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  • As for lunch, he pressed his hand against the protruding bundle under his jacket.   (source)
    protruding = sticking out
  • Finally, his last foreleg protruded from her mouth as his headless, heartless lower body copulated in perfect rhyme.†   (source)
  • To her right, a book protruded like a bone.†   (source)
  • He was a Tajik, a lanky, dark man with a weather-beaten face, narrow shoulders, and a long neck punctuated by a protruding Adam's apple that only peeked from behind his beard when he turned his head.†   (source)
  • After a week, Dana Matherson's nose was still slightly purple and puffy, though it definitely wasn't protruding from the center of his forehead, as Garrett had claimed.†   (source)
  • Its wings were narrow and mounted high on the fuselage, and its delicate bomb bay doors protruded slightly from the bottom of the plane.†   (source)
  • Wayne Westerberg's muddy sneakers protrude from the maw of the combine, as if the machine were in the process of swallowing him whole, an overgrown metal reptile digesting its prey.†   (source)
  • She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side.†   (source)
  • Judge Ford noticed a flask protruding from the back pocket of his uniform, but his breath smelled of peppermint.†   (source)
  • Mr. Granger ran his tongue around his teeth, making his lips protrude in odd half circles, then he turned from Uncle Hammer to Papa.†   (source)
  • The empty coffee can they used for a spreader protruded from a slit in the topmost sack.†   (source)
  • Just a few weeks earlier, the police had discovered a woman passed out at the local car wash, a bag of heroin and a spoon in the passenger seat, the needle still protruding from her arm.†   (source)
  • Her fingers touched a protruding point and a circular lid sprang open.†   (source)
  • She called my parents and told them about my F." The letter ended with a reminder about a "neat spell," drawings of knives and vampire teeth, mushrooms, and a caricature of Mrs. R. lying in a pool of blood, butcher knives protruding from her chest.†   (source)
  • Wicked instrument-tipped appendages protruded from its body like arms: a saw blade, a set of shears, long rods whose purpose could only be guessed.†   (source)
  • And the drug game was everywhere, with a gun handle protruding from the top of every tenth teenager's waistline.†   (source)
  • Two joysticks protruded from its control panel, one yellow and one blue.†   (source)
  • Bone protruded through skin and there was bleeding.†   (source)
  • Children looked at Eddie-who, with his protruding lower jaw, always seemed to be grinning, like a dolphin-and they trusted him.†   (source)
  • But then he noted the shaft protruding from the cruciform was prismatic and triangular.†   (source)
  • He was kneeling beside the coffee table, and he was gagging and sputtering on a foot-long, purple, slimy thing that was protruding from his mouth.†   (source)
  • The lights protrude from the wall, so directly beneath each one is a slit of shadow.†   (source)
  • So this was the Whisperer: an oversized metal armchair with a blue helmet bolted to the seatback, and another helmet (this one red) protruding into empty air behind it.†   (source)
  • He had a long neck and a protruding Adam's apple.†   (source)
  • Muldoon slid the trouser cuff up and saw the pulpy flesh beneath, the dull white splinters of protruding bone.†   (source)
  • It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side.†   (source)
  • I stare down at the dead body of a soldier clad in military black, a knife still protruding from his chest.†   (source)
  • The Baby Jesus had an erection; its protrusion was visible in spite of the tightly bound layers of his swaddling clothes.†   (source)
  • Maniac finally yelled, and snatched the two red gun barrels protruding from the slots.†   (source)
  • Annemarie could see it protruding from Mr. Rosen's pocket when he returned to the room and sat down again.†   (source)
  • He opened his green eyes wider and gave us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn't completely goofy.†   (source)
  • An Yi and I leaned forward to hear the boy with protruding ears in the row in front of us.†   (source)
  • The sharp thing seemed to be protruding and snagging on his shirt.†   (source)
  • Looking over at him, I notice his flushed cheeks and rabbity eyes, his droopy brown mustache and bristly eyebrows, the stomach that protrudes from the bottom of his vest like a barely hidden balloon.†   (source)
  • There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams.†   (source)
  • It's ugly, all right, a big rodent with a fuzz of mottled gray fur and two wicked-looking gnawing teeth protruding over its lower lip.†   (source)
  • Their noses and jaws protruded awkwardly from their heads, their lips twisted into perpetual grimaces.†   (source)
  • His stomach protruded and the water dried on it.†   (source)
  • Fayge's wedding dress caught on a protruding nail.†   (source)
  • She stares somewhere just below the camera, crying, her face misshapen and barely recognizable, her nostrils inflamed and ringed with mucus; her lips—swollen to nearly twice their normal size—are surrounded by a deep, dark ring of chapped skin; her tongue is thick and protrudes from her mouth.†   (source)
  • Mr. Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.†   (source)
  • Only the crest of the Giant's face was still visible, and it was white bone, like limestone protruding from a discouraged, withering mountain.†   (source)
  • I switched it on —and almost immediately dropped it, because in the glow I'd caught sight of a man's hand protruding between two chunks of concrete.†   (source)
