How to Use hulk in a Sentence

hulk

1 of 2 noun
  • The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks.
  • Her husband arrived at the charred hulk of the building the next day.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, Danny Hakim and James Glanz, New York Times, 24 June 2017
  • Winds and ocean conditions take the sand away at times and expose more of the twisted hulk.
    — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2019
  • Most of the sailors who ended up in the hulks were from privateers rather than naval vessels.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
  • In the distance, Hekla, an active volcano, hulks over the plain.
    — Peter Kaminsky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The hulk of the ship could be seen for more than a year, serving as a grim reminder of the disaster.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Once-bustling shipyards are closed, though rusting hulks are reduced to scrap at a site just outside town.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Not to mention that her blood might also create other hulk variants.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The hulk of a man who could make easy work of a weight room has to remind himself that those good head days aren’t free gym passes.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
  • But cramming a decade of Marvel Comics story lines can make the movie seem like a hulk.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • His team used an underwater robot to capture murky video of a rusting hulk on the seafloor.
    — Mark J. Price, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The small island indeed looks like a tranquil hulk with a protruding belly.
    — Ellen Perlman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • It would have been forgotten, just another rotting hulk, if not for the Klondike gold rush.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • But Lobo isn't some mindless arrogant hulk out to impose his indomitable will.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 6 June 2026
  • The images showed up on Tencent’s microblog and show a rusty, unfinished hulk.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Many of the Trona area's homes are abandoned – windowless hulks stripped of anything usable.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 7 July 2019
  • Gray hulks, massive even from the air, moved slowly below, following their noses to the few water holes still left at this time of year.
    — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2016
  • The intersection was closed and the plane, seen on video of the crash site as a crumpled hulk, remained at the scene, the department said.
    — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • By 1916, the battered hulk of the Portland was a prime target for scavengers.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021
  • In the foreground a few spindly flowers, or weeds, are seen against the sky, while in the blurry background, the hulk of a semi rolls down a tilted horizon.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • Last night, as Navy fire fighters began cooling the hulk with streams of water, first proof was found that some of the missing nine persons died aboard.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2018
  • The black hulk, fueled mostly by oak and hickory, along with an Argentine grill and box smoker in the kitchen, flavor much of the menu.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2022
  • Guardiola’s players were too quick, too bright, too smart for the lumbering hulks José Mourinho had sent out to try to quell them.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Evan Karp, 36, a hulk of a jumper with a thick, untamed beard, sets up a water pump and begins laying hose while the rest of the men race back to the fire.
    — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • In the near distance, the decaying hulk of RFK Stadium loomed.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • Skiing Shasta on the Fourth of July is a local tradition, but this year its snowy peak is instead a rocky hulk.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2021
  • Several plans to remake the rusting hulk as a hive of restaurants, shops, apartments and offices — a humbler version of the Pearl — went nowhere.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The most conspicuous monument to the fighting is the smashed hulk of an Antonov An-225.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The rusting hulk of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge sullies the fine new views from the Reach and the noise from its traffic will plague events on the outdoor plaza.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019

hulk

2 of 2 verb
  • Gone are the days of hulking centers and long two-point field goals.
    — Matt Giles, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Both are in total beast mode, jacked up and hulked out, ready to pop off at a moment’s notice.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Most of these are bookshelf speakers rather than hulking sound towers.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Saturdays are for hulking bone-in beef ribs that might go for $30 apiece.
    — Robert Jacob Lerma, Bon Appetit, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Instagram is full of pictures of hulking, half-naked men—or maybe that's just our feeds.
    — Brie Schwartz, Redbook, 31 Oct. 2014
  • From the start, his baggage was heavy, his obstacles hulking.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Shiny yellow taxis and hulking tourist buses now share the streets with Cuba’s iconic cars.
    — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
  • In the first scene, Daland’s hulking ship is tugged onstage with ropes pulled by a male chorus of sailers.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Being able to thread a shot between two hulking defensemen and find the tiny corner of the net matters.
    — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • For decades, Neanderthals were portrayed as a brutish, hulking species of human.
    — NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • There are hulking, green machines with paint stripped down to their silvery innards where decades of workers have laid their hands while using them.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Somehow, the youngest Skarsgård’s brother has figured out how to be skeletal and hulking at the same time.
    — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
  • Turkeys — often hulking specimens, hard to cook, rather bland — are not native to many countries around the world.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • One foot in front of the other, the hulking old man trudged up the ramp to the Pontchartrain Expressway.
    — Ted Jackson, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Just then, as if on cue, Green’s hulking figure appeared in Izzo’s doorway.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The watches on the wrists of celebrities this week ran the gamut, from dainty vintage beauties to hulking new releases.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026
  • At Crunch on West 23rd Street, there were hulking men spotted through the windows.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Jonah Lehrer basically tells you, yes YOU, to just hulk out and be done with it.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2011
  • Kyle Sinckler, a hulking forward, started at a London state school that didn’t even have a rugby team.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • For decades the Bush family has been friends with hulking movie star turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Tangles of power lines and the carcasses of hulking oak trees that had fallen Friday night cluttered the town’s narrow streets.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The hulking monument to modernism is considered to be the first skyscraper in Dubai and marked a turning point in the city’s standing on the world stage.
    — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The idea is that in a war with China, America’s hulking aircraft carriers might be pushed far out to sea by the threat of missiles.
    — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Ghani supervised one Tuesday evening as a crane lifted one of the slabs, known as T-walls, that had long hulked over a road in downtown Baghdad.
    — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Seven years ago this half-mile stretch of buzzy Karaköy was populated mostly by fishermen and chestnut roasters; now hulking cruise ships abound.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2024
  • However, the Air Force also invented the Cart Start method in case the hulking bombers needed to get on the move.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, hulking lizards such as Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the Earth, while immense flying reptiles known as pterosaurs held dominion over the skies.
    — Mark Witton, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
  • To some, the six-story Hurley building is a hulking reminder of the urban renewal that swept away entire blocks of the city decades ago; bring on the bulldozers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Prison in Zhytomyr, a hulking brick building built during the reign of Russia’s last czar, has cable TV.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In the north, ThyssenKrupp’s Bruckhausen steel plant is still hanging on, with its hulking towers and sprawl of aging pipes -- big enough to walk through -- looming over the streetscape.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018

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