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Example sentences for "outthrust"

Lexicographically close words:
outstripped; outstripping; outstrips; outta; outten; outturn; outvie; outvied; outvote; outvoted
  1. In this manner I escaped the point of his sword outthrust towards me, and causing my horse to swerve, I heard Lameray's snarl of rage as he was carried a few paces beyond.

  2. The enemy were yet a dozen paces from us, and we had our swords outthrust to meet them, when the air rang with English shouts, and a great din of firing, and some of the Spaniards fell on their faces, and rose not again.

  3. Tears welled up in Tad's eyes, but his jaw was still outthrust and his shoulders were squared as he walked away.

  4. Tad obeyed, but his chin was outthrust and his eyes flashed.

  5. Curse you, I--" He shrank hastily back before the ominous outthrust of Jimmie Dale's automatic.

  6. Then, as she waited for Spofford to announce that she was under arrest, the blue-coated man with the outthrust lower lip moved aside.

  7. His black mustache was gray at the roots, and the vanity that this use of dye indicated was proved by the outthrust of his lower lip.

  8. With a rigidly outthrust thumb Gray prodded the driver in the side.

  9. Rainey strained his gaze to catch the steamy spiracle and the outthrust of the great head.

  10. One lean, brown hand clenched to a fist that started a long swing from somewhere near his knees; it shot upward to crash beneath the pilot's outthrust jaw and lift him from the floor.

  11. Chet saw them dead ahead; he saw the outthrust heads, each ending in a great suction-cup, the row of disks that were eyes blazing above, and the gaping maw below.

  12. They were on the outthrust shoulder of rock where the mountain road hung high above the valley floor.

  13. Moving slowly forward, his outthrust hands struck a wooden panel which proved to be a door.

  14. Mallows bent with a truculent narrowing of his lids and an outthrust chin, but observing that the city man was in no wise cowed by his scowls he amended his attitude.

  15. Then suddenly she moved with a swiftness that was electric and stood, before her purpose could be guessed, with a heavy-calibered revolver outthrust into the face of the man whose pistol hand had held the whiskey bottle.

  16. His outthrust head, set low on the hunched shoulders, moved from right to left threateningly as his gaze passed from one to another.

  17. The outthrust of his lean jaw left no room for argument.

  18. His face was blazing with anger, his outthrust lip more prominent than ever, his wiry, yellow hair in disarray, the tuft on the crown sticking straight into the air like the upraised hackles of an angry hound.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outthrust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.