protuberant

Example Sentences

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The bumps push out candy-striped and aproned gowns; they are exaggerated by belted waists, and one particularly protuberant tummy doubles as a perch for a parakeet.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

And Cyrano is still in love with Roxane, though he never risks saying so because of that protuberant proboscis.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

They’re absolute eye candy, the kind of bud that does it for the ’Gram — great pops of frilly color, their protuberant, pollen-gilded anthers sticking out like … well, exactly what they are.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

He has a long face and long, wavy brown hair parted at the crest; his chin is protuberant and cratered by a dimple the size of Chicxulub.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and derisive, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you.

From "1984" by George Orwell