How To Use Sticking out In A Sentence
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I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture.
The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
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There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding.
Sketches by Boz
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He winked at her and led her to a metal post sticking out of the ground.
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He approaches us, carrying a detonator box with a T-shaped handle sticking out of the top.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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And as Maigret scowlingly pointed to the newspaper sticking out of his pocket, he smiled.
Maigret Afraid
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But she admitted there are certain things she wore back then that she would not wear now, such as navel breakers or deep-cut tops with her boobs sticking out.
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They noticed that the Elephant was limping, and then they saw the long blackwood splinter sticking out of his swollen foot.
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No 3 on the list is the Viking burial boat discovered sticking out of a sand dune on the island of Sanday in 1991.
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Yes, a screwdriver sticking out of your neck is always something of a wrinkle.
2009 September « One-Minute Book Reviews
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First car was a '64 Austin Healy Sprite, deer head and legs sticking out the trunk was quite a site. didn't get too far back into the woods but back then I had no problem doing that on foot
Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
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She walked across to the policeman, one shoulder hitched slightly above the other, her hair sticking out straight behind and worn in slick bandeaus on either side of her face, her hat trailing in a melancholy way on her head.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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His gray eyes glinted with an air of impatience as he offered a helping hand to another being, a small boy, his choppy brown locks sticking out disobediently in all directions as he was pulled back to his feet.
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Scott Wells, their guitarist, strums pensively his guitar, which has a bird feather sticking out of the headstock.
Theo Spielberg: On The Road With Free Energy And The Postelles: Portland
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He was tall and lanky, with wisps of blond hair sticking out from under his cap.
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With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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Another, who is in a five-year relationship, burns with embarrassment if she finds her feet sticking out of the covers when they're in bed together, because she thinks they're gnarly.
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He placed his hands on it and looked over it, seeing a foot sticking out from under the tree, and a leg obscured by slashed jeans.
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Your bus pass is sticking out of your jacket pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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A shout drew my attention to one of the others - only a hand was sticking out through the snow.
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The large fallen box structure with a post sticking out to starboard is the gun mount.
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He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
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His jet black hair was sticking out all over the place in its usual fashion.
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He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
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The knife was sticking out next to me, as he was lying crossways on me.
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“Um, gracias… Mon cartes…” She held up a card and pointed at the other cards sticking out of the boy's fingers.
Klondike
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We were immobile on the velvet cushions, my legs sticking out, jacket and skirt velvet enveloped by soft fabric.
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You are looking at yourself on screen but need to look past that smouldering pout and see if there's a tree sticking out of your head.
The Sun
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Golf is kind of like a sport - yet true sports shoes (like running shoes) look dumb sticking out from under the cuffs of regular trousers.
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She's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom.
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English ideas the _pollo_ is more objectionable there than elsewhere, since his idea of riding is to show off the antics of a horse specially taught and made to prance about and curvet while he sits it, his legs sticking out in the position of the Colossus of Rhodes, his heels, armed with spurs, threatening catastrophe to the other riders.
Spanish Life in Town and Country
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Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it.
The Imperialist
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What man wants to be seen with those knife handles sticking out?
Times, Sunday Times
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We have a tree here with a whole lot of cormorant nests and right on the left there halfway up is a darter nest, often called snakebirds, because all you see in the water is their neck sticking out.
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The sweaty ones with bits of fuse wire sticking out of their beards?
The Sun
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If you want to get a bird's eye view of what's going on in the surrounding villages (not much) then a brisk climb up to their summits is suitably rewarding, even if it's only to see Range Rovers not giving way on the narrow lanes to gargantuan John Deere tractors with equally frightening implements sticking out the back.
Autumn Ascents
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Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles.
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He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
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Listening to Gerry slurping his drink from an oversized glass or sticking out his chin and puckering his lips didn't do anything for me.
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Autopsy, which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Mum has hung little trinkets on the nails that were sticking out of the walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hairlike bristles sticking out all over the inflorescence are typical of foxtail grasses.
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He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
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And her outdoor boots were sticking out from under the bed.
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‘I could dictate the words to you,’ he offered, sticking out a hand to receive the book.
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Her make-up was smudged from last night and her usually clean-cut hair was sticking out every which way.
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These brownies I'd made then had pretzel sticks of various sizes and shapes sticking out of them at various angles with multi-colored gumdrops at the free end of those sticks, in fact.
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Your hair is sticking out in the back.
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If there is an object sticking out of the wound - a knife, or a shard of broken glass, for example - do not remove it.
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Those rickety buses with steel bars sticking out just to load extra numbers should be banished from our roads.
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She spins around like a little girl with her tongue sticking out to catch the drops.
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Heads up, shoulders back, there wasn't even a hint of a shirt sticking out, a crooked tie or a dirty shoe, as pupils smiled broadly at the President.
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Typical of young shearwaters, it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out.
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What man wants to be seen with those knife handles sticking out?
Times, Sunday Times
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He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
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Early grenades were like cartoon bombs: an iron sphere packed with gunpowder and a fuse sticking out of the top.
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There are still a few rough edges and nailheads sticking out here and there, but I'm quite pleased with how the site came out.
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There was a handkerchief sticking out of his jacket pocket.
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Half of my hair has come unbraided and is sticking out at odd angles, I have a red welt across one cheek, and the bite marks on my chest are visible.
Slayed
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Just then his pants caught on a nail that was sticking out from the roof, and the nail stopped his fall.
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The other side however is broken in about 4 parts and jagged bits of bone are sticking out.
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Ghalib tugged at the collar of the Major's wolfskin coat, sticking out from the top of his sleeping bag, `Wake, Bayim!
KARA KUSH
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Yes | No | Report from blueridge wrote 2 weeks 1 day ago ckonnerth, I am trying to imagine your deer sticking out of both sides of the Austin Healy ... love it!
Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
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And then there are the clams themselves, what with their icky clam foot sticking out of their shell like a tongue of a lecherous mutant.
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He scraped his toe on an old nail head sticking out of the boards.
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At Merger, a "nunatak" or rocky peak sticking out of the ice, the only evidence of a visit by U.S. scientists in 1975 is a tiny metal stake covered by a pile of rocks.
Reuters: Top News
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A team of Japanese scientists, led by Toshiyuki Hata of the Kagawa University School of Medicine, is using 3-D ultrasound to count fetal blinks and yawns, and to document what they call expressions like smiling, scowling, and sticking out the tongue.
Origins
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He approaches us, carrying a detonator box with a T-shaped handle sticking out of the top.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Under his arm he carried a large portfolio of drawings and she saw that he had pencils sticking out from his pocket.
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But sticking out of the top of the boots were two leg bones.
Broken Lives
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Dressed in a cashmere twin set and pearl necklace, she stood making the sign of the horns with her hand, sticking out her tongue, and screaming like crazy while her daughter humped a piano bench onstage.
Welcome to My World
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She grasped its tangled mane with both hands and sat sidesaddle upon it, her broken leg sticking out.
STARDUST
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Police were called to a yard after reports of an oil drum with wires sticking out.
The Sun
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To the rear of the left torpedo tube, the flap is missing and the rudders and screw of one of the torpedoes are sticking out of the pipe.
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He swung the spear so that the staff rested against his back, his right hand held onto the part sticking out to his right, and when he got close to the block he gave a twist of his body, cutting through it with the spear at his side.
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The sweaty ones with bits of fuse wire sticking out of their beards?
The Sun
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On 15 September 1955, three marines and a civilian scientist from the Royal Navy's new survey ship HMS Vidal were winched from a helicopter on to a tiny, pyramid-shaped outcrop of granite sticking out of the Atlantic Ocean 240 miles west of the Orkneys.
'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
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Of course, to call four rickety docks sticking out into the river a harbor was something like calling a molehill a mountain.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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What man wants to be seen with those knife handles sticking out?
Times, Sunday Times
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The ox's bones were sticking out of their backs.
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Alison was covered with bandages and tubes sticking out of her nose.
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I had assumed the yellow and black part was the wing cover the elytron of a beetle and the membranous part, which I thought was sticking out from underneath, was the hind wing.
