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Meanings of hulky in английском

Of great size and bulk.

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Examples for "hulking"
1
Meanwhile, by the river, there were familiar hulking forms... Not quite human.
The Long Earth
2
He's burly and he's hulking; he comes right up to your shins.
The Guardian
3
The hulking figure stepped aside so that Oscar could enter the house.
The hunchback assignments
4
The Breffan charged, a hulking multiarmed form, one hand snagging Serri's arm.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
5
Soon he's shipwrecked, a hulking figure taken prisoner by the tiny Lilliputians.
The Irish Times
Usage of hulky in английском
1
A history of Luzon from his pen is a hulky volume full of facts.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
2
Hardy makes something hulky and inhuman of the older brother.
The Irish Times
3
Ben was dark and short and hulky, with his head jammed down between his shoulders.
Ma Pettengill
4
Only I want to go first and have a round with that hulky fellow who turned to challenge me.
Middlemarch
5
Once a great, hulky colored boy, who was the torment of the neighborhood, treated me roughly while I was playing on the street.
The Promised Land
6
Slow, deliberate, thick-skinned, powerful, hulky, ruminating, fragrant-breathed, when he came to town the spirit and suggestion of all Georgics and Bucolics came with him.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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Hulky through the time