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[huhlk] / hʌlk /


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But Mr. Lithgow’s performance is infused with a sneaky playfulness evoking the “broken boy,” as Jessie puts it, still cavorting in the hulk of an elderly man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The makeshift Philippine naval base there is built up around the grounded, rusting hulk of the World War II-era ship, the Sierra Madre.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The Washington State offensive lineman, a 6-foot-7 hulk of a man, wanted his teammates to stop thinking — to kill hesitation.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Her hero-training journey is truncated because she takes to being the hulk much easier than did her cousin Bruce Banner, the original Hulk.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2023

The sound came again, thin and keening, from the black hulk of the body on the far right.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

The remains of a sunken Hungarian cargo ship resurfaced in Croatia, while the hulks of a German river flotilla was seen in Serbia.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

In Josephson’s phrase he “roved through the West eyeing the ruined hulks of transcontinental railroads,” scooping up the “rich debris.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Because the park was damaged and is surrounded by the hulks of once-beloved homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

Many of the once sleek beachfront hotels in Acapulco looked like toothless, shattered hulks a day after the Category 5 storm blew out hundreds - and possibly thousands - of windows.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

He would tease her by telling her just how, with her and her apples gone, all the gods were frail and withered—drooling, palsied, quivering hulks, slow of thought and crippled in mind and body.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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