protuberance
Example Sentences
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After friends and family suggested the protuberance might be a contender for the Guinness World Records, the couple submitted an application for “the world’s heaviest potato,” sat back and waited.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
That explained the protuberance on its snout, which resembled a tiny battering ram.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2021
What looks like a peanut-shaped head on these planthoppers from American and Caribbean rain forests is really a hollow protuberance that shields their real noggin.
From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018
Out of nowhere, it seems, there’s a painful protuberance at the lower end of the breastbone or sternum.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017
She thought she could see the white protuberance of bone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
