Their head is large, and sunken between the shoulders; their hair woolly; most of them are disfigured by protuberantstomach and meagre lower limbs.
They have a protuberant belly, feeble limbs, a long but not projecting face, a depressed skull, long black frizzled hair.
She noticed his large, protuberant Adam's apple throbbing with the accelerando of pleasure, and a thaw set in between them.
From where she sat Lilly could see the slightly protuberant shine to his teeth, the intellectual ride of glasses along his thin nose, the long, nervous hand with a little-finger fraternity ring.
But when she finally did drop off to sleep a smile of protuberant teeth was out like a rainbow across her darkness.
A lifted young profile, ever so slightly of the father's aquilinity, a vocal-looking swell to the bosom, and a chin that locked up prettily to the protuberant upper lip.
To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp.
The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield.
The second stage on the downward road is the photograph of the boy with fresh-cropped hair, and in which the stiff and protuberant thumb takes a leading part.
This, however, could not take place without laying dry the polar regions, so that protuberant land would appear at the poles, and a zone of ocean be disposed around the equator.
These are greatly enlarged, with the skin protuberant and thickened like the sole of the foot.
Its lower surface was somewhat protuberant in the middle; and this part still rested on broken bricks and mortar, showing the truth of the old workman's account.
Therefore all these that are protuberant to view, are as figures carved on a rock; and the light that pervades the whole, is but the glory of the great God.
Their thick thighs are likened to the stems of lumpish plantain trees, and the decorations of their protuberant breasts, are resembled to the strings of flowers, hung upon the turrets of temples.
Her protuberant and exuberant breasts are as bountiful as the bounty of God, to suckle the gods and men and all beings on earth and hills and in the waters below.
When I announced the discovery of the Shippea man the point on which I laid most stress was that, notwithstanding hisprotuberant brow, he could not possibly be of the age of the deposits to which the Neanderthal man was referred.
The most interesting point about them is the protuberant brow, which, when first seen on the detached frontal bone, before the skull had been restored, suggested comparison with that of the Neanderthal man.
His enormous limbs, with protuberant muscles and elastic sinews which seemed bursting with strength, peeped from below the openings of the red mantle in which he was wrapped.
A cold perspiration stood in beads on the protuberant forehead, and on the wasted hands stretched motionless on the bed-clothes.
Strip of vermillion colour above each eye which consists of a fleshey Substance not protuberant but uneaven, with a number of minute rounded dots.
Cumingii; and the basal angle is much broader, owing to the lower carinal margin being much more protuberant than the scutal margin.
Generally only the scales in the uppermost, or in the three or four upper rows are serrated, and this only on their arched and protuberant lower margins.
Scuta, with the occludent margin rounded and protuberant to a variable degree, but always leaving a rather wide space between the margin, and the ridge which runs from the umbo to the apex; apex pointed.
Pedicels of the cirri not particularly protuberant in front.
The posterior cirri have strong, somewhat protuberant segments; and between each of the four or five pair of main spines (Pl.
Labrum highly protuberant in the upper part, with a row of beads on the crest.
The latera in the next whorl are triangular, with the basal margins protuberant and arched, in a less and less degree in the lower whorls, until in the lowest, the valves are elongated transversely.
Spines on the protuberant segments of both rami of both cirri, coarsely and doubly pectinated.
Second and third cirri with five basal segments of both rami protuberant and brush-like; but the anterior rami in both cirri are broader than the posterior rami.
Valves and spines on the peduncle yellowish: basal angle of the terga, viewed internally, blunt, owing to the lower carinal margin being more protuberant than the scutal margin.
Again, the earth is not a perfect sphere, but a spheroid, and there is a factor called precession, due to the attraction on the protuberant mass at and towards the equator.
He scarcely turns his roundprotuberant eyes, `To mark the mood of animals or men.
And when athwart his gaze a Rabbit flies, He scarcely turns his round protuberant eyes.
She had a smile-compelling vision of that straight, lean-limbed, powerful body developing a protuberant waistline and a double chin.
Then we'll investigate a little farther," I said, eying his somewhat protuberant breast-bone.
One of its chairs, set close to the brass rail and plush-covered parapet that barred it off from the more protuberant stage box, was already occupied by a man in full evening dress.
Anal gills fleshy and protuberant as a blunt ring surrounding the anus (fig.
His face was enormous, and though his jaw showed strength and decision, the weak mouth and large protuberant lips indicated that his senses ruled what he himself styled 'the fair habitation of an immortal soul.
For a tick of the clock she deliberately measured her adversary with her protuberant eyes, then slowly she bent her head in formal greeting.
If the sea be really curved, the protuberant part intercepts the view of the hull, while the funnel is still to be seen.
This shows that the earth is flattened at the poles and protuberant at the equator, and it provides the means by which we may calculate the actual lengths of the polar and the equatorial axes.
We have shown that the equatorial axis of the earth is longer than the polar axis, so that there is a protuberant zone girdling the equator.
Hence we can explain the protuberant form of the equator of the earth, and we can appeal to that form in corroboration of the view that this globe was once in a soft or molten condition.
He pulled rein at the sight of her, saluted, and regarded her with his rather too protuberant eyes.
So while he talked to this girl of work and freedom, his slightly protuberant eyes were noting the gracious balance of her limbs and body across the gate, the fine lines of her chin and neck.
He was a square-faced man of nearly fifty, with iron-gray hair a mobile, clean-shaven mouth and rather protuberant black eyes that now scrutinized Ann Veronica.
But this proximate precision gave way in 1569 to a protuberant angle of the Chili coast, as drawn by Mercator, which in turn lingered on the chart till the next century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protuberant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
