outthrust
Example Sentences
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On a recent afternoon, the actor Greg Tannahill sat perched atop a London rooftop, one leg extended, one arm outthrust.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
President Nixon, his chin outthrust, answered the question with one firm word�no�at a press conference in November.
From Time Magazine Archive
A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fought from a crouch�the "Jeffries crouch"�his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catching sight of Pai striding toward him with jaw outthrust and stick lifted, Ranofer bent hastily to his work.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
