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At an estimated cost of $3.8 billion, it will replace the rusting, abandoned hulk that sits at the east end of East Capitol Street, fronting the Anacostia River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

The makeshift Philippine naval base there is built up around the grounded, rusting hulk of the World War II-era ship, the Sierra Madre.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The Washington State offensive lineman, a 6-foot-7 hulk of a man, wanted his teammates to stop thinking — to kill hesitation.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Sitting rather incongruously in this bucolic scene is the vast concrete hulk of the Bataan nuclear power plant.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023

Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The remains of a sunken Hungarian cargo ship resurfaced in Croatia, while the hulks of a German river flotilla was seen in Serbia.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

In Josephson’s phrase he “roved through the West eyeing the ruined hulks of transcontinental railroads,” scooping up the “rich debris.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

At the chaotic ape colony on the beach, rusting hulks of massive ships loom out of blue waters, contrasting with red sails and white sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Many of the once sleek beachfront hotels in Acapulco looked like toothless, shattered hulks a day after the Category 5 storm blew out hundreds — and possibly thousands — of windows.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Electricity outlined the black hulks against day-bright sky; then everything disappeared into blackness.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi