outthrust
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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
A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin.
From Time Magazine Archive
His face is an elfin caricature, the pale cheeks almost submerged under a wide mustache, the profile dominated by a prominent nose and an outthrust jaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Americans who live inland were little aware as yet of the staggering magnitude of the outthrust of American production.
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
His gaze turned across the Gulf to a tongue of land outthrusting from the long purple reach of Vancouver Island.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
