How To Use Protruding In A Sentence
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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
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It was only in hospital that he discovered bone protruding through his skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even from where I was standing I could see the jugular in her neck protruding, like a snake rising from somewhere inside her chest.
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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.
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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.
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At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
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He underwent surgeries to reset his right knee and remove a protruding bone.
Christianity Today
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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.
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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
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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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She had darting, small brown eyes and the light seemed to pass with ease through the large ears protruding through her oily, lank hair…
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Many canopy trees have protruding crowns, and light availability at the surface of the canopy crust should also differ depending on the position relative to the apex of the crown.
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He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff face.
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By the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous body shape of the Gibson girl, with a protruding bust and derrière, and small waist.
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Alamirifica corona differs considerably from Echinobathra by not having protruding, very thick varices nor tabulate whorls.
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Walk across your floor in poorly maintained shoes with heeltaps, spike heels or with any sharp object protruding from your shoe.
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The periodical cicada has protruding red eyes and orange legs; adults have clear wings with orange veins.
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Vanessa, who sports a tiny horseshoe protruding from her nostrils, is applying to the adult division, too, having been kicked out of Belmont at age 18.
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Helena studies a deeply crimsoned rose, almost unnaturally so, and takes a long, wary look at the protruding thorns.
The Iron Maiden « A Fly in Amber
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The spacing between the protruding oxygen atoms is comparable to the spacing between certain of the hydroxyl groups in layers of magnesium hydroxide (brucite) or aluminum hydroxide (gibbsite).
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Protruding awkwardly above the much older buildings, the huge, prismlike shingled roof of the modern church overhangs a concrete patio bearing a seven-foot wooden cross.
American Grace
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He turned over a matt black and white that had been lying on the blotter in front of him, and pushed it towards her so that she got the full impact of the divided face, the kecked nose and slewed eye, the mouth askew showing long, sharp teeth protruding over his lip on the right side, in a kind of snarl.
Bottled Spider
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The woman held her palms up and smiled and the man had his arms out to her, his hands like hooks, and protruding point-outward from his breastbone was a crooked knife blade with a wetness on it.
More Than Human
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There are nine paired microtubules per axoneme, and they are interconnected by dynein molecules, protruding at regular intervals like the legs of a millipede.
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I had no bottom, no hips, just protruding bones.
Times, Sunday Times
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Normally male crickets call females by rubbing specialized protruding wing parts together, creating an effect similar to running a thumbnail down the teeth of a comb.
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He was already dropping the tanto and reaching for the katana hilt protruding from the scabbard on his back.
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I snapped the hard outer crust and observed a softer kernel consisting of unidentifiable mush with what looked like carrots and bean skins protruding from it.
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An abundance of shells of the helix tribe (Helix bulimus) was found on the top and sides of the hill; and a calcareous substance was observed protruding from the ground in every part, as noticed both by Vancouver and Flinders; * the former also found it on the bare sandy summit of Bald Head, and supposed it to be coral, a circumstance from which he inferred that the level of the ocean must have sunk.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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The alien's head was round and massive with bulblike structures protruding from its forehead, and it lacked anything even vaguely resembling a neck.
Addicts
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He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff face.
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As we ease in for the pick-up, I can see a tiny nub of blubber protruding from the end of the tip.
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I could see a few strands of root protruding out of the walls, and the place had an earthy smell to it.
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Banks of snow cut them off; snowshoes sank in air pockets -- holes made by protruding limbs of the short, gnarled trees of timber line, -- and through these the man fought in short, spasmodic lunges, breaking the way for the woman who came behind, never stopping except to gather strength for a fresh attack, never ceasing for obstacle or for danger.
The White Desert
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He is said to have a long face, sunken cheeks, a long protruding chin and a large hooked nose.
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They were smaller than the clamshells protruding from the mud.
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Although mammoths came much later than dinosaurs, I spotted a giant pair of ancient curved ivory tusks protruding from an isolated cliff.
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There is a button on a cable protruding from the bug, like a weather man might have on his slide projector.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have large, forward-set, movable eyes and an upward slanting mouth with a long protruding lower jaw that can be thrust out.
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The most noticeable change is to the famous seven-slot grille, now finished in polished chrome and incorporating a pair of fog lights while larger, protruding side sills provide a wider stance.
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Turkish eighteenth-century yataghans are fine examples of artistic decoration: their wavy blades have near the hilt embossed plates with protruding coral insets.
