stuck out
Example Sentences
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The tell was Henry’s nose, which stuck out the most on coin faces and lost its silver first, earning the king the nickname Old Coppernose.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
A Greenlandic flag stuck out of his backpack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
In both those new photos and earlier tranches, one persistent, nagging detail stuck out to me.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
Sandisk, with a market capitalization of about $33 billion as of Monday, had stuck out in the small-cap index for being much bigger in terms of market value than the others.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
A worksheet rested in my chair—thanks, Harper, for not even trying to get it on the desk—and a folded sheet of paper stuck out of my backpack, a paper I hadn’t put there.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
