hulky
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hulky
Example Sentences
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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 “big, hulky guys” watching a million-dollar necklace would hover over her during filming.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 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
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
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