Examples of bull neck in a Sentence
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These historical injuries, combined with Crean’s big belly and bull neck, suggested vigor and capability.
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Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
In that case, the uncompromising presentation of the man’s asymmetrical, wrinkled face and his bull neck reflect Etruscan influence as well as Greek.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
Goliath, with his massive shoulders and bull neck, could easily be taken for a gorilla at first glance.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
In that case, the uncompromising presentation of the man’s asymmetrical, wrinkled face and his bull neck reflect Etruscan influence as well as Greek.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
Goliath, with his massive shoulders and bull neck, could easily be taken for a gorilla at first glance.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
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First Known Use
1697, in the meaning defined above
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