protrude

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His face in careful concentration, the Major-General from Ukraine's Civil Protection Service clings tightly to a precious bundle, wrapped for protection in his coat - and out of which two small pink shoes protrude.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Their backs are also mirrored, and hefty steel counterweights are holding up the semicircular tubes that protrude out front.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

If there is a weak spot between the abdominal muscles, internal organs might start to protrude through the gap, causing a hernia.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

That light initiates the release of highly reactive free radicals that hopscotch across various molecular groups, essentially propagating chains that protrude both up from the silicone itself and across the emerging structure, stabilizing it.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

Geak is so thin that her cheekbones protrude out of her face.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung