poke out

Secret Service personnel several hundred metres away had spotted the barrel of a rifle poking out of foliage.

The prickly foes include the Dancing Lion, with strange human limbs poking out from beneath a flowing costume and a refreshing mix of tragedy and lighthearted comedy.

In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 7-year-old cousin in the North Dakota badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock.

Jack’s grandfather was covered in three or four layers of different-colored clothing, while his long white beard poked out from his shirt in several places.

Pillars of jagged concrete poked out from the water — a tomb of wreckage that dimly reflected on the gray-toned river.