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protrude

[proh-trood, pruh-] / proʊˈtrud, prə- /


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Gelifen couldn’t yet fly alongside her, so she tucked him into her jumper, his beaked face protruding from the blue wool at the top.

From Literature

Ornamental bay windows protrude from the sooty brick exterior that I estimate to be seventeenth century.

From Literature

There’s colored contacts and facial prosthetics, a protruding belly and at least an hour of makeup.

From Los Angeles Times

As a result, it remains a ruin—a mostly standing skeleton with steel rebar protruding from mangled concrete walls.

From The Wall Street Journal

If the fish-trap hypothesis is the right one, then the lines of protruding monoliths would have also supported a "net" made of sticks and branches to catch fish as the tide retreated.

From BBC