Both Uses
protrude
in
Paul's Case
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- The men on the steps—all in their shirt sleeves, their vests unbuttoned—sat with their legs well apart, their stomachs comfortably protruding, and talked of the prices of things, or told anecdotes of the sagacity of their various chiefs and overlords.†
protruding = sticking out
- The snow was whirling in curling eddies above the white bottom lands, and the drifts lay already deep in the fields and along the fences, while here and there the long dead grass and dried weed stalks protruded black above it.†
*protruded = stuck out
Definitions:
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(1)
(protrude) to stick out from
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)