protrude

A blackened mattress, a twisted bicycle, a crushed sofa and toys protrude between two stacked concrete slabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

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

A tridimensional T. rex protrudes from Iñaki Godoy’s head while he holds a small plush toy of Monkey D. Luffy, the character who changed his life forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

A keel is a large, fin-like part of the boat that protrudes from its base.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

The x-ray spectrometer protrudes over the rover’s front and rotates by 90 degrees to study the material below it.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023

A terrifying symbol of Mayon’s deadly fury is the belfry of a 16th-century Franciscan stone church which protrudes from the ground.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

I look for the break in the pattern, the nail that protrudes.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

In the distance, the bare skeletons of trees that were drowned a century ago protruded from the lake bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

While modern dolphins are armed with a snoutful of cone-shaped teeth perfectly calibrated to snap up fish, this creature possessed several large teeth that protruded out of the end of its snout.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

The kindergarten playground, weathered from decades of brutal winters, had turned hazardous; at times, sharp screws protruded from some of the equipment, and kids routinely got splinters from the wooden crossbeams.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2023

As Albies remembered the events of the day before, two legs in white leggings, high socks and flip-flops protruded from beneath the sweatshirts and jerseys hanging in the locker next to him.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2022

Mother protruded her lower lip, sagged her shoulders and let her hands hang down to her knees.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

In England, the exhaust hoses of portable air conditioners protruding from windows are an increasingly common sight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Their latest experiments focus on a new particle design that includes additional protruding "legs."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

If the fish-trap hypothesis is the right one, then the lines of protruding monoliths would have also supported a "net" made of sticks and branches to catch fish as the tide retreated.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

A woman not five feet tall, with a grotesque, protruding stomach, was wheeling an old black baby carriage down the street.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath