protrusive

Example Sentences

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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

Radical increase of the lips’ protrusive range requires systematic exercise of the maxillary fasciae, such as the depressor septi, orbicularis oris, depressor anguli oris, depressor labii inferioris, and the buccinator, circumoral, and risorius groups.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011

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

His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge—equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts.

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony