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
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 while speaking.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
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
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