protruded
Example Sentences
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Shopping carts and car parts protruded from the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
Even more impressive was the fact that Mount Washington, by some accounts, protruded into the stratosphere — the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023
A long, thick tube protruded from Vicha’s head.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
Up and down more stairs, and now they were in a long, long room, made of glass, that protruded, needlelike, out over the leafless black-and-white countryside hundreds of feet below them.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
