Example Sentences

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Only last Christmas, the German armies in their last great lunge had bulged through the Allied lines in Belgium, and it looked as if they could not be halted short of Antwerp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since the 1942 victory at Midway, Washington desks had bulged with reconversion plans.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one piece of paper her account had bulged like a cow about to freshen.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Harry was thinking of the way Crouch’s eyes had bulged as he’d looked down at his disobedient house-elf back in the wood at the Quidditch World Cup.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

The side of the mountain around Goat Rocks had bulged out.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone