poke out
Example Sentences
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Gill also dances in the work, and the first parts of her to emerge are her bare feet; they poke out from a wing before retracting, like those of the Wicked Witch of the East.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Drawings of his legs poke out of the other side.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Shriveled crimson ghost peppers poke out beneath a canopy of waxy green leaves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
Thousands of large, spikey, cactus-like plants poke out of sun-baked earth, watched over by green-brown hills.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2022
But Beowulf stood firm, holding the monster in a grip so tight that it almost made his own big fingers crack and the bones poke out of the straining flesh.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
