protuberance

Example Sentences

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For example, why were American women encouraged to torture themselves with cage-like corsets, don yards of cumbersome cloth and carry around a heavy protuberance called a bustle?

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2022

That explained the protuberance on its snout, which resembled a tiny battering ram.

From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2021

What looks like a peanut-shaped head on these planthoppers from American and Caribbean rain forests is really a hollow protuberance that shields their real noggin.

From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018

It’s a pale, translucent, fleshy protuberance the size of a soccer ball that seems to glow in the dripping shade, its complicated folds an unnerving cross between boiled tripe and a sea sponge.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2015

She thought she could see the white protuberance of bone.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan