All 13 Uses
protrude
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
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- But by the time I was nine, the bones in her face had begun to protrude, and she never gained weight again afterward.
p. 11.2protrude = stick out
- Her teeth protruded so badly that her lips didn't quite cover them, and the narrowness of her head made me wonder if she'd been pressed between two boards as a baby.
p. 29.3protruded = stuck out
- It was her boyfriend's pale hand protruding from his sleeve.
p. 87.9protruding = sticking out
- Everything drooped from her, even her protruding nipples that hung like fingertips.
p. 94.2
- At one point I felt a moment of panic when I saw a naked shoulder protruding from his bathrobe.
p. 262.9
- When he returned to the room, he took off his robe at once and walked around completely naked toweling his hair, with his little round belly protruding below his chest and a great patch of hair beneath it.†
p. 304.9
- To see the smooth skin of his face splotched red, and his arms protruding from rolled-up shirtsleeves, I thought at once of Yasuda-san on that night at the Tatematsu Teahouse.†
p. 309.5
- She was startled when she first saw me—because of the way my cheekbones protruded, she said.
p. 358.4protruded = stuck out
- He kept his chin tucked against his breastbone as though he couldn't quite hold up his head, and he had a peculiar lower jaw that protruded so that his breath seemed to blow right up his nose.
p. 360.6
- Over Nobu's shoulder I could see the eaves of the inn protruding above the foliage.†
p. 398.3protruding = sticking out
- When viewed up close like this, with his jaw protruding toward me, he looked more like an animal than a human.†
p. 403.5
- He'd had holes in both of his socks, I remembered; through one a slender big toe had protruded, with the nail neatly groomed.
p. 409.3 *protruded = stuck out
- In the few days since returning to Kyoto, I'd tried not to imagine what he must have seen: the Minister with his pants undone, me with my bare legs protruding from my disordered kimono ...When the mistress left the room, the sound of the door closing behind her was like a sword being drawn from its sheath.†
p. 411.5protruding = sticking out
Definitions:
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(1)
(protrude) to stick out from
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)