Archive 2008-06-01
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What man wants to be seen with those knife handles sticking out?
Times, Sunday Times
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On my side were little sugar rivers and lollipops sticking out of the ground.
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He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out.
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It had fangs sticking out of its upper and lower jaw, which was common enough, but no wings straddling the row of spikes that also ran, backswept, over its back.
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It just so happened that every ten feet on this path there were sprinkler heads sticking out of the ground.
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Just a pointed building sticking out of the sand.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was dressed up in a tuxedo, and you could see a white shirt, and white cravat sticking out of the front of it.
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She was so thin that she had knobbles of bone sticking out.
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Today he was wearing the same garments he had donned then, a green tunic and leggings, with a brown belt and shoes and a cap with a bright pink feather sticking out of it.
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He had a copy of The Sun sticking out his back pocket and huge sovereign rings clunked on his fingers.
Baby Blue
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Monterey Pines have only recently become available in Qld. We usually only have Radiata (?) pines which are pretty spindly and always have branches sticking out where they shouldn't.
Real or Fake? The Christmas Tree Dilemma
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They're sticking out for twice the usual salary.
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Wooden, gray gravestones were sticking out of the ground accompanied by carved pumpkins and a scarecrow sitting on hay.
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He took out a battered red book with pages sticking out from the sides and a foreign inscription on the cover.
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If the England captain ever got drunk and ran singing around a territorial army mess hall with a burning newspaper sticking out of his jacksie, we will never know.
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You are looking at yourself on screen but need to look past that smouldering pout and see if there's a tree sticking out of your head.
The Sun
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We found some pretty neat stuff: a few places with heaps of charcoal and good potential for radiocarbon dates; old tree roots (I think) sticking out of the loess, which could be evidence of the area previously being forested, as they were quite big and can be dated as well; a tall cliff of loess (no rocks!) with a paleosol in the middle.
NYT > Home Page
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Your hair is sticking out in the back.
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There was Schick by the pond upside down, Austen by the apple tree, his cowlick feather still sticking out.
WHITE LIES
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I have a tiny picture clipped from a magazine of a tarsier staring with its trademark surprised look at the camera with a big bug sticking out of its mouth.
My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie
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He tried to stand up and banged his head rather painfully on a shelf sticking out of the wall.
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I have a tiny picture clipped from a magazine of a tarsier staring with its trademark surprised look at the camera with a big bug sticking out of its mouth.
Archive 2008-08-01
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It crashed into the nearside barrier, ending up with its nose sticking out into the first lane of the motorway.
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It had a saddle with springs sticking out, which wore away the seat of my pants.
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The male has a scaled belly, black chin, and a big, black topknot sticking out of the top of his head.
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They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy," which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.
Discovery PULLS Bizarre Michael Jackson 'Autopsy' Show
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An arm was sticking out from the hole.
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His drawings are usually over in five minutes - all have disembodied figures sticking out of the ocean and shattered boats drawn in one dark colour - red.
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The book had a brown binding, spine nearly stripped of color, pages sticking out from the sides.
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You don't want an arm sticking out when you go from transonic to supersonic.
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Jamal Mashburn again tormented his former team and fans, trading barbs with Tim Hardaway and Dan Majerle, sticking out his tongue at hecklers in the crowd and scoring 22 points.
USATODAY.com - Hornets embarrass Heat again, take 2-0 lead
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Just a pointed building sticking out of the sand.
Times, Sunday Times
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I made a semi-carrier type of approach in a left-hand turn with my head sticking out into the slipstream.
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The doors were slammed shut and gun barrels were sticking out of the windows.
Times, Sunday Times
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And on the roof there was a red and blue light bar with a whole slew of antennas sticking out from the top.
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His hair reached just past his shoulders and pointed ears were sticking out from his hair.
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One day I was looking for sea glass in Margate, NJ and I saw a small piece of light green sticking out of the sand.
Sea Glass and Shells, My Oh My! « Sunrise over the iceberg
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What man wants to be seen with those knife handles sticking out?
Times, Sunday Times
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Bare wires were sticking out of the cable.
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There was some clothing on the body but it was really just a skeleton, the hip bones were sticking out.
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When he went in, Mrs. Davis was standing behind the counter, dressed in a cap of wonderful grandeur, and a red tabinet gown, which rustled among the pots and jars, sticking out from her to a tremendous width, inflated by its own magnificence and a substratum of crinoline.
The Three Clerks
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The open mouth with the teeth sticking out is unsettling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girls made the discovery after spotting a piece of red material sticking out of the ground in the park's wooded area.
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My copy of Gray's Anatomy, the famous doorstopper, has a smudgy black and white photograph of Henry Gray posed next to a dissecting table in a dark suit and a cravat, a pair of naked human feet sticking out stiffly in front of him.
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Now I had about 5/8 of an inch of the dowels sticking out past the bottoms of the frames.
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Pheffer claimed that during the search he went into Rice's bedroom, and in a closet, he found three attaché suitcases, Samsonite, kind of grayish, kind of bluish, gray color that had wires sticking out of all three of them.
Conflicting dynamite testimony by police detailed to Nebraska Supreme Court raises doubt in 1971 Black Panther case
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By the time we headed back to the palace, we smelled of horse manure and hay, with hay and grass sticking out from our hair and clothes.
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My father remembered riding a horse across ranch land and seeing big bones sticking out, so he took me to find the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having secured the urson in a way which made its escape impossible, we turned our attention to the sable, which the dogs had brought to bay, but the brave little creature was becoming faint, from the wounds inflicted on it from the porcupine's tail, the quills from which were sticking out all over one side of its body.
With Axe and Rifle
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Even pretending to be an imbecile did not blind her to the fact that her advisors broke into sly smiles they quickly tried to conceal when they saw the piece of silk sticking out of her bag.
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Her arms were crossed and her hands were curled in a fist, palm up, with her thumbs and pinkies sticking out.
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Your bus pass is sticking out of your jacket pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're sticking out for twice the usual salary.
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It had a saddle with springs sticking out, which wore away the seat of my pants.
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His limbs, sticking out of a tennis shirt and a pair of shorts that lost the Empire, were shaking more than an agoraphobic greyhound.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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For example, let's say you've got an eight-foot long skull of a Triceratops-like dinosaur adorned with horns over the nose and eyes, and an elongated bony frill sticking out behind.
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They then insert a bunch of re-bar (the big wires you see sticking out here) into the hole and fill it with a special epoxy cement.
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But sticking out of the top of the boots were two leg bones.
Broken Lives
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You can see their feet sticking out from beneath an elaborately embroidered cloth.
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She made a pillow of her cloak and laid her own knife under it with the haft sticking out below her chin.
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The open mouth with the teeth sticking out is unsettling.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the bud pics of the living Kali plant in the article one can clearly see the narrow leaf shape sticking out of the bud.
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The doors were slammed shut and gun barrels were sticking out of the windows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Romeo looked so cute with his hair sticking out from underneath his beanie.
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He had two great mounds of curls sticking out of his hat on either side of his head, and the biggest chaw of tobacco in his cheek that I've ever seen.
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If there is enough sticking out to unscrew it with a pair of pliers or to hacksaw a slot in it and unscrew it with a screwdriver, then do that.
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You can imagine the points as nails sticking out of a board with an elastic band stretched so that it rings the largest possible number of nails.
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My father remembered riding a horse across ranch land and seeing big bones sticking out, so he took me to find the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure enough, the big toe sticking out of the hole she had worn in her soft leather shoes was swollen.
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He watched as the bucket of the backhoe was removed from the hole, revealing a contorted broken pipe sticking out of the bottom of the hole.
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The best, like all good things, has gone for ever, and this best way was for a thing called a capstan to have sticking out from it, movable, and fitted into its upper rim, other things called capstan -- bars.
First and Last
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Flat-roofed with lots of glass and obtuse angles sticking out from the corner of a meadow, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
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Already a rotund figure, she was a quaint sight with her legs sticking out of her bulky costume like matchsticks.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The sweaty ones with bits of fuse wire sticking out of their beards?
