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View definitions for protuberant

protuberant

adjective as in bulging

Strong match

Weak match

adjective as in convex

adjective as in jutting

Strongest match

Strong match

Weak match

adjective as in projecting

adjective as in projecting

adjective as in tumid

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Example Sentences

Its acting skills may have helped it in the 13th minute, when Richarlison — there’s another guy — got an inadvertent kick in the box from Kim Moon-hwan and milked it to the heavens, setting up a penalty that survived a VAR review, setting up Neymar at the spot for a stutter-step, a kick slid slowly into the right corner and a showy reaction with a protuberant tongue.

He wrote that Carl Yastrzemski, “like so many great hitters, has oddly protuberant eyes.”

And Cyrano is still in love with Roxane, though he never risks saying so because of that protuberant proboscis.

They’re absolute eye candy, the kind of bud that does it for the ’Gram — great pops of frilly color, their protuberant, pollen-gilded anthers sticking out like … well, exactly what they are.

The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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