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Example sentences for "protrude"

Lexicographically close words:
protract; protracted; protracting; protraction; protractor; protruded; protrudes; protruding; protrusible; protrusion
  1. Both hands are held edgewise before the body, palms facing, spread the fingers, and place those of one hand into the spaces between those of the other, so that the tips of each protrude about an inch beyond.

  2. The tongue may be, and usually is, covered by a white fur, through which protrude a few enlarged red papillæ.

  3. In other cases the tongue is dry, brown, and shrivelled, or covered with a tenacious, viscid secretion which renders it difficult to protrude it.

  4. Occasionally the tongue is contracted in bulk, and it may {351} then, in consequence of its dryness and that of the mouth, be impossible to protrude it.

  5. Wood-nodules or Sphaeroblasts are curious marble-like masses of wood which protrude with a covering of bark from old trunks of Beeches, etc.

  6. Those fin-bones (inter-spinous bones) which protrude inside may be cut fairly short with the scissors, and the flesh nicely scraped off from each side.

  7. This is managed by allowing the wood of each setting board to protrude beyond its cork to the thickness of the slip--say half an inch.

  8. Their eyes seemed almost to protrude from their faces.

  9. Inside his coat was something which caused the garment to protrude in such a manner as to reveal, and yet at the same time to conceal, whatever Dennis had secured.

  10. To Noel the eyes of the startled negro seemed almost to protrude like saucers.

  11. He finds that the stalk end of the pear-like section continues to protrude more and more, and the flattening between it and the axis of rotation becomes a constriction.

  12. Swelling of the coronet close to the top of the hoof causes the quarter to protrude beyond the wall.

  13. This follows choking, and is due to stretching or rupture of the muscular coat of the gullet, allowing the internal, or mucous, coat to protrude through the lacerated muscular walls.

  14. Still more rarely the wall of the vagina becomes relaxed, and being pressed by a mass of intestines will protrude through the lips of the vulva as a hernial sac, containing a part of the bowels.

  15. Erysipelas is attended with much swelling, extending beyond the lids and causing the mucous membrane to protrude beyond the edge of the eyelid (chemosis).

  16. The surface of the resulting ulcers or abscess cavities soon fills up with exuberant granulations which protrude beyond the surface of the skin, giving it a fungoid appearance.

  17. After death the bodies putrefy rapidly and bloat up; the tissues are filled with gases, and a bloody foam exudes from the mouth, nostrils, and anus, and frequently the mucous membranes of the rectum protrude from the latter.

  18. The muffle should be shorter than the work, so that the tempering of either end of the work may be retarded, if it is proceeding too fast, by allowing that end to protrude through the muffle.

  19. Then behind the washer place another temporary one that will protrude beyond the end of the pin; then grip the whole tightly between a pair of lead clamps or pieces of thick leather in the vice; this will bring all parts of the joint home.

  20. If, after tightening the wedge, the blade is found to protrude too much, a light blow on the fore end on the top face of the plane will cause it to retire; while a similar blow upon the back end will cause it to advance.

  21. Do the children when sulky, pout or greatly protrude the lips?

  22. As when we smile or laugh we draw back the corners of the mouth, we have lost any tendency to protrude the lips, when pleased, if indeed our early progenitors thus expressed pleasure.

  23. It may be objected to this view of the origin of pouting, that the anthropoid apes likewise protrude their lips when astonished and even when a little pleased; whilst with us this expression is generally confined to a sulky frame of mind.

  24. Horses when savage draw their ears closely back, protrude their heads, and partially uncover their incisor teeth, ready for biting.

  25. Both orangs and chimpanzees, when a little more angered, protrude their lips greatly, and make a harsh barking noise.

  26. On clear days logs can be seen below the surface, and where the water has receded many large stumps protrude from the ground, giving the lake bed the appearance of a timbered area logged off by beavers.

  27. They do not know what dangerous weapons they protrude in front, and will stick their best friends in the eye with provoking complacency.

  28. Wild antic faces would ever and anon protrude themselves upon his sensorium.

  29. The first thing that strikes the observer in the post-mortem examination of a person who has died of this disease is the tendency of the intestines to protrude through the cut made in the abdominal wall.

  30. When large portions of a malignant mass protrude from the anus, they may be removed by the application of a paste of arsenite of copper or by the elastic ligature, the destruction being safe and rapid.

  31. In females it has been known to press the anterior wall of the vagina backward and downward, so as to make it protrude at the vulva.

  32. Accompanying impaction, and as a result, is spasmodic contraction of the sphincter ani, which causes the anus to protrude in a nipple shape and to firmly resist the introduction of the finger.

  33. The penis consists of a pair of slender, clavate, chitinous spicules, the ends of which protrude from the cloacal aperture at the root of the tail.

  34. As a rule, the first teeth protrude late, about the ninth or tenth or twelfth month.

  35. Plate 56; and hence, that instruments descending to this part from before push forcibly against the urethra, and are more apt to protrude through it than to have their points turned so as to ascend the curve towards the neck of the bladder.

  36. When the bowel is about to protrude at either of the rings, it first dilates the peritonaeum, which covers these openings.

  37. Care should be taken that all brads protrude the same distance.

  38. Insert at each point measured a small brad which has been sharpened at both ends, leaving the end protrude about 1/8".

  39. This habit destroyed the symmetry of that capital ornament, and made it protrude considerably on the right side; and this protrusion grew greater the longer the wig was worn.

  40. And as I gazed beneath me I saw a hand protrude from another port, perhaps, or some other opening.

  41. The cortical plasma may protrude pseudopodia in the longitudinal groove; it contains trichocysts in several species, true nematocysts in Polykrikos.

  42. By making the slit the same length as the space left at the open end of the wand, the sliding piece will not protrude when the peg is pushed down by means of the thumb.

  43. As the action of throwing is imitated, the forefinger is slid over the coin, the thumb being removed, and the coin thus made to protrude at the back of the hand.

  44. When a few inches only of the handkerchief protrude from the hand, draw near the holder of the glass, whom desire to cease shaking.

  45. The Rhizopoda usually adhere together within a multi-chambered calcareous shell, out of which they protrude mucous filaments, and are therefore the antetypes of the Corals or Polyps.

  46. The first can readily expand and contract, frequently protrude the pharynx like a proboscis or tube, and not unfrequently has manducatory pincers, like as in Insects.

  47. But if the young animal protrude through the tegument, that is a true gemmiparous propagation.

  48. These were brought to a point like the tip of a walrus tusk, and had exactly the appearance of the tusks of a young walrus when they first protrude beyond the lip.

  49. The thong is doubled in the middle and each end passed through one of the heads lengthwise, so as to protrude about 7 inches.

  50. The arms are narrow strips of whalebone, the ends of which protrude at the wrists, and are tied to the paddle by the ends of the strings which work it.

  51. The two ends of the secondary wire pass through the two thick columns of hard rubber which protrude to some height above the table.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protrude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arise; beetle; bulge; come; debouch; effuse; emanate; emerge; erupt; issue; overhang; poke; pouch; pout; project; protrude; stand; start; stick; surface