protruding
Example Sentences
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An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
As a result, it remains a ruin—a mostly standing skeleton with steel rebar protruding from mangled concrete walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
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 • Dec. 11, 2025
Hidden behind each protruding eye are two long, spiraled optic nerves -- a configuration not documented in any other lizard species.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025
I managed to avoid her, but slammed my shoulder hard into a protruding birch branch.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
