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Example sentences for "protruding"

Lexicographically close words:
protraction; protractor; protrude; protruded; protrudes; protrusible; protrusion; protrusions; protrusive; protuberance
  1. Immediately behind the trailing edge of the lower wing were two stream-lined funnels, protruding above the hull about a foot.

  2. Near the lower verge, a rude sort of barn, or rather haystack roofed over, and with hay protruding and hanging out.

  3. Vasari and Bocchi say that Donatello, recognising the value of his work, grouped his figures so that the limbs and drapery should offer few protruding angles, in order to minimise the danger of fracture.

  4. Cases have been quoted to show that they did realise it, such as the protruding forehead of Zeus or the deep-set eyes of the Vatican Medusa.

  5. They were hidden away under a protruding cliff and a little niche in the ravine formed by a tributary stream, now dry.

  6. Lying on the bare stones and protruding from an opening was the fleshless arm of a human being, showing traces of the teeth of the wolves, shreds of clothing being scattered about the place.

  7. Looking down upon this mass of rock, Mr. Phillips beheld the limb of a human being protruding from the mass--quite a different outcropping from that which he had gone out to seek.

  8. There was no sign of the captain, but as they turned into Dialstone Lane they both saw a huge, shaggy, grey head protruding from the small window of his bedroom.

  9. He finished the word with a cough and gazed with protruding eyes at Mr. Chalk.

  10. A little further down the ravine, and about ten paces from where the boys were standing, an object was seen protruding above the snow.

  11. A belt around his waist is richly embroidered; and the hilt of a short hunting-sword, protruding from the sheath, appears chased and studded with jewels.

  12. The first thing that Pouchskin did was to grasp the protruding tongue of the bear in his left hand--making a half curl of it round his fingers--while with his right he plunged his long knife right between the ribs of the animal.

  13. The candle flame threw on the wall a vast shadow of his head with its sharp-cut angles, its protruding lower lip, its thin neck and long beak-like nose.

  14. The full protruding lips showed sensuality, yet had something simple and naive in their expression.

  15. No animal possesses at the same time protruding and saw-like teeth.

  16. If a tooth projects above the level of the others, the protruding part must be removed with the file.

  17. Among the animals provided with horns there are none which have protruding or saw-like teeth.

  18. Portions of heads and faces, hands and feet, were found protruding through the earth in every direction.

  19. No attempts at ornamentation are made, the heavy ends of the hide being left protruding in an ungainly way.

  20. This exaltation manifests itself by a violent trembling accompanied by loud belching, copious sweating, foaming at the mouth, protruding of the eyeballs, and in some cases that I have seen, apparent temporary loss of sight and unconsciousness.

  21. Familiar paths are obliterated by pendulous boughs drooping to the earth, while in the pasture tree-sparrows hop upon the snow among the protruding tops of the tallest ragweeds.

  22. But, either by miscalculation of aim, or by an involuntary swerving on the part of one of the horses, the weapon had missed St. Just and buried itself deep in the flank of his charger, the point even protruding through the buttock.

  23. He could almost feel himself now being hauled up that cliff with a swinging him round and round and bruising him against protruding lumps of chalk; he could almost hear the screaming of the gulls disturbed by him in his ascent.

  24. It is a mask with protruding tongue representing the sun, like that of the Mexican calendar and the central figure over the altar in the Temple of the Sun at Palenque.

  25. Here the stairway was wider, and on each side, forming a balustrade, is a gigantic plumed serpent, whose head and protruding tongue run down the balustrade.

  26. Then fill the higher portion of the lungs, protruding the upper chest, thus lifting the chest, including the upper six or seven pairs of ribs.

  27. Consequently the side of the diaphragm toward the chest organs is like a protruding rounded surface--like a hill.

  28. The big boulder was not to thrust itself into the road any more; another minute, and all that protruding side of it would be blown off and there would be room for two teams to pass each other.

  29. As the night wore on, the hilarity of the company increased, nothing daunted by the sight of a man lying here and there under a bench with a telltale black bottle protruding from his pocket.

  30. I saw goggling, protruding eyes; an orifice that could have been a nose, and a gash upended for a vertical mouth.

  31. A nose orifice, with two protruding brown eyes above it was set outward on stems, and an upended slit of a mouth.

  32. Where poaching is practised, keepers often place in the likeliest places a number of strong stakes armed with protruding nails.

  33. Within this shell the animal's body is lodged; and through a slit in the lid, it has the power of protruding six pairs of articulated cirri or legs, and of securing by their means any prey brought by the waters within their reach.

  34. Then the river turns west and finally south around the long and narrow "Panhandle" protruding northward from the State of West Virginia.

  35. Peculiar little protruding spots when red and prominent on the tip and edges of the tongue indicate irritation of the alimentary tract and call for reduction of food intake.

  36. Rolling double chins and protruding abdomens are signs of self-abuse in eating and drinking.

  37. Protozoa of the Rhizopod type, with protruding processes of living matter.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protruding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bold; eminent; jutting; outstanding; projecting; prominent; protuberant; salient