protrusive
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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
But the evolution of a free hand made it possible to dispense with protrusive lips and gripping teeth.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
It is the red bandana upon which Britannia blows her protrusive bugle.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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