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sticking out

adjective as in projecting

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She is smiling, a pink-striped hat on her head and a mini rainbow lollipop sticking out of her mouth.

There she lay until 2003, when a member of the public walking the beach noticed a bone sticking out of the sand.

Have arrows and swords sticking out of chests and abdomens at various angles.

Cyrus, for example, finally explains why, for the love of Courtney Love, she keeps sticking out her tongue.

Any white person who has traveled in rural Asia or Africa can attest to the discomfort of sticking out as the only caucasian.

It was no worm that Mrs. Robin had found, but Grandfather Mole's hairless tail sticking out of the ground.

He made me play it again perfectly legato, and with no one note "sticking out" more than another.

A piece of iron sticking out from the cross-head carried the plug-rod for working the gear-handles.

Halfway down the hill one of her skis must have struck somethingperhaps the stub of a bush sticking out of the snow.

Near the path were the top branches of a willow tree, sticking out above the snow.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sticking out, such as: noticeable, bulging, busy, forward, impertinent, and importunate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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