The Sun
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The carved relief from this false door shows Nebet wearing a long scarf and carrying two cloth sacks and two sistra one of which is sticking out of the sack on the right.
Archive 2008-02-01
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There is a huge chunk of metal still sticking out of the village hall door.
The Sun
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There's an old guy in the queue wearing dungarees, and headphones with a huge long aerial sticking out of his NY Giants baseball cap.
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Many "deadheads" can be seen sticking out of the water, and some caution needs to be taken to avoid submerged ones if you are paddling close to the shore.
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Sticking out the wall, a hideous copper excrescence, was the new gas pipe, vertical from waist height but then, up above my head, twisting out to disappear through the ceiling at the point where the cornices met.
It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room
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Astronauts will try to pull out or cut off two fabric strips that are sticking out from the belly of the shuttle.
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I stepped on a nail sticking out of the floorboards.
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Her hair was unruly and sticking out at all ends and though she was nearing the end of her life her eyes shone with youth and liveliness.
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The stern of a ship was sticking out of the water, the rest already beneath the water's surface.
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And what does a dead blue mophead of a dog with blank eyes, a prune nose and its tongue sticking out have to do with TODAY?
The Amercian Way
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There was some clothing on the body but it was really just a skeleton, the hip bones were sticking out.
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Hair white and fuzzy, sticking out at both sides; eyes sunken and haunted; hands gnarled.
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The door came flying open showing a depressed creature, bedraggled, with hair tangled and sticking out in odd directions.
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Holmes affected to not know what I was talking about, and continued to read the Times while wheezing around the chalk sticking out of his hooter.
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Sticking out of the breast pocket of her ulster was the big envelope containing her bid.
Tom Grogan
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The mattress covering the door has a hole burrowed through it, springs and stuffing sticking out every which way.
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Bare wires were sticking out of the cable.
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The arrow had barely gone in, half the barb still sticking out.
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Any nylon fibers sticking out at the top and bottom of the samples were trimmed with scissors.
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If you look hard enough you can see my fat puku sticking out.
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They fool everyone into believing they're all powerful, but then you get up close and peel back the curtain, and it's just some old geezer with a few levers sticking out of the control panel.
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When did you last see a hole in a house with some untidy straw sticking out of it?
Times, Sunday Times
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Lykopis heard the hissing of an arrow and saw the man fall, the same arrow sticking out his neck.
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His arms and legs straightened out, no longer sticking out at odd angles.
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LANCASTER (AP) - An ex-convict has pleaded not guilty to murder for the crossbow killing of a 62-year-old retiree whose body was found in a Lancaster intersection with an arrow sticking out of his chest.
Victorville Daily Press :
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When did you last see a hole in a house with some untidy straw sticking out of it?
Times, Sunday Times
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There's just a series of about, must be 20 layers of concrete that have all just pancaked onto each other and you can see carpets and light shades and bits of clothing sticking out of it.
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Except he leaves the windscreen wipers sticking out, the seats lying back and the music very loud.
Times, Sunday Times
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The open mouth with the teeth sticking out is unsettling.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was dead, on the floor, with an arrow sticking out of his neck.
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There's nothing pretty about his thinness any more; he's a walking bruise with bones sticking out all over.
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She had searched everywhere and by chance stumbled across Bert's pile of dirty laundry and saw it sticking out from underneath.
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And there was a great black crock upon the brandise with his legs a-sticking out, but I dont know what was in within.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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You are horrified to see a small foot sticking out from behind your rear tire.
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His answer â Some people wore t-shirts which had photoâs of guns in holsters or positioned to look as though they were guns sticking out of trousers (as it happened I had one of these in my bag.
Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives
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They're sticking out for twice the usual salary.
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Its walls stand five-foot thick, the building is three storeys high with small castellated towers sticking out at the tops of each corner of the building.
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Then they both had to stand by the scarecrow and have pieces of hay sticking out of their mouths, to look like farmers.
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No matter how neatly he combed it, the wavy strands kept sticking out in all directions.
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His face glistened with sweat, and his hair was plastered to his forehead, sticking out in some places.
