Example Sentences

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Her prose has an apt amount of literary embellishment: Jaguars are “light-footed dancers” and a snake bulges “like Saint-Exupéry’s hat.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Still, a buildup bulges outside of the golf course, as security holds fans at the entrance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

She has keratoconus - a condition where the cornea thins and bulges, causing distorted and blurred vision.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

If plasma bulges out and touches the walls of the reactor, for example, it can erode the walls over time.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

They couldn’t see any of the cracks or bulges that Dr. Morales had told them about.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis