A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.
a heavy, hulking stone blocked the way
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The riffs of a country band trickled from a packed club and into the parking lot, a rock’s throw from Alabama’s hulking college football stadium.—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026 The movie’s vision is one of arrangements and connections, stylistic and textural clashes of hulking buildings, stark forms seen in distant vistas, sublime coincidences of collective energy thrumming from generation to generation in the simultaneity of the physical city’s chronological strata.—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026 Arnold Development Group is also working on the large-scale redevelopment of the former Hardesty Federal Complex in the Historic Northeast area, which promises to transform a hulking industrial site with hundreds of new apartments, on-site amenities for residents and a new public market.—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026 City and state leaders cast Meta’s $50 million donation to demolish and abate three hulking downtown buildings as a turning point for Sacramento’s urban center.—Sacbee.com, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hulking