All 7 Uses
jut
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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- This thought was of a broken-off piling which had jutted from the sand at Revere Beach.†
Chpt 1
- His mother and father had taken him to Revere Beach often when he was a kid, and he had always insisted that they spread their blanket where he could keep an eye on that piling, which looked to him like the single jutting fang of a buried monster.†
Chpt 1
- A steel return lever, dull with disuse, jutted to one side like a hitchhiker's thumb.†
Chpt 1
- Few of the whites who dared to venture into Bourka country had ever returned, but those who did had brought back fabulous tales of a woman's face jutting from the side of a tall, crumbling mesa, a merciless face with a gaping mouth and a huge ruby set in her stone forehead.†
Chpt 2
- Now the light in the room did not look dull; it looked marvellously pure, marvellously full of its own gray and eldritch charm; he could imagine cranes half-glimpsed in gunmetal mist standing in one-legged silence beside upland lakes in that light, could imagine the mica flecks in rocks jutting from spring grasses in upland meadows shining with the shaggy glow of glazed window-glass in that light, could imagine elves shucking their busy selves off to work in lines under the dewsoaked leaves of early ivy in that light ....Oh BOY are you stoned, Paul thought, and giggled faintly.†
Chpt 2
- It had not been designed to keep its balance as it passed over jutting rocks, fallen logs, or the heads of state troopers.†
Chpt 3 *
- This time when he pushed the tongue there was a flat click from inside the lock and the jut of metal slid a quarter of an inch into the door.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(jut) to stick out; or a part that sticks out
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning to rare to warrant focus