hulky

Example Sentences

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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

The deli also makes what Jonah dubs his own version of a Toronto-style bagel, that’s a cross between a smaller Toronto bagel and a hulky, chewy New York-style bagel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

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