Thesaurus / jutting
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There is a certain kind of bird that makes its nest high up on the sides of steep cliffs jutting out over the waters of the ocean.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEOverhanging the pass was a huge boulder, balanced precariously on the edge of the jutting cliff.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANKThey were now in view of a bare spur or ridge jutting out along the lake from the lofty mountains behind.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONOver the cell were jutting rocks, which threw down as the sun was over them, strange shadows, making the most mysterious letters.
PAPERS FROM OVERLOOK-HOUSECASPER ALMOREBelow them, jutting out from the precipitous northern bank, was a low bar of rock over which the river did not sweep.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTFrom all the jutting points swung the thin fluted strips of varech, which sailors use as their barometers.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOGrazing his head against a jutting piece of rock reminded him that the passage was growing very small, and it behoved him to stop.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGAt last he found a jutting point of rock near the cliff edge, and standing above the level.
PRAIRIE SMOKE (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)MELVIN RANDOLPH GILMOREScanners swept smoothly over the wilderness of stone jutting up between the ship and the mine.
FELINE REDROBERT SAMPSONThe rocky wall under which the tent was raised proved to be three hundred feet high, jutting out from beneath the slopes of ice.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONWORDS RELATED TO JUTTING
- arresting
- beetling
- bulging
- easily seen
- embossed
- extended
- extrusive
- eye-catching
- flashy
- hanging out
- hilly
- in the foreground
- jutting
- marked
- noticeable
- obtrusive
- obvious
- outstanding
- projecting
- pronounced
- protruding
- protrusive
- protuberant
- raised
- relieved
- remarkable
- rough
- rugged
- salient
- shooting out
- signal
- standing out
- striking
- to the fore
- unmistakable
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