment afterwards turned to find the hulking German in the gloom alongside of him.

  13. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured mansard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements colored like mud.

  14. He came hulking up to her, tried to catch her in his big powerful arms.

  15. You swept 'em off their big hulking feet," replied he.

  16. Such a huge hulking brute; now so sordid and useless, looking at last, after all these years, the thing that it ought always to have looked.

  17. It had never happened; soon he would see from his window Carfax's hulking body cross the court.

  18. The hulking body that had been Carfax made a hollow in the wet and broken fern.

  19. First that great hulking figure in front of him, the sneering laugh, that last sentence, "Let her rot .

  20. You hulking baby," said I, "what's the good of pretending with me?

  21. He, great hulking fellow, was a gross lump of clay.

  22. And I understood how it had come to pass that our hulking old ogre had fallen in love with her so desperately.

  23. Tommaso Guidi, ordinarily known as Masaccio, or Tomassacio, Slovenly or Hulking Tom.

  24. They were big, hulking fellows, and either could have just smashed me, with one hand tied behind him.

  25. White fish appeared under the clear, still waters of the lake like shoals of floating metal; bears were seen hulking away from the watering places of sandy shores; and wild geese whistled overhead.

  26. But I pulled into an eddy and let the hulking old wood-pile have the right-of-way, declining Earl's tooted challenge for a brush in the riffle immediately following.

  27. Lecture by amiable Police Magistrate to six hulking rowdies, who have been assaulting the Police, on the duty of "bearing distress patiently.

  28. There were five of them, hulking youths all inflamed by drink if not actually tipsy, and they came around her with shouts of idiotic laughter and incoherent joking, evidently taking her for a village girl.

  29. O' course if they great hulking fools on the shore goes and takes him into The Three Tuns, you can't expect him to behave respectable.

  30. The man was a great hulking bully--a drunkard perpetually on shore.

  31. The man grinned, as if amused, and said something to the effect that such a great hulking rascal ought to be able to defend himself.

  32. How could they tackle this hulking ruffian, this savage in dress clothes who disregarded all rules, who cared nothing for civilization?

  33. On a sofa lay outstretched the hulking form of Jonas, with whom he had had his little difficulty.

  34. Hal obeyed, with huge shoulders hulking and drooping in their plenitude of evil power, just like the captain’s, so very long ago.

  35. The three hulking men still on foot—vague figures, with black shadows on bearded faces, with eyes of fear and dying anger—found no answer.

  36. It was not as roomy as the hulking tri-motors, but the seats were more comfortable and the pantry which the stewardess used was complete to the latest detail.

  37. There was a sob in the older woman's voice, and she shuddered as she looked at the hulking tri-motor.

  38. It was laughable to see great, hulking fellows wriggling and howling.

  39. It was strange to see this hulking fellow dog-sick, and this delicate, sad woman caring for him.

  40. It is true she had a right to be angry; for here was her son, a hulking fellow, visibly the worse for drink before the day was well begun.

  41. Within, a row of a dozen tall hulking fellows in livery stood up to receive Madame.

  42. I am little versed in the customs of the Great, but I confess that the continual presence of these insolent and hulking varlets in the house and in all the rooms would be to me a burden intolerable.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hulking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awkward; big; boorish; bulky; bumbling; bungling; careless; clumsy; contrary; crosswise; cumbersome; cumbrous; elephantine; fumbling; gauche; gawky; giant; gigantic; graceless; hulking; impractical; inconvenient; inelegant; loutish; lumbering; lumpish; lumpy; maladroit; massive; perverse; ponderous; sloppy; stiff; stout; uncouth; ungainly; ungraceful; unhandy; unmanageable; unwieldy