All 4 Uses
jut
in
The Graveyard Book
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- Bod led Scarlett carefully up the steps, through the hill, into the jutting black masonry of the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 56.8 *
- Tombstones and statues jutted out of the side of the wall, as if a huge graveyard had been upended, and, like three wizened chimpanzees in tattered black suits that did up in the back, the Duke of Westminster, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Honorable Archibald Fitzhugh were swinging from statue to stone, dangling Bod between them as they went, tossing him from one to another, never missing him, always catching him with ease, without even looking.†
p. 79.1jutted out = stuck out
- Even from the path below Ghitlheim, even from miles away, Bod could see that all of the angles were wrong—that the walls sloped crazily, that it was every nightmare he had ever endured made into a place, like a huge mouth of jutting teeth.†
p. 82.7
- Around that corner, she thought, is a church, with a bench in front of it, and she turned a corner to see a church—much smaller than the one in her head, a sinister blocky little Gothic building of grey stone, with a jutting spire.†
p. 220.7
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