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
Havelock rather disliked her protrusive blue eyes, but he could not resist her New-Woman camaraderie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince was a King Charles spaniel, with the shortest of snub noses, the most protrusive of great intelligent eyes, and long silky ears that nearly swept the ground.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Over a high and rather protrusive forehead, long hair of iron gray was always swept back.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