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This is not a weak imitation of traditional Southwest architecture, complete with fake vigas (protruding, rough-hewn beams).
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He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall.
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Do not damage your floors with shoes having heeltaps or sharp objects protruding from the sole such as rocks, nails, etc.
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Sun's Cradle was an old chain of rocky, copper alps, two of which towered over the rest like protruding inverted fangs.
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His jaw was thrust forward, his tongue protruding thoughtfully.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Protruding from the frozen earth, like dinosaur fossils in a matrix of rock, was a row of brown vertebrae, ancient and massive.
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The surface is mushy in places, icy and unyielding in others, and higher up there are rock chutes and faces protruding through the snowpack.
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It is one of the first shrubs to blossom, the staminate flowers hanging in slender, graceful yellowish-brown catkins, while the pistillate flowers are little points of purplish-red protruding from the buds.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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The periodical cicada has protruding red eyes and orange legs; adults have clear wings with orange veins.
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I also noticed another protruding bone called the ischium and I became very excited because I knew that this was not a fish but a tetrapod.
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Condole supports: Eligible adornment cannot appear beat of curved arris , protruding.
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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The protruding wing tip feathers seemed to confirm that they were eagles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boat was tied up to a small wooden platform built along the riverbank; she could see the mast protruding above a thicket of shrubs.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The fit between CypA and the binding edge of CsA is excellent and centres round the protruding side chain of MeVal-11.
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At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
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We pass on, pausing only a couple of times for me to bump my head on bits of metal protruding from various ladders, down into a room that looks like the snug of a golf-club bar.
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Burnell regarded the long face with its protruding eyes and the hank of hair hanging over the forehead.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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His arrows were at his side and a lute was strung over his back with its bent neck protruding over his shoulder.
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Load in rifle and extract to see if the primer is stil protruding.
Paper Versus Meat
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The float is a chemical resistant polypropylene casing with a firmly bonded electrical cable protruding.
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His arms are thrust backwards, and one can see his ribs protruding from his front.
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A major improvement was the use of a rechargeable battery inside the transmitter, which was recharged via two protruding wires.
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Protruding from his belly was an ugly purple scar.
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All serving is done on one side while the other is called the ‘receiving’ or ‘hazard’ side due to the protruding tambour.
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Viewers who climbed aluminum ladders to look into the spaces found segmented rounded forms, their stuffing of foam, fiberfill, wool and even pieces of hard plastic protruding here and there from surfaces of pale, wet-stretched hides.
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Many religious figures were seated on three balconies protruding from the temple walls.
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Pacifica was tall and plain, with protruding pale eyes and pockmarked skin.
TREASON KEEP
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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Protruding out the open sides were thick rolls of flesh that undulated like two well-fed seals.
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She gave him her hand, and he looked down at the small cut that had protruding from it a tiny shard of glass.
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Protruding from just above her hairline were the two small homs that Frankie remembered so well.
Greenmantle
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The Blackcrest Mountains were very tall here, and they stood like foreboding sentinels with their black peaks protruding like worn teeth.
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Protruding into the flow as they do, they would appear to increase the drag of the flipper as the whale swings into a turn.
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Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping moustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk.
The Blazed Trail
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His bony, spindly arms, protruding from the black cloth draping his shoulder, pushed the cart by means of a heavy cord; his arm muscles, if there were any, did not show any strain.
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I read a story on one of my pheasant hunters forums were two guys were just driving from one hunt to another just up the road and his prize lab was tossed from the back of the truck and broke a leg with the bone protruding threw the skin.
Does Your Dog Ride in the Front Seat?
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But: What was exceptional is that precisely a protruding 'massif' of a hog was dancing in the innersanctum sanctorumof the museum, a great and stupendously rotund animal was actually attempting to, or so it seemed to Wong, preform a pirouette in the manner of one of Degas 'whores.
Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)
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The sodden Finn was lolling over a double seat, a half-bottle of vodka protruding from his pocket.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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His tongue is protruding from the side of his mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
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To my horror I realised that the roof of the dog's mouth was against the thumbed side of my hand and the business end of the fang was protruding past the little finger side of my fist.
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He gestured Abasio to lead the way up the metal rungs protruding from the stone.
A Plague of Angels
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Furthermore, there were a number of buttons protruding from the top and sides of this device to provide functions such as "rewinding" and "fast-forwarding" (remember those?), which added even more bulk.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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With the little protruding nubs of the follower caught by your fingernails, its open-side 10-round magazine doesn't fight you when you insert the cartridges.
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It was rather small and it had been hung, quite casually, on a nail protruding from the wall.
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his protruding ribs
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Where other fish have scales, the sturgeon has an armour of bony plates with a few lines of these protruding scutes running down the length of the fish.
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He did a double-take as a man in uniform, knife handle protruding from his back, brushed past him.
Actor-Activist
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Each interconnect includes a feedthrough center pin protruding through an opening formed in the metal bottom wall, with isolation provided by a dielectric feedthrough insulator.
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He underwent surgeries to reset his right knee and remove a protruding bone.
Christianity Today
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During winter months and aestivation periods, mussels will burrow into the substrate until only the apertures are protruding.
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Head and legroom levels are class leading while the generous interior width and an absence of protruding wheel housings maximise space and provide very adequate hip and shoulder room for the driver and all passengers.
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There, it is a sharply bent elbow or a protruding knee that becomes a kind of fulcrum and guide for radiating and zigzagging patterns of wrinkles and folds in the draperies.
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The policeman saw a gun protruding from the man's pocket.
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A protruding disc or bulging disc will cause pain when the strips of cartilage called annular fibers have a deficit that permits the nucleus to bulge farther than its normal degree.
Hold it!
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The men pointed and stared for fifteen minutes before the police chief motioned toward a small wishing well protruding from the lower frame of the machine, exclaiming, “The little crank and shaft for the well bucket is the bobbin winder!”
The Safe
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He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff face.
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He constructed a toreador mounted on a horse composed of drainpipes, with bicycle tyres to represent the horse's protruding entrails.
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I thought I could just make out a tree-covered ridge protruding through the thick layer of clouds.
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Protruding from his belly was an ugly purple scar.
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In a blink of an eye, the point of her blade was protruding from the back of his armor.
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Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Viewers who climbed aluminum ladders to look into the spaces found segmented rounded forms, their stuffing of foam, fiberfill, wool and even pieces of hard plastic protruding here and there from surfaces of pale, wet-stretched hides.
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They would let lawyers know they were available by having ears of corn or hay protruding from their shoes.
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He was given a 200 fine because it was protruding slightly out of his drive.
The Sun
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Each acorn was cleaned, weighed, and examined for insect larvae exit holes, splits in the shell, and protruding radicles.
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Protruding from the east wall of the quarry was a block of very poor stone that the quarrymen had cut around.
Times, Sunday Times
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They lack true eyes, do not possess wings and have, protruding from their abdomens, a "spring tail," called a furculum, (after the Latin word for fork) which is held in place by two tiny hooks.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
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During the acupuncture stimulation, animals were kept in plastic holders with their tails and hind legs protruding out.
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This would leave Scafell Pikes and other peaks protruding as nunataks, consistent with the observations of Lamb & Ballantyne.
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The torn sackcloth and protruding tubes of fabric at the center of the canvas recall contemporaneous works by both Alberto Burri and Lee Bontecou.
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If toys have protruding objects, be alert to possible entanglement hazards, particularly loose clothing or strings around a child's neck.
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The large eye-catching flowers 1 to 4 inches across are usually red and yellow and have six backswept, often crinkled, petals and protruding stamens.
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His neck was thick and short, and his head habitually stooped; his face bloated, with the lower lip projecting, and large eyes protruding, one of them having a cataractal appearance.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832
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The set is a jungle gym, representative of all that is good on the recess playground; yet it is built in a shoddy fashion, with screws protruding dangerously and with two-by-fours not lined up properly.
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They had megalocephalic skulls, hair growing in long strands from their forearms and calves, and pointed, protruding teeth.
The Time of the Transference
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This figurine was designed as a candlestick, with the holder protruding from the base on either side.
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Other early examples demonstrate the full range of masculine features, with thrusting forehead, strongly marked cheekbones, and sharply protruding eyelids.
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See, you forget that these people exist if you stay at home, avoiding the fair like some sort of black plague that ushers with it human mutants wearing matching mall-photo-booth t-shirts stretched out over gigantic, distended Orca bellies, fried foods running in congealed little balls down their protruding and exposed torsos, long rat tails of hair hanging …
The Archive
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Search out any protruding nail heads and countersink them with a nailset.
