How to Use bulge in a Sentence

bulge

1 of 2 verb
  • The squirrel's cheeks were bulging with nuts.
  • His face turned white and his eyes bulged.
  • Their bags bulged with books and papers.
  • Look where plants were set in the ground and check for bulging soil.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • At one point, the tank began to bulge.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • The shop is packed with books, with shelves bulging from floor to ceiling.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Not pictured is the hat that police say the toupee bulged out of.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • But on the other side of the world, the ocean is also bulging.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In a take or two, Skrein is all bulging eyes and frothing mouth.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The ground bulged up and out, and many small earthquakes occurred.
    — Emilie Hooft, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
  • Bright, fat beaks and combs bulged out from stoic, teardrop bodies.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The workshop was a leather Pouch, bulging with what a child can win.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The device is small but not tiny, with a thin center with two ends that bulge out.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The wrapper clings to the bulging lump of filling in the middle.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Your eyes bulge out of your face, and hearts possibly appear in them.
    — Sara K. Runnel, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But Mona had glamour running through her veins, down past her bulging calves.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • If a can is bulging, swollen, rusted or badly dented, throw it out.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But under the screen, tangerine trees bulged with so much fruit that their limbs bent.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • There's the bug, their main mascot, a green critter with giant bulging eyes.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The top of my head had been level with the bulging briefcase the girl had tucked under her arm.
    — Annie Ernaux, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Drahi’s personal pocket was now bulging with art.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The joggers, on the other hand, are sans pockets, thus there's no weird seams or bulging.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • That’s got to be tough to pare down, when your house is just bulging with Amazon product.
    — Luke Winkie, Vox, 14 June 2019
  • But the majority of people with bulging disks have no pain at all.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Growths the size of golf balls bulged out of his forearm and elephantine ankles.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • With a sharp chisel, gradually pare away the wood fibers that are bulging out.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Outside, people carried bulging plastic bags from a van to the gym.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • While some are covered in bulging muscles from top to bottom, others are lanky and lean.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Spain's La Liga is bulging at the seams with top players and world class talent.
    — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Mudskippers blink with eyes that bulge out of the top of their heads, similar to a frog’s eyes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023

bulge

2 of 2 noun
  • I'm exercising to get rid of this bulge around my middle.
  • An aneurysm is a bulge in an artery in the brain.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Three long racks bulge with jackets, shirts, pants, vests, coats.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • Nothing on a car says big power like a long hood with a big bulge.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There were my stretch marks; there were the folds of fat on my back; there was the bulge of my stomach.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 5 May 2020
  • Even slight bulges or warping can break dense connections.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Air bubbles, cracks and bulges in a tire's sidewall could all warrant a tire change.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • One bulge is on the side of Earth that faces the moon; the other is on the side that faces away.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • But, if the valves weaken or become damaged, blood can pool around them, and the veins bulge.
    — Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Then, there won’t be large tidal bulges of water to cause the Moon to get more distant.
    — Stephen Dikerby, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Along each stem is a bump or bulge where leaves previously attached to the stem.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This bulge of stars has never been seen this far back in the history of the universe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • In the future, the system could shrink to a small bulge on an optical fiber.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • There could be a bulge in negative-equity trade-ins in a few years’ time.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • There is a bulge near the equator, and so the planet’s axis has a slight wobble.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Her mother’s eyebrows knit so tightly that the folds in between bulge white.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • The study found that flu viruses need bigger bulges on the cell’s surface to get inside.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
  • On top of this, some spirals have a central bulge or bar from which the spiral arms extend.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This tidal force causes the oceans to slosh around in two bulges that point toward and away from the Moon.
    — Stephen Dikerby, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The form would be changed also, with a tapered bulge on the lower floors to give a softer form.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Uneven tire wear, low tire pressure, sidewall bulges or blisters and dents in wheel rims.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • During the lunar perigee, the mass of the moon tugs on Earth and expands the tidal bulge.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2021
  • He was forced to make a handful of high-danger saves to keep it at a two-goal bulge for the B’s.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The bulge is packed with stars, gas, and dust, which blocks our view of the zone of avoidance, which resides behind it.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This case isn’t so much as a case as a couple of bumpers on the top and bottom to protect the edges and the lens bulge.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Among the symptoms, the condition can cause the eyes to bulge and appear uneven.
    — Zulekha Nathoo, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • Singer Sam Smith is opening up about his longtime battle with the bulge.
    — Karu F Daniels, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Our Milky Way is believed to be a spiral disk of stars with a big bulge in the middle.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Inspect hoses every six months for damage like cracks, bulges, or corrosion to avoid leaks or bursts.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 15 June 2026
  • Within the stomach of the fossil was a curious bulge of other bones.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Aug. 2020

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