What's the difference between hulk and sulk?

Hulk


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
  • (n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.
  • (n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.
  • (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
  • (2) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (3) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
  • (4) It takes the pragmatism to abort a character that isn't working: Mark Ruffalo was the third attempt at getting The Hulk right.
  • (5) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
  • (6) Marvel boss Kevin Feige said in 2012 that the comic books Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were both possible sources for new solo Hulk storylines, but admitted that each was problematic.
  • (7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
  • (8) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (9) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
  • (10) A minute earlier Hulk was racing through 30 yards out and attempted to toe poke it high up and over Casillas who was haring out to sweep up but couldn't direct it so it ended up going more vertically than horizontally.
  • (11) Lyon began to dominate but Hulk scored a stunning goal in the 56th minute to put the hosts back in front.
  • (12) The likes of Alex Teixeira, Jackson Martínez and Ramires have already moved to Super League clubs, while the Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk is also reportedly on the verge of a big-money deal to join Shanghai SIPG – a club managed by another former England manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
  • (13) These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday .
  • (14) Germany clear, the ball comes back to David Luiz and he surges forward before threading the ball up the inside left towards Hulk again.
  • (15) The overall impression is of an unplanned free-for-all, a steroidal frenzy of building tall, with little attention to individual design quality, or the cumulative effect that these scattered hulks might have on the city.
  • (16) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
  • (17) Regardless of the legality of what Gawker did when deciding to post a tape of Hulk Hogan sleeping with his former best friend’s then-wife, it’s really tough to stand up for the first amendment when the hill you’re going to die on is made of questionable newsworthiness and dick jokes.
  • (18) The latter tactic can work (Ubisoft, Rockstar), but it can also mean that games lose any sort of identity as great hulking middle management layers take a deathly grip on creative decisions.
  • (19) Ten minutes into the second half, Marcelo lifted a long, diagonal pass over the Chile defence and Hulk controlled the ball at the corner of his chest and shoulder, then bundled it into the goal.
  • (20) She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.” Harder’s not-quite-four-year-old Beverly Hills firm, Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, is perhaps best known for representing Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gawker Media , which was sold at auction to media company Univision earlier in August.

Sulk


Definition:

  • (n.) A furrow.
  • (v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (2) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
  • (3) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
  • (4) The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk.
  • (5) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
  • (6) Her cat is in a sulk, she says, because he hasn't been getting enough attention because of all the fuss.
  • (7) There was no national outrage over Sulk’s murder, nor over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Laramie girl, Christin Lamb, that summer.
  • (8) He loves the club and the team and he is an incredible professional, so I don’t think you would ever expect him to sulk,” Martínez said.
  • (9) Certainly, better act to change your destiny than do what Edward Heath did after being beaten in the Conservative leadership election of 1975 until his death 30 years later: sulk.
  • (10) The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of "a great political sulk", after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.
  • (11) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
  • (12) But then what is known in Whitehall as the "Lansley sulk" over his 18-month opposition to the policy of setting a minimum price for alcohol meant he was never going to stand up in parliament to defend it.
  • (13) Instead, the Australian electorate is watching aghast as Labor's two major political stars plot and sulk and tear each other apart in public – and fight to the death in a secret party ballot.
  • (14) People try masking this emotion or express it in specific ways nonverbally, such as sulking or not eating.
  • (15) Now there were three people sulking in the House, though Gove looked slightly more cheerful.
  • (16) No sulking or feeling sorry for themselves after such an unfortunate goal; just a quiet determination to get an equalizer.
  • (17) They're also close to wrapping up deals for Sevilla's Alvaro Negredo and Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic and could battle Chelsea for the signing of PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who's in a sulk about the arrival of Edinson Cavani.
  • (18) When he came to see the computer tortoises in 1951 – they responded to light and scuttled back home when the bulb was switched on in their hutches – he also managed to break a game playing computer by recognising the work of a protege and cracking the algorithm on the spot: the computer flashed both "you've won" and "you've lost" messages at him, and then shut itself down in a sulk.
  • (19) Lots of Blairites left in a sulk because David Miliband wasn’t leader and it is generally the case that those that then joined are sympathetic to the leader,” said the source.
  • (20) The point is, I didn’t make the cut, and you know, you kind of think, fine, I understand Nick’s got to make tough choices, and there’s no point sulking.” So he decided to run for party president instead.