stick out

Example Sentences

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Instead, she ruffles Dad’s graying hair and sticks out her tongue like they didn’t just spend eighteen years hating each other.

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There was a flat metallic arrow sticking out of the invisible wall.

From Literature

Then, when I’d go and put my cheek against the big rock that sticks out of the side of the mountain and feel its warmth run into my body, I’d listen hard for its voice.

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“Here it is!” he cried, as he spotted a metal leg sticking out from under a small tree.

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Only his nose and his closed eyes were sticking out of the blanket, and he could feel the cold wind on those parts of him.

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