jutting piece

Example Sentences

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Though he will stick it out after making big threes, on Wednesday night the jutting piece of plastic indicated a heightened sense of concern.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

Once he steadied himself on a jutting piece of the rock as he supposed, when to his immense surprise—wh'r'r'r—it rose from under his hand, with a shrill cry of alarm, and fluttered wildly seaward.

From Michael's Crag by Allen, Grant

Grazing his head against a jutting piece of rock reminded him that the passage was growing very small, and it behoved him to stop.

From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge

Blind with terror, shaking in agony, Zulannah fumbled helplessly for the special brick; it lay, she knew, in the third row and had as mark a jutting piece of mortar in the middle.

From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan

“The third time I essayed the feat, the end of the whip caught on a jutting piece of ice, and I was ‘snatched’ off the sledge in grand style, nearly wrecking it in my exit.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by Elverson, James