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  • Muldoon slid the trouser cuff up and saw the pulpy flesh beneath, the dull white splinters of protruding bone.†   (source)
    protruding = sticking out
  • You are facially symmetrical, but suffer from slightly protruding ears.†   (source)
  • A circle of red skin protruded from his arm, the same exact size as—my stomach dropped—a cigar.†   (source)
    protruded = stuck out
  • Finally, his last foreleg protruded from her mouth as his headless, heartless lower body copulated in perfect rhyme.†   (source)
  • To her right, a book protruded like a bone.†   (source)
  • He was a Tajik, a lanky, dark man with a weather-beaten face, narrow shoulders, and a long neck punctuated by a protruding Adam's apple that only peeked from behind his beard when he turned his head.†   (source)
  • Two joysticks protruded from its control panel, one yellow and one blue.†   (source)
  • Wayne Westerberg's muddy sneakers protrude from the maw of the combine, as if the machine were in the process of swallowing him whole, an overgrown metal reptile digesting its prey.†   (source)
  • Its wings were narrow and mounted high on the fuselage, and its delicate bomb bay doors protruded slightly from the bottom of the plane.†   (source)
  • She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side.†   (source)
  • After a week, Dana Matherson's nose was still slightly purple and puffy, though it definitely wasn't protruding from the center of his forehead, as Garrett had claimed.†   (source)
  • Judge Ford noticed a flask protruding from the back pocket of his uniform, but his breath smelled of peppermint.†   (source)
  • Mr. Granger ran his tongue around his teeth, making his lips protrude in odd half circles, then he turned from Uncle Hammer to Papa.†   (source)
  • The empty coffee can they used for a spreader protruded from a slit in the topmost sack.†   (source)
  • Just a few weeks earlier, the police had discovered a woman passed out at the local car wash, a bag of heroin and a spoon in the passenger seat, the needle still protruding from her arm.†   (source)
  • Her fingers touched a protruding point and a circular lid sprang open.†   (source)
  • She called my parents and told them about my F." The letter ended with a reminder about a "neat spell," drawings of knives and vampire teeth, mushrooms, and a caricature of Mrs. R. lying in a pool of blood, butcher knives protruding from her chest.†   (source)
  • The lights protrude from the wall, so directly beneath each one is a slit of shadow.†   (source)
  • And the drug game was everywhere, with a gun handle protruding from the top of every tenth teenager's waistline.†   (source)
  • Bone protruded through skin and there was bleeding.†   (source)
  • Children looked at Eddie-who, with his protruding lower jaw, always seemed to be grinning, like a dolphin-and they trusted him.†   (source)
  • Wicked instrument-tipped appendages protruded from its body like arms: a saw blade, a set of shears, long rods whose purpose could only be guessed.†   (source)
  • But then he noted the shaft protruding from the cruciform was prismatic and triangular.†   (source)
  • Close up, he saw that Stan Shunpike was only a few years older than he was, eighteen or nineteen at most, with large, protruding ears and quite a few pimples.†   (source)
  • I stare down at the dead body of a soldier clad in military black, a knife still protruding from his chest.†   (source)
  • He had a long neck and a protruding Adam's apple.†   (source)
  • So this was the Whisperer: an oversized metal armchair with a blue helmet bolted to the seatback, and another helmet (this one red) protruding into empty air behind it.†   (source)
  • Your face still has a question protruding from it.†   (source)
  • The skin had split open, and from the laceration of the scalp a tiny strand of pink brain material protruded.†   (source)
  • bare arm protrude from the dark-green privet.†   (source)
  • It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side.†   (source)
  • Maniac finally yelled, and snatched the two red gun barrels protruding from the slots.†   (source)
  • Annemarie could see it protruding from Mr. Rosen's pocket when he returned to the room and sat down again.†   (source)
  • He opened his green eyes wider and gave us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn't completely goofy.†   (source)
  • It's ugly, all right, a big rodent with a fuzz of mottled gray fur and two wicked-looking gnawing teeth protruding over its lower lip.†   (source)
  • The sharp thing seemed to be protruding and snagging on his shirt.†   (source)
  • Its forelegs seem to turn into wings, like a bat's, with a single protruding claw at the wing's leading edge.†   (source)
  • Their noses and jaws protruded awkwardly from their heads, their lips twisted into perpetual grimaces.†   (source)
  • His face is fat and red, the skin on either side of his eyes protruding and puffy, like he is a mound of dough in the middle of rising.†   (source)
  • His stomach protruded and the water dried on it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.†   (source)