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They wore turbans too, and thereunder peered out their elfin faces at me, faces with protruding lower-jaws and bright eyes.
The Evil-Looking Boatmen
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They should be planted with a small portion of the bulbous part protruding just above the ground.
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Microsoft's enviable Xbox 360 car was on-hand complete with three fold-out high-definition gameplay stations protruding from its boot.
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On this day 12 months ago he was in hospital, his right leg in bits with bone protruding through the skin.
The Sun
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We still see remaining an antitypal sketch of a wing adapted for flight in the scaly flapper of the penguin, and limbs first concealed beneath the skin, and then weakly protruding from it, were the necessary gradations before others should be formed fully adapted for locomotion. [
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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To his horror, PC Kelly saw a handgun protruding from the man's coat.
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Those trademark Smart eye-like dials are there, protruding from the top of the dash, while the rest of the layout is well designed using good quality plastics.
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He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him.
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I have seen protruding bellies, working so hard to get nutrients out of food that only rests for a few minutes before being retched up again.
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Current problem in law enforcement procedure is a protruding factor to affect law enforcement quality in public security organ.
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This figurine was designed as a candlestick, with the holder protruding from the base on either side.
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He reached out his arm and felt a large spike protruding from a hard, scaled surface.
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The disease is probably due to congenital defect aggravated by frequent attacks of glossitis, and the treatment consists in the removal of the protruding portions by the knife, ligation, the cautery, or ecraseur.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Its sunken eyes and protruding jaw give its face the look of a terrifying human skull that contrasts with its soulful baby-blue eyes.
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The shelves come to an abrupt stop as the protruding land masses plunge into the depths.
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The very complex disease known as exophthalmic goitre, and shown by irregular and rapid action of the heart, protruding eyeballs and a variety of mental symptoms, is also associated with this gland, and occasioned not by a deficiency but by an excess or perversion of its secretion.
Disease and Its Causes
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Because the orbit (eye socket) is made of bone it cannot expand to accommodate the protruding eyeball.
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A small dwarfish creature, largely hidden by rag coverings with a protruding hook of a nose and sparkling yellow eyes emerged from the heavy undergrowth.
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Their protruding bits of pipe suggest plumbing or wiring or structural reinforcement.
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Thousands listened to this man with a weather-beaten face, long hair parted like a woman's, eyes flashing, clothes a mass of rags, a big toe protruding from a moccasin.
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I had no bottom, no hips, just protruding bones.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's just slightly bigger than a Fig Newton with two tire irons snapped to the side, with no sharp edges or protruding tools to snag jersey pockets or cut spare tubes.
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Some engineers worry the material that is protruding from between thermal tiles in two areas beneath the shuttle near its nose could trigger potentially treacherous overheating during re-entry.
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Miss Hall was white, slim, 5ft 5in tall, with two protruding front teeth and recently dyed red hair cut in a bob.
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The factory workers, the cops, the carpenters, the plumbers, they all wheeled to work, tools protruding from voluminous canvas panniers.
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The envelope was protruding from her bag.
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His arrows were at his side and a lute was strung over his back with its bent neck protruding over his shoulder.
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Their heads were akin to those of a crocodile, with short yellow teeth protruding over scaled lips, and the long snout jutting forwards.
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Apart from his tongue protruding, he appeared normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years, some of the most successful rituals at Rites of Spring have centered around such images: a wicker figure, the Maypole, a bifacial Goddess puppet, a gigantic multi-colored web, an earthen Great Mother protruding from the ground.
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By the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous body shape of the Gibson girl, with a protruding bust and derrière, and small waist.
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It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle.
Sign of Chaos
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The tip of her tongue was protruding slightly.
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Below the curve of eyes was a protruding diamond-shaped structure with holes at each point of the diamond, and below that a round proboscidian mouth lined with inward-facing fangs.
Codgerspace
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The marionettes used in the first 15 minutes of the play are stringless and later on he straps on a headband with a protruding puppet head lodged in front of him.
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The bucks have short antlers that point backwards, and small tusks that are in fact protruding teeth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The protruding wing tip feathers seemed to confirm that they were eagles.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rick of cordwood, the protruding edge of a swollen shutter, the iron bracket of a hoist.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Fedallah Personal Description: Tall, swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from his steel-like lips.
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A single-seater aircraft, it looked rather tiny, but the 37 mm cannon in its nose, its barrel protruding through the propeller boss, was not.
