protruding
Example Sentences
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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
There’s colored contacts and facial prosthetics, a protruding belly and at least an hour of makeup.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
As a result, it remains a ruin—a mostly standing skeleton with steel rebar protruding from mangled concrete walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
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
His face was broader and flatter, with sunken eyes and tusks the size of bananas protruding from his mouth.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