  • His face is fat and red, the skin on either side of his eyes protruding and puffy, like he is a mound of dough in the middle of rising.†   (source)
  • His narrow bristled head and stringy neck protruded from the blankets he'd wrapped around himself; he looked like a damaged bird of prey in a filthy nest.†   (source)
  • The infrared filter was messing with his depth perception and he'd whacked his head on two protruding U-bends so far.†   (source)
  • The protruding skis were also black.†   (source)
  • A circle of red skin protruded from his arm, the same exact size as—my stomach dropped—a cigar.†   (source)
  • Wrinkled skin was stretched taut over protruding cheekbones.†   (source)
  • With a puff of feathers, the crow fell over backward, the arrow protruding from its chest.†   (source)
  • Its forelegs seem to turn into wings, like a bat's, with a single protruding claw at the wing's leading edge.†   (source)
  • It protrudes six inches out through his back, and is quickly pulled free.†   (source)
  • His rib cage had been splintered so thoroughly that shards of bone protruded from his flesh.†   (source)
  • "—Your walks, he says here, not mine or ours, even though the walks were the responsibility of his own landscape department—"In some places there are cobbles or small boulders protruding from the surface, upon which no lady, with Summer shoes, can step without pain.†   (source)
  • Your face still has a question protruding from it.†   (source)
  • When the heat got hot, she might walk around the house naked or wrapped in a sheet, her belly protruding like a winning watermelon.†   (source)
  • And with that he set cup and saucer on his own protruding paunch.†   (source)
  • She had the adorable habit of letting the pink tip of her tongue protrude from her full, delectable lips while she concentrated.†   (source)
  • Protruding from his back were wings made of leafy branches.†   (source)
  • Fisheye turns toward it for a moment and its high, protruding bridge slides off into the water.†   (source)
  • Even from several feet away, I can make out the protrusion of the pipe in his jacket pocket.†   (source)
  • It hurt so deep I didn't even feel the fracture in my jaw, the displacement which would later give me a disjointed, lopsided and protruding chin.†   (source)
  • Every Thursday morning, just when Father Mulligan was due to arrive, Baby Kochamma force-bathed a poor village child at the well with hard red soap that hurt its protruding ribs.†   (source)
  • No limbs protruded from the trunk until it came close to the ceiling, and then the branches burst out into a canopy that covered the roof.†   (source)
  • His wrists bore wide metal cuffs; she could see the bone handle of a knife protruding from the left one.†   (source)
  • Protruding about fifty feet into the lake was a dock, and Mack could barely make out three canoes tied at intervals along its course.†   (source)
  • I followed her line of sight and saw the arm protruding from under several heavy logs.†   (source)
  • "I am hungry," the Baron rumbled, and he rubbed his protruding lips with a beringed hand, stared down at Feyd-Rautha through fat-enfolded eyes.†   (source)
  • From under his shorts protrude white legs into street stockings and shoes.†   (source)
  • A length of plastic tubing protruded from each side of Colton's abdomen.†   (source)
  • The skin had split open, and from the laceration of the scalp a tiny strand of pink brain material protruded.†   (source)
  • I hated coming downstairs sweaty-handed and curious every Saturday night and having some senior introduce me to her aunt's best friend's son and finding some pale, mushroomy fellow with protruding ears or buck teeth or a bad leg.†   (source)
  • After my business was taken care of, I found a seat between two protruding roots of a black walnut tree and leaned back on its trunk.†   (source)
  • You are facially symmetrical, but suffer from slightly protruding ears.†   (source)
  • He was kicking the pony's protruding ribs, hurrying, I imagined, to get to work on some rocky, infertile piece of local farmland so his children could have at least one meal today.†   (source)
  • Then came the tigers and bears, the two hippos who were inside for the season, and the eight-ton bull elephant, the only part of which we could see being the long trunk protruding from the doorway of his barn.†   (source)
  • "They look high," I said, eying the protruding stiletto.†   (source)
  • The mother was a pretty young woman with wisps of blond hair protruding from under her roosarie.†   (source)
  • At the end of it, a fingerlike protrusion wiggles and grasps.†   (source)
  • Along the wall of the staging area was a row of stainless-steel cabinets with rubber gloves protruding into them.†   (source)
  • "Me and Robert are safe," Phoebe said, her lower lip protruding slightly, as it did when she got angry.†   (source)
  • One 11-year-old boy, for example, hanged himself inside his house and when found he was already unconscious and his tongue protruding.†   (source)
  • He glared at the bits of steel with protruding eyes, and breathed hard.†   (source)
  • Bones and knobs, every bump of her spine protruding and visible.†   (source)
  • The child's feet protruded from the covering: tiny green sneakers, almost new, white shoestrings tied neatly, pale green socks bunched at the ankles.†   (source)
  • Deets noticed the handle of the lance protruding from his side.†   (source)
  • They came out of the park at 90th Street, a band of hippies on a candlelight march, with flutes, drums and tambourines, about fifty chanting people, and a man with a needle stuck in his protruding tongue, and a woman with a snake around her neck, and a haze of pungent smoke that had the whiff of some congenial misