How to Use bulging in a Sentence

bulging

adjective
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  • At last, the tumor—yellow-red and bulging—was at the center of the console screen.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Just what a frothy stock market needed: a bulging slate of tech IPOs, breaking a lengthy drought.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Looking back at the old meal plans, fastened to a bulging clipboard, is one long nostalgic stroll.
    — Stephanie Ganz, Bon Appétit, 19 June 2019
  • At this point there are a multitude of procedures that will improve the bulging areas of your body.
    — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The thin air seems to age me 30 years, while the strong solar rays sap my energy and suck all humidity from my bulging eyes.
    — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • Dickerson, who missed last season due to a bulging disc that required surgery, had hoped rest and rehab would be enough.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Gervais' beaked whales have a slightly bulging forehead and a pronounced, narrow beak.
    — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Alaska’s pervasive and persistent warmth is the result of a bulging ridge in the jet stream that has allowed mild air from the Pacific Ocean to flood the state.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Some had bulging oversize bags, others nothing more than a shopping bag or backpack.
    — Ian Austen and Dan Levin, New York Times, 5 May 2016
  • Collecting every bit of data makes for a bulging warehouse.
    — Christian Ofori-Boateng, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • Humans are preprogrammed to want to nurture anything with baby-like features—namely, a big bulging forehead, large, low-set eyes and round cheeks.
    — Lucy Cooke, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Every half hour, the workers stationed on what is essentially a floating houseboat pull in another bulging catch with the dai.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The bulging veins were classic Cone, a Hulk-like feature on an otherwise ordinary looking pitcher.
    — Matt Martell, SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • Fisher isn’t concerned with trying to keep everyone happy, a task next to impossible anyway in the era of the bulging transfer portal.
    — Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The disease – which Elliott was diagnosed with in 2008 – first began affecting her motor skills, followed by a string of symptoms: dizzy spells, lumps in her throat, mood swings, hair loss, a fast heart rate and bulging eyes.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2018
  • This season's league title was the 10th of Buffon's career, adding to a bulging trophy cabinet that contains just about every honour in football.
    — chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • Hayes’ former boyfriend, Jimmy Jackson, then 72, was seen in surveillance video leaving Hayes’ apartment with a bulging suitcase and dragging it through the lobby to a dumpster outside.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2021
  • The bulging front fenders rise to meet the low hood; high windowsills and lightly contoured exterior door panels accentuate the car’s length while disguising its height.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The 47-year-old achieved this without the bulging financial muscle of his direct competition - his side is dwarfed significantly by the money at the disposal of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
    — SI.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Lozada introduced a young woman standing nearby—Milena, his compañera—and pointed to her bulging stomach.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Earth’s magnetic field, also called the magnetosphere, is generated by currents of molten iron in the planet’s interior and extends outward from the poles in great bulging arcs.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Goodwill (not Goodell) can expect a bulging bag of three Chargers shirts, two hats, two throwback jerseys, one hoodie, one pair of sweats, a travel mug, a dog collar and a myriad of memorabilia.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2017
  • Yet by every account, the philosopher was exceptionally ugly, his mien marred by monstrous bulging eyes, in a society that prized manly beauty as a virtue partaking of the divine.
    — Jamie James, WSJ, 17 May 2019
  • Its bulging front fenders, countless aero bits, and distracting (yet functional) wing are made more obviously offensive by our hatchback's brilliant Boost Blue hue.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 May 2020
  • For others, symptoms can include a bulging midriff, breast pain and cysts, moodiness, changes in appetite, energy, and concentration level—and major sleep disturbances.
    — Time, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The convention center's architecture, full of bulging, rectangular concrete blocks, becomes a perilous series of leaps for Ellie.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 June 2020
  • Two years ago, a University of Illinois researcher, inspired by the slashing, dashing underwater warrior, mimicked its bulging eyes to create a camera able to record polarized light and better detect some cancers.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
  • After Mayboroda’s talk, the two started speculating whether the irregular bulging patterns in Mayboroda’s plates might be related to the way Filoche’s vibrations localized in some places and disappeared in others.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Now, with a bulging ventilator stack, Cuomo has directed the National Guard to remove the unused, life-saving machines from medical facilities and reallocate or return them to other states.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2020

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