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Protruding   /proʊtrˈudɪŋ/   Listen
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Protrude  v. t.  (past & past part. protruded; pres. part. protruding)  
1.
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
2.
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. "When... Spring protrudes the bursting gems."



Protrude  v. i.  To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project. "The parts protrude beyond the skin."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Protruding" Quotes from Famous Books



... successful that day was made plain, not only by the extra stoop forward, which was rendered necessary by the weight of his basket, and the beaming satisfaction on his face, but by the protruding tail of a grilse which was too large to find room for the ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... the stairs to the first floor of the celebrated nursing home, where, after a moment's delay, he was shown into a large and airy apartment. Immelan was in bed, looking very ill indeed. He was pale, and his china-blue eyes, curiously protruding, were filled with an expression of haunting fear. A puzzled doctor was standing by the bedside. A nurse, who was smoothing the bedclothes, glanced around at Prince Shan's entrance. The invalid started convulsively, and, clutching ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... without, built by Bulfinch in 1806, is one of the most flawless examples of its type on the South Shore. You will appreciate the cream-colored paint, the buff walls, the quaint box pews of oiled wood, with handrails gleaming from the touch of many generations, with wooden buttons and protruding hinges proclaiming an ancient fashion; but the unique feature of the New North Church is its slave galleries. These two small galleries, between the roof and the choir loft, held for thirty years, in diminishing numbers, negroes and Indians. The last occupant ...
— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery

... you seed 'em fall out, too, I lay!" rejoined the negress, protruding her thick red lips as she turned the basket upside ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... which scarcely contains a dull page. Whether he is giving us a pen-picture of Mr. CHURCHILL conducting Admiralty business from a sick-bed, with his head swathed in flannel and an immense cigar protruding from the bandage; or explaining how the legend of Lord KITCHENER'S survival arose from a trivial error that caused the news of the Hampshire disaster to reach Berlin a few minutes before it was published ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920 • Various


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