protrusive

Example Sentences

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She interpreted the virus’s protrusive spikes with tufts of red tissue paper left over from Christmas, and filled up the corona’s hollow with sparkly pompoms and unshelled nuts.

From New York Times • May 4, 2020

The lips by this time were markedly large and protrusive; part of his daily discipline was tedious button-and-string exercises designed to promote hypertrophy of the orbicularis muscles.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011

Radical increase of the lips’ protrusive range requires systematic exercise of the maxillary fasciae, such as the depressor septi, orbicularis oris, depressor anguli oris, depressor labii inferioris, and the buccinator, circumoral, and risorius groups.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011

Havelock rather disliked her protrusive blue eyes, but he could not resist her New-Woman camaraderie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her eyes were weak and watery; her spectacles strong and thick; her nose indeterminate, wavering, erratic; her ears large, her teeth irregular and protrusive, her mouth unfortunate and not guaranteed to close.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher