Example Sentences

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But after noticing that Molly's fontanelle - the soft spot on the top of her head - was bulging when she was 12 weeks, a doctor in A&E diagnosed a large brain tumour.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

His foot had turned the wrong color and a large vein on the inside of his leg was bulging and visible just under his skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

One morning in May 2020, Kristyn Booth, an educator who then lived in Austin, Texas, discovered that her dog’s eye, which had been injured nearly a decade prior, was bulging and red.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

“A weekly, and it was bulging with advertising. They literally, I think, didn’t have enough editorial content to put between the ads.”

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2021

The area around Goat Rocks was bulging at an unbelievable rate.

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