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Definition
to stick out from
- Al pointed to a big nail protruding from the flat casing.Chapter 26 (23% in)
protruding = sticking out
- His upper lip was long, and since his teeth protruded, the lips stretched to cover them, for this man kept his lips closed.Chapter 2 (10% in)
- Pushing hind legs strained and slipped, boosting the shell along, and the horny head protruded as far as the neck could stretch.Chapter 3 (41% in)
- His eyeballs were heavy and protruding; the lids stretched to cover them, and the lids were raw and red.Chapter 4 (15% in)
- It was getting the long protruding curve of a crow's beak now.Chapter 4 (74% in)
- His lips, from which the big nails protruded, were thin and red.Chapter 8 (27% in)
- A sheaf of papers was held in his shirt pocket by a little fence of fountain pens and yellow pencils; and from his hip pocket protruded a notebook with metal covers.Chapter 20 (54% in)
There are no more uses of "protrude" in The Grapes of Wrath.
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