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• v  appear very large or occupy a commanding position
• s  of great size and bulk
  a hulking figure of a man
  three hulking battleships

• But Little Rock's city fathers knew better than write Faubus anything, calmly put their faith in Police Chief Gene Smith, a hulking (6 ft.
• But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post.
• For centuries, the city's hulking official buildings served as reminders of the awesome power of the imperial state.

• loom
• tower
• predominate
• hulk
• hulky

News & Articles

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• Made Here: Brooklyn's Navy Yard is Home to a Manufacturing Revival
  The Brooklyn Navy Yard, once a hulking emblem of American industrial might, is showing the way to a revival of urban manufacturing.
  June 20, 2013 - Architectural Record
• Goodwill no longer accepting older model TVs
  Starting in August, Goodwill stores in Connecticut will longer accept your old hulking television sets.
  June 20, 2013 - Eyewitness News 3 Hartford
• Rugby-Lions winger North cleared for first test
  June 19 (Reuters) - Hulking Welsh winger George North has been declared fit for the British and Irish Lions' first test against Australia, providing a welcome boost for the tourists after Tuesday's shock loss to the ACT Brumbies. North, who was nursing a hamstring strain, passed a fitness test on Wednesday to make himself available for the first test at the Suncorp Stadium. "I've never seen him ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Ron Underwood in San Francisco Chronicle
  He was one scary, intimidating, big hulking guy with a huge heart,said Ron Underwood, who directed Palance in "City Slickers" and in the actor's last role, as a man celebrating his 100th birthday in the 2004 TV movie "Back When We Were Grownups."
• Barry Morse in Los Angeles Times
  Elderly ladies bashed me across the head with their handbags, or some hulking great man would come up to me in a bar and say: 'Don't you understand? The guy's innocent!' It was an enormous compliment - and quite dangerous,Morse told the...
• Jorge Cauz in New Yorker
  Later, Jorge Cauz, Britannica's president, told me in an e-mail that if Wikipedia continued without some kind of editorial oversight it would "decline into a hulking mediocre mass of uneven, unreliable, and, many times, unreadable articles."