  • An Yi and I leaned forward to hear the boy with protruding ears in the row in front of us.†   (source)
  • I switched it on —and almost immediately dropped it, because in the glow I'd caught sight of a man's hand protruding between two chunks of concrete.†   (source)
  • Only the crest of the Giant's face was still visible, and it was white bone, like limestone protruding from a discouraged, withering mountain.†   (source)
  • Every Thursday morning, just when Father Mulligan was due to arrive, Baby Kochamma force-bathed a poor village child at the well with hard red soap that hurt its protruding ribs.†   (source)
  • Fayge's wedding dress caught on a protruding nail.†   (source)
  • The infrared filter was messing with his depth perception and he'd whacked his head on two protruding U-bends so far.†   (source)
  • With a puff of feathers, the crow fell over backward, the arrow protruding from its chest.†   (source)
  • It was silver and bronze, with the monstrous face of Medusa protruding from the center.†   (source)
  • Even from several feet away, I can make out the protrusion of the pipe in his jacket pocket.†   (source)
  • My lungs have refilled with air, but every breath I take feels like I've got a knife protruding from my back.†   (source)
  • The protruding skis were also black.†   (source)
  • There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams.†   (source)
  • A length of plastic tubing protruded from each side of Colton's abdomen.†   (source)
  • It protrudes six inches out through his back, and is quickly pulled free.†   (source)
  • I followed her line of sight and saw the arm protruding from under several heavy logs.†   (source)
  • His rib cage had been splintered so thoroughly that shards of bone protruded from his flesh.†   (source)
  • She stares somewhere just below the camera, crying, her face misshapen and barely recognizable, her nostrils inflamed and ringed with mucus; her lips—swollen to nearly twice their normal size—are surrounded by a deep, dark ring of chapped skin; her tongue is thick and protrudes from her mouth.†   (source)
  • It hurt so deep I didn't even feel the fracture in my jaw, the displacement which would later give me a disjointed, lopsided and protruding chin.†   (source)
  • Protruding about fifty feet into the lake was a dock, and Mack could barely make out three canoes tied at intervals along its course.†   (source)
  • Wrinkled skin was stretched taut over protruding cheekbones.†   (source)
  • And with that he set cup and saucer on his own protruding paunch.†   (source)
  • Fisheye turns toward it for a moment and its high, protruding bridge slides off into the water.†   (source)
  • When the heat got hot, she might walk around the house naked or wrapped in a sheet, her belly protruding like a winning watermelon.†   (source)
  • No limbs protruded from the trunk until it came close to the ceiling, and then the branches burst out into a canopy that covered the roof.†   (source)
  • —Your walks, he says here, not mine or ours, even though the walks were the responsibility of his own landscape department—"In some places there are cobbles or small boulders protruding from the surface, upon which no lady, with Summer shoes, can step without pain.†   (source)
  • Then came the tigers and bears, the two hippos who were inside for the season, and the eight-ton bull elephant, the only part of which we could see being the long trunk protruding from the doorway of his barn.†   (source)
  • His wrists bore wide metal cuffs; she could see the bone handle of a knife protruding from the left one.†   (source)
  • Looking over at him, I notice his flushed cheeks and rabbity eyes, his droopy brown mustache and bristly eyebrows, the stomach that protrudes from the bottom of his vest like a barely hidden balloon.†   (source)
  • "I am hungry," the Baron rumbled, and he rubbed his protruding lips with a beringed hand, stared down at Feyd-Rautha through fat-enfolded eyes.†   (source)
  • I hated coming downstairs sweaty-handed and curious every Saturday night and having some senior introduce me to her aunt's best friend's son and finding some pale, mushroomy fellow with protruding ears or buck teeth or a bad leg.†   (source)
  • Uaaxee returned with a hamper from which protruded a chicken wing as big as a turkey.†   (source)
  • It was like this protrusion around my midsection was a scarlet letter, a badge of shame that showed I was marked for a life of failure and misery because I had sinned.†   (source)
  • One 11-year-old boy, for example, hanged himself inside his house and when found he was already unconscious and his tongue protruding.†   (source)
  • It arrived on an enormous wooden tray, scented and gleaming, with a sprig of parsley in its mouth and a carrot protruding from its rump, the whole reposing on a bed of tomatoes.†   (source)
  • She had the adorable habit of letting the pink tip of her tongue protrude from her full, delectable lips while she concentrated.†   (source)
  • "Me and Robert are safe," Phoebe said, her lower lip protruding slightly, as it did when she got angry.†   (source)
