BULGE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for BULGE, such as:

1. The gun made a bulge under his jacket.
2. His unbuttoned coat bulged in the wind.
3. He stared at me for a moment with his mild, bulging eyes.
4. He looked at her with his eyes bulging, and yellow coming into the whites.
5. She noted how shrunken were the thighs that once bulged with saddle muscles.

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 Meanings and Examples of BULGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bulge
 v.  cause to curve outward; swell up; stick out; protrude
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  "Dear God," she whispered, pulling out a bulging wallet, wrapped about with a rag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  The back door swung open and India entered, followed by old Dr. Dean, his long white hair tumbled, his worn leather bag bulging under his cape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  Luke Dawson, lender of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, with bulging eyes in a milky face.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Some of these were bulging dangerously, yet men worked before them, wearing blue glasses when they opened and shut the doors.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
5  Stepan Arkadyevitch went upstairs with his pocket bulging with notes, which the merchant had paid him for three months in advance.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
6  He looked at her with his eyes bulging, and yellow coming into the whites.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  He stared at me for a moment with his mild, bulging eyes.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  recognised the dark, slightly bulging eyes - stood in the hallway in a long white apron, holding a candle in her hand.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
9  She noted how shrunken were the thighs that once bulged with saddle muscles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Kennicott wore a brown canvas hunting-coat with vast pockets lining the inside, corduroy trousers which bulged at the wrinkles, peeled and scarred shoes, a scarecrow felt hat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  His head drooped, and a ridge of flesh scattered with pale small bristles bulged out under his chin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  His unbuttoned coat bulged in the wind.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  In his coat pockets he carried squares of Vienna chocolate for his guests while his trousers' pocket bulged with masses of silver and copper coins.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  While we were waiting he brought out the catapult which bulged from his inner pocket and explained some improvements which he had made in it.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
15  He had a hanging face, dark wine-coloured, with fair eyebrows and moustache: his eyes bulged forward slightly and the whites of them were dirty.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
Example Sentence:
1  When the inserted balloon is filled with water, they bulge out in a variety of shapes.
2  The gun made a bulge under his jacket.
3  Since the controversial programme was broadcast, the BBC's mailbag has been bulging.
4  A ganglion cyst is a fluid-filled tumor that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath, and that bulges beneath the skin, forming a protuberance.