protrude
Example Sentences
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Boxes labelled with western logos like New Balance and Clarks protrude from this shop's packed shelves.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
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
His chin is pitched forward, his ears protrude and his brow is furrowed over glinting black eyes.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 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
At the word hungry a greenish light was kindled in Gollum’s pale eyes, and they seemed to protrude further than ever from his thin sickly face.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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