  • Along the wall of the staging area was a row of stainless-steel cabinets with rubber gloves protruding into them.†   (source)
  • "They look high," I said, eying the protruding stiletto.†   (source)
  • He dragged me toward a pile of snow from which protruded human shapes, torn blankets.†   (source)
  • Then the sound would come back, and I would see the Seeker's obstinate face in my head, her protruding eyes scouring the blank desert for some sign of humans.†   (source)
  • Placing her lying on her back with the feet closed, one should hold in place in a small forceps that which protrudes and appears to be larger and cut it back with a scalpel.†   (source)
  • He was a big man, over six feet tall with a protruding midsection that he hid well under his black robe.†   (source)
  • His toes, protruding from sandals, glowed like polished ebony.†   (source)
  • A hair-thin wire protrudes from one end.†   (source)
  • Cora said, sitting on the steps with her hands resting on her protruding stomach.†   (source)
  • Deets noticed the handle of the lance protruding from his side.†   (source)
  • Bones and knobs, every bump of her spine protruding and visible.†   (source)
  • The child's feet protruded from the covering: tiny green sneakers, almost new, white shoestrings tied neatly, pale green socks bunched at the ankles.†   (source)
  • His lower left leg was crushed, and a bone protruded through his calf muscle from a compound fracture.†   (source)
  • Hers was unusually prominent, evoking the long digestive tract that ended there with a slight protrusion.†   (source)
  • They came out of the park at 90th Street, a band of hippies on a candlelight march, with flutes, drums and tambourines, about fifty chanting people, and a man with a needle stuck in his protruding tongue, and a woman with a snake around her neck, and a haze of pungent smoke that had the whiff of some congenial misdemeanor, and there were kids walking along and babies in backpacks and slings, and the marchers chanted a sort of hummed syllable, a thing with a twang, it sounded to me like Bomb, a vibe with the gravid tone of prayer, repeated, repeated, but they wouldn't be chanting an ominous word, would they, with infants strapped to their chests and backs.†   (source)
  • From his shoulder blades jutted a weird pair of knobby protrusions, like the stems of aborted wings: the only outward clue that this twisted man bore any relation to an ymbryne.†   (source)
  • He glared at the bits of steel with protruding eyes, and breathed hard.†   (source)
  • Harry looked at Annie's protruding belly and shook his head and smiled.†   (source)
  • The mother was a pretty young woman with wisps of blond hair protruding from under her roosarie.†   (source)
  • After my business was taken care of, I found a seat between two protruding roots of a black walnut tree and leaned back on its trunk.†   (source)
  • Ten masts the size of redwoods protruded like spines from a deck whose entirety was lost to the night fog.†   (source)
  • The gleaming Mercedes and Land Rovers of the ruling class still hurtled past babies with protruding empty bellies.†   (source)
  • He was kicking the pony's protruding ribs, hurrying, I imagined, to get to work on some rocky, infertile piece of local farmland so his children could have at least one meal today.†   (source)
  • In May 1775, hearing the news of Lexington and Concord, he had set off on foot with little more than the clothes on his back, his fife protruding from a front pocket.†   (source)
  • We could see that the machine-gun muzzle still protruding through its firing slit was bent—probably from overheating as it killed American boys.†   (source)
  • At the end of it, a fingerlike protrusion wiggles and grasps.†   (source)
  • A half-inch tube protruded five and a half inches out the top.†   (source)
  • A large ring of masquerade masks circled a huge globe, six feet in diameter, cut in half and hung to give the appearance it protruded from the wall.†   (source)
  • They're both very skinny, but in a pale, bony way, and have the same slightly protruding teeth.†   (source)
  • Aunt was plump, and her teeth were like jagged stones protruding from a karst cave.†   (source)
  • Over the years, the timbers have buckled and bowed, so that the front of the building protrudes now like the rounded bellies of the men who take too much ale there.†   (source)
  • His narrow bristled head and stringy neck protruded from the blankets he'd wrapped around himself; he looked like a damaged bird of prey in a filthy nest.†   (source)
  • That same man had wiped the sweat from his protruding lips and had spoken of the courage of an insignificant goat-who had survived.†   (source)
  • A pair of eyes peered down through lenses as thick as the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, eyes protruding, luminous and veined, like an old biology specimen preserved in alcohol.†   (source)
  • I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing; I had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach.†   (source)
  • The Gasman couldn't help grimacing as they morphed, becoming more wolflike, their muzzles extending, their teeth protruding until it looked like they had a mouthful of knives.†   (source)
