Sample Sentences for
protrude
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    She leaned over and drew a skinny black tongue protruding from Coot's mouth.  (source)
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    Her bottom plate was not in, and her upper lip protruded; from time to time she would draw her nether lip to her upper plate and carry her chin with it.  (source)
    protruded = stuck out
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    Another flash of lightning lit her face for an instant and Winnie saw an expression there of deep concentration, tip of tongue protruding,  (source)
    protruding = sticking out
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    Turning around, I saw his hands were curled around the protruding blade as if he himself had tried to pull it from his stomach.  (source)
    protruding = sticking out
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    His stomach protruded and the water dried on it.†  (source)
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    Rusted nails protrude from the walls.  (source)
    protrude = stick out
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    It protrudes six inches out through his back, and is quickly pulled free.†  (source)
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    They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    There was a shard of metal protruding from Jenkins' chest.  (source)
    protruding = sticking out
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    To her right, a book protruded like a bone.†  (source)
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    But by the time I was nine, the bones in her face had begun to protrude, and she never gained weight again afterward.  (source)
    protrude = stick out
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    A hair-thin wire protrudes from one end.†  (source)
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