protuberant
Example Sentences
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The bumps push out candy-striped and aproned gowns; they are exaggerated by belted waists, and one particularly protuberant tummy doubles as a perch for a parakeet.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
And Cyrano is still in love with Roxane, though he never risks saying so because of that protuberant proboscis.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022
They’re absolute eye candy, the kind of bud that does it for the ’Gram — great pops of frilly color, their protuberant, pollen-gilded anthers sticking out like … well, exactly what they are.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022
He has a long face and long, wavy brown hair parted at the crest; his chin is protuberant and cratered by a dimple the size of Chicxulub.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Mr. Curtain’s reflective glasses and protuberant nose eased toward Sticky’s face like a snake testing the air.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
