hulking
pronunciation
How to pronounce hulking in British English:
UK [ˈhʌlkɪŋ]
How to pronounce hulking in American English:
US [ˈhʌlkɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- of great size and bulk
Word Origin
- hulking (adj.)
- "big, clumsy," 1690s (through 18c. usually with fellow), from hulk (n.).
Example
- 1. In the middle of a scrubby business park on the outskirts of dublin , a hulking grey building has recently sprung up .
- 2. Last year , I traveled around parts of afghanistan 's helmand province on marine corps mtvrs ; the hulking trucks proved surprisingly capable of off-road driving .
- 3. But a few hundred feet behind the sales hall some of the " almost completed " buildings look like neglected , hulking shells .
- 4. The building - a hulking mass of granite whose black silhouette is visible for miles amid the yellow midwestern plains - is an unlikely command centre for an entrepreneur who has striven to stay out of the spotlight for four decades .
- 5. I hunched over the teletype in the terminal room , a hulking console that shook each time its typewriter head whammed leftward to begin a new line .