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protruding

[ UK /pɹətɹˈuːdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈtɹudɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
    the jutting limb of a tree
    his protruding ribs
    massive projected buttresses
    a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

How To Use protruding In A Sentence

  • Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
  • It was only in hospital that he discovered bone protruding through his skin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even from where I was standing I could see the jugular in her neck protruding, like a snake rising from somewhere inside her chest.
  • Yes | No | Report from steve182 wrote 22 hours 48 min ago looks like a skinny horsetail protruding from the center of the chest. QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
  • Firstly the village can be found on the east side of a great headland protruding out of Loch Carron, and therefore enjoys a position that protects it from sea gales.
  • At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
  • He underwent surgeries to reset his right knee and remove a protruding bone. Christianity Today
  • He was standing in the doorway, wearing a frown and a soiled T-shirt, his large belly protruding over his pants, held up by a pair of suspenders.
  • In some instances the protruding parts assume large proportions, but always, because of the relationship between the fibular tarsal bone (calcaneum) and the tendon sheath, the larger protrusion is situated mesially. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.
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