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The enemy soldier fell to the ground with the arrow protruding from his back.
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Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s).
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall.
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These rollers have drums with many protruding studs, each similar to a sheepsfoot, that provide a kneading action.
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It was bent at a strange angle and the outline of bone was evident, protruding to the point of almost breaking through the skin.
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Gradually they evolved into plump stone discs with a handle protruding from the top surface.
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That's not a problem - all of Lomi Design's wardrobes are made to order and can be customised to suit your space, whether it involves protruding chimneys, wall nibs, or sloped ceilings.
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Glancing down at a stack of books, I noticed a satiny edge of paper protruding from the pages of one.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Abdominoplasty, or a 'tummy tuck, ' is a cosmetic surgery designed to correct a protruding abdomen that may result from weak abdominal muscles, weight gain, or pregnancy.
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I sit here, tediously pecking away at the keyboard with one hand because the other is protruding from the end of a cast I'm wearing after surgery to repair my elbow with a big ol 'screw last week.
Insurances (health)
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Hundreds of patients had damaged their feet by wearing shoes or sandals that had a tiny rough spot protruding.
Christianity Today
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Protruding from each reserved book is a note of the inscription required.
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Closer examination revealed a pair of compound eyes mounted on movable stalks, protruding from a burrow and rotating independently, like the periscopes of a submarine.
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Hundreds of patients had damaged their feet by wearing shoes or sandals that had a tiny rough spot protruding.
Christianity Today
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We recognize the wonderfully painted peaches and pear suggesting the fleshy cheeks and nose of "Vertumnus" (c. 1590), note his peapod eyelids and cardoon moustache, then fleetingly manage to see this paean to abundance as a portrait of the robust Rudolph II, before losing ourselves in cabbage leaves, olives, a blackberry eye, and the glistening cherries of his protruding Hapsburg lip.
The Proto-Surrealist
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Sufferers can also report fibres protruding from their skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid.
Times, Sunday Times
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She knew her protruding lower lip drawn into the portrait aptly represented a sulky princess.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s).
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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The median bar is eccentrically positioned in the shell; thus the lengths of the protruding rays differ within a specimen.
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Burnell regarded the long face with its protruding eyes and the hank of hair hanging over the forehead.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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One of Henry's giant teeth was protruding at an awkward angle.
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If it's sufficiently deep, it will call into existence a glittering watch chain on a protruding belly, labored breathing, and a bald head bedewed with perspiration.
Translated Texts
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After the first sanding, check to see if any nails are now protruding, and, if so, countersink them.
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Apply enough pressure to slow bleeding but be careful not to press directly on to the protruding bone.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the foot of the hill he passed by the green and white Rectory, and there was the parson, a short fat, pursy man with wrists protruding from his jacket sleeves as he stood on tip-toe tying up a rambling rose-shoot on his trim cedared lawn.
The Return
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The envelope was protruding from her bag.
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This touch-sensitive work consists of a series of horn-like spikes protruding from two circular discs that are hung on a wall like a painting.
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His crimson eyes were locked onto her gaze; a cigarette protruding from his lips at a jaunty angle.
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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.
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A tiny feathered "thumb," the alula, improves flight control. The protruding shaft on the first wing feather makes a loud, rustling sound—adding acoustics to the visual display.
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He had expected them to be bats, but they were small goblins, with pointy, bat like ears, a pronounced underbite with sharp teeth protruding, and long, spindly arms with long fingered hands punctuated by dagger like nails.
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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A second risk is strangulation of the hernia, which occurs when the protruding tissue swells and cuts off the blood supply to the loop of intestine within it.
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He reached out his arm and felt a large spike protruding from a hard, scaled surface.
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Nervously, I moved forward, fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole.
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He was big and ugly, with a nose that had been spread half across his face, probably by a club, there wasn't a hair on his phiz or gleaming skull, the huge arms protruding from his vest were covered with tattoos, but what took the eye was that he was clieking away with knitting needles at a piece of woollen work - not a common sight in a waterfront dosshouse.
THE NUMBERS
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The protruding end of the ovipositor was grasped with fine tweezers and the whole reproductive tract pulled out.
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Atop one of the lower hills, a lone building shaded by a grove of oaks stood watching over the rest; a white steeple protruding skyward from the shingled roof as if reaching for the heavens themselves.
