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hulky

[huhl-kee] / ˈhʌl ki /


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Smooth bench surfaces sit atop hulky rounded bases, and smaller tactile sculptures result from Skelly’s reductive process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The Flyers, Raymond says, are the personification of hockey itself: “plodding and big and hulky and weird.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

Instead, he walked on to the track team as an incongruous, hulky sprinter.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2019

He found Nenad Zimonjić, a hulky Serb four years his junior who had been having a good deal of success in mixed doubles.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2016

It’s as if she’s stepped down off the wall, the walls: the same round raw potato face, the hulky big-boned frame, the glittering spectacles and hairpin crown.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Even so, after the trailer was released, plenty of commenters were angry at Marvel for not making her hulkier.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

Nearby, St. Balmain has a doughnut that is hulkier still, evoking a Parker House roll, browned on the outside and pale within.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2014


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