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How to use hulk in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Hulk means a large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre. Example: “They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.”

Examples of hulk by meaning

nounA non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as...

  • They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...

nounA large structure with a dominating presence.

  • The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet.2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine...

verbTo reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

  • No further additions were made to this group, and by 1729 the Rank was extinct (the last to be struck was the Ludlow, which had been hulked in 1719).2017, Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786, Seaforth Publsihing, →ISBN, page 203

verbTo move (a large, hulking body).

  • This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China.1968, Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove - Warren G. Harding in His Times, →ISBN
  • A man with four children crowding like saplings around him whistles to wake up the elephant seal who has hulked his impossible body onto the beach.1994, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other Poems, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 16
  • Hadrian hulked his mass over the spot where the children had disappeared.2017, N.D.Rabin, Hidden Magic: Fear of the Smallest Wizard, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

verbTo be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

  • After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went.1992, Richard Condon, The Venerable Bead, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 163
  • As the occupants stepped out, he hulked at them menacingly and asked them the traditional question.2006, Angus Dunn, Writing in the Sand, Luath Press Ltd, →ISBN
  • The remains of an old bar hulked in the center of the room.2008, J. D. Robb, Three in Death, Penguin, →ISBN

verbOf a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.

  • After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work.1934, Gösta Larsson, Our Daily Bread: A Novel
  • Instead he hulked his way towards Kruger again as the crowd ooohd and aaahd at the prowess.2008, Craig Conte, Millennial Reign, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 301

More sentences with hulk

  • We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym.2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry bemuscled
  • He had forgotten to tell Willie and Ara to detrap the hulk of the turtle boat.1970, Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream. From the entry detrap
  • The last to feel her as a living vessel before she became a steel hulk and was razor bladed.2019, Simon Quail, Gangway: A Life at Sea, page ii. From the entry razor blade
  • You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.2017 January 9, Molly Hurford, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2017. From the entry bulk up
  • Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino, retrieved 19 Jun 2017. From the entry tank
  • Valencia—when she gets mad—she, like, hulks out.2015 October 26, Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, I Hope Josh Comes to My Party! (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), season 1, episode 3, spoken by…. From the entry hulk out
  • It looked like a typical gyppo logging camp boat, a sad-looking thirty-two-foot hulk on its last stop before the boneyard.2015, Peter A. Robson, Raincoast Chronicles 23. From the entry narrow-gutted
  • One of my best friends has hulked out his chest, triceps and shoulders exclusively with weighted push ups at my recommendation.2012 January 10, Joshua Naterman, “Need Advice on Building Rounder Chest without Weights?”, in GymnasticBodies Forums. From the entry hulk out
  • At the head of the fiord, and along its sides, can still be seen the hulks of German destroyers and submarines.1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384. From the entry fiord
  • William Moss hulked spraddlelegged on the hillside, one leg braced higher than the other on the steep part of the slope below the rim.1998, Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat. From the entry spraddlelegged
  • 'That Margarine is a funksome one.' And, without further ado, the great hulk of a troll swung Neville on to his shoulders and started galumphing off downhill.2012, Steven Butler, Wrong Pong: Troll's Treasure. From the entry funksome
  • She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
  • The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.1960 May, K. A. Murray, “Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire”, in Railway Magazine, page 302. From the entry jetty

Meaning of hulk

  1. noun A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
  2. noun A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
  3. noun A large structure with a dominating presence.

Full definition of hulk

Questions about hulk in a sentence

How do you use hulk in a sentence?
Hulk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.”
What is a short sentence with hulk?
“Valencia—when she gets mad—she, like, hulks out.”
What does hulk mean?
Hulk means a large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

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