  • From under his shorts protrude white legs into street stockings and shoes.†   (source)
  • The head began to shrink and flatten, teeth protruding from its mouth as if they couldn't fit inside its head anymore.†   (source)
  • The coil protruded from a pile of junk.†   (source)
  • Just above the feet there were knees, and from the knees sharp, forward-aimed spikes protruded.†   (source)
  • At the word hungry a greenish light was kindled in Gollum's pale eyes, and they seemed to protrude further than ever from his thin sickly face.†   (source)
  • The object of Baltazar's aim was a clay pot adorned with protruding points which gave it the appearance of a seven-pointed star.†   (source)
  • One arrow protruded from the dragon's left eye, and the black shafts of two others stuck out from the mouth.†   (source)
  • When they saw the sharp protruding teeth, they were sure Konoma was a cannibal.†   (source)
  • A line of tired soldiers about to be slain by the beam of sunlight that animated the dust lay upon their packs and duffels, rifles and bayonets protruding from their midst like stakes in a vineyard.†   (source)
  • She slipped it into the belt of her skirt, leaving only the dark handle protruding.†   (source)
  • She studied his image, his hands tied above his head, his eyes rolled heavenward, arrows protruding from his chest and sides, and felt a great sympathy for him.†   (source)
  • He nodded at Robert, but he was involved with other things: memories and shifting sounds heard in the night, diamond patterns, black on white; the energy of the designs spiraled deep, then protruded suddenly into three-dimensional summits, their depth and height dizzy and shifting with the eye.†   (source)
  • At some point, someone added a small, protruding shed room off the southwest corner of the house.†   (source)
  • On the sides of steep slopes they could see trailing arbutus and wolfsbane among the stacked slate and other protrusions of rocks.†   (source)
  • Her lips were full and protruded ever so slightly, and even in the standard-issue orange jumpsuit, I could see that her body was magnificent.†   (source)
  • A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear's protruding slightly more than the other.†   (source)
  • "McLean, you load," Cain Gilbreath said, his eighteen-inch neck protruding from his gray cotton uniform shirt.†   (source)
  • He was holding the hoe with both hands across his body, the end of the handle protruding about six inches from his right fist.†   (source)
  • Fangs protruded from his mouth.†   (source)
  • As he moved to a big chair she saw that his eyes were on her protruding stomach.†   (source)
  • From shrubbery over on the right-hand side and possibly in the direction the rider would be heading, protruded a single, painstakingly engraved, black feather.†   (source)
  • Moonlight caught his protruding cheekbones and cast the hollows beneath into shadow.†   (source)
  • But I knew what Miss Eck-hart's was, for it protruded itself well enough into the story.†   (source)
  • The third child is HELEN, six and a half years old, quite unkempt, in body a vivacious little person with a fine head, attractive, but noticeably blind, one eye larger and protruding; her gestures are abrupt, insistent, lacking in human restraint, and her face never smiles.†   (source)
  • He spoke the last in Polish, grinning, revealing pink gums in which the stubs of three or four teeth protruded like raw white slivers.†   (source)
  • Edgar's pale, protruding eyes shifted to Florence, frankly listening, and Eli Blaustein hovering nearby, interested.†   (source)
  • The tip of a small crystal and two tiny wires protruded through the broken chitin of its back.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha sat there lost in thought, his eyes were rigidly focused towards a very distant target, the tip of his tongue was protruding a little between the teeth, he seemed not to breathe.†   (source)
  • He hooked his thumbs around his suspenders and stood, jaw protruding, waiting.†   (source)
  • He wore a pale green shirt with a thin black stripe in it and blue galluses and his trousers cut across a protruding stomach that he pressed tenderly from time to time with his big flat thumb.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile CHAPUYS and his ATTENDANT have gone behind screen, beneath which their legs protrude clearly) STEWARD (Conspiratorially) Sir, Sir Thomas doesn't talk about it.†   (source)
  • Alexander Alexandrovich's upper lip with its little cropped mustache protruded above the lower lip in just the same way as his butterfly tie stuck out from his neck.†   (source)
  • The robots, clothed in hair of ape and white of rabbit, arose: Tweedledum following Tweedledee, MockTurtle, Dormouse, drowned bodies from the sea compounded of salt and whiteweed, swaying; hanging blue-throated men with turned-up, clam-flesh eyes, and creatures of ice and burning tinsel, loam-dwarfs and pepper-elves, Tik-tok, Ruggedo, St. Nicholas with a self-made snow flurry blowing on before him, Bluebeard with whiskers like acetylene flame, and sulphur clouds from which green fire snouts protruded, and, in scaly and gigantic serpentine, a dragon with a furnace in its belly reeled out the door with a scream, a tick, a bellow, a silence, a rush, a wind.†   (source)
  • At one end of the sheet protruded a mass of pale strawish hair, and at the other a crinkled yellow foot.†   (source)
  • As for lunch, he pressed his hand against the protruding bundle under his jacket.   (source)
    protruding = sticking out
  • The eyes, protruding above the flat duckbill, were gentle and soft like a cow's.†   (source)
  • Over Nobu's shoulder I could see the eaves of the inn protruding above the foliage.†   (source)
  • Its walls appeared to be made of some silvery metal, their surfaces broken up by small protrusions maybe an inch high, each ending in a black hole.†   (source)
    protrusions = things that stick out
  • But he had not had time to conceal himself; his head and shoulders still protruded over the tabletop.†   (source)
    protruded = stuck out
  • because moments later only the very top of the head—the eyes and nostrils—protruded above the surface.†   (source)
  • The adult bent her head low to the ground and waited, unmoving, while the baby stood up on its hind legs, resting its front legs on the mother's jaw, and ate the branches that protruded from the side of the mother's mouth.†   (source)
  • As his eyes adjusted, Gennaro could now see that they were in some kind of an enormous underground structure but it was man-made—there were seams of poured concrete, and the nubs of protruding steel rods.†   (source)
    protruding = sticking out
  • When viewed up close like this, with his jaw protruding toward me, he looked more like an animal than a human.†   (source)
  • To see the smooth skin of his face splotched red, and his arms protruding from rolled-up shirtsleeves, I thought at once of Yasuda-san on that night at the Tatematsu Teahouse.†   (source)
  • In the few days since returning to Kyoto, I'd tried not to imagine what he must have seen: the Minister with his pants undone, me with my bare legs protruding from my disordered kimono ...When the mistress left the room, the sound of the door closing behind her was like a sword being drawn from its sheath.†   (source)
  • A perfectly rounded protrusion or growth, maybe four inches in diameter, glowing bright orange.†   (source)
  • They could just see the tip of her nose because it caused the veil to protrude slightly.†   (source)
  • Now black mandibles protruded from her mouth like tusks.†   (source)
  • Johanna rubs her hand over her protruding belly.†   (source)
  • And sure enough, they now saw a tiny fist on a long spring protruding from the end of the telescope.†   (source)
  • Protruding from his back were wings made of leafy branches.†   (source)
  • His tongue, swelled and dead-looking, protruded over his bottom lip.†   (source)
  • Curly blond hair protruded from under a stylish knit wool hat.†   (source)
  • Most of it was wound around his hand; eight or ten inches of it protruded.†   (source)
  • I brought the raft as close to the lifeboat as the protruding tips of the oars would allow.†   (source)
  • They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.†   (source)
  • He reached into his tunic, brought out a sheath with a black-ridged handle protruding from it.†   (source)
  • There are larger lumps protruding from the lungs in various places—the tumors.†   (source)
  • Sparks flew as the electronic wings scraped a protruding pipe.†   (source)
  • The bathroom wasn't large, and plumbing fixtures protruded everywhere.†   (source)
  • Beneath Mammy's bed, Laila could see the corner of Ahmad's shoe box protruding.†   (source)
  • But hair and spikes were not the only things protruding from the Griever's body.†   (source)
  • The top of the robot's head now protruded through the open launch doors in the hangar ceiling.†   (source)
  • A pair of giant gargoyle knockers protruded at chest level, and Mae went for the easy gag.†   (source)
  • No neck, its head sloped so that its lower jaw protrudes farther out than its upper.†   (source)
  • The protruding part was obliquely triangular.†   (source)
  • Feebly, with his paws, Alaric clawed at the hilt of the knife protruding from his chest.†   (source)
  • Durza looked down with shock at the blade protruding from his breast.†   (source)
  • Now only the accused pair's torsos protruded from the ground.†   (source)
  • The wire itself had razor-sharp protrusions as well as trip flares planted throughout.†   (source)
  • The toes of his massive dancing slippers were cut away so that his snakes could protrude.†   (source)
  • Blood-streaked bones protruded from the ends of all the digits save the thumb.†   (source)
  • His body was drenched in blood ....huge shards of glass protruding from his flesh in all directions.†   (source)
  • Where the hilt of the sword protruded from the tree, a blue stain appeared.†   (source)
  • Pigwidgeon hooted happily, his head protruding over Ron's fist.†   (source)
  • Underneath each dome, a multibarreled gun protrudes.†   (source)
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