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protrusive

[proh-troo-siv, pruh-] / proʊˈtru sɪv, prə- /






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She interpreted the virus’s protrusive spikes with tufts of red tissue paper left over from Christmas, and filled up the corona’s hollow with sparkly pompoms and unshelled nuts.

From New York Times May 4, 2020

The lips by this time were markedly large and protrusive; part of his daily discipline was tedious button-and-string exercises designed to promote hypertrophy of the orbicularis muscles.

From The New Yorker Feb. 28, 2011

Havelock rather disliked her protrusive blue eyes, but he could not resist her New-Woman camaraderie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clear blue, intelligent eyes, eyebrows that he arches amazingly, large, protrusive, rather loose mouth, a face of most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about—eyebrows, eyes, mouth and all—in a very singular manner when speaking.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Her eyes round, protrusive, but loving withal, are living burning garnets—garnets that speak.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables




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