protuberance

Example Sentences

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After friends and family suggested the protuberance might be a contender for the Guinness World Records, the couple submitted an application for “the world’s heaviest potato,” sat back and waited.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

This so-called larchrymal saber is a bony protuberance just under their eye.

From National Geographic • May 5, 2018

Consisting of four different species in Spain, horseshoe bats may be distinguished from other bats by the horseshoe shape of their leaf-like nose protuberance.

From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2017

Out of nowhere, it seems, there’s a painful protuberance at the lower end of the breastbone or ­sternum.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

She thought she could see the white protuberance of bone.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan