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Definition
to stick out from
- His wrists bore wide metal cuffs; she could see the bone handle of a knife protruding from the left one.Chapter 3 (36% in)
- Across his legs lay the giant, the hilt of Jace's blade protruding from his shoulder.Chapter 6 (62% in)
- Through the seeping skin, bones protruded—not new white bones, but bones that looked as if they had been in the earth a thousand years, black and cracked and filthy.Chapter 19 (14% in)
- He wore a waist sheath on his thick belt and the hilt of a long sword protruded from the top of it.Chapter 22 (98% in)
- Feebly, with his paws, Alaric clawed at the hilt of the knife protruding from his chest.Chapter 23 (80% in)
- A hand protruded from beneath the fabric's edge; it was tipped with claws.Chapter 23 (95% in)
There are no more uses of "protrude" in City of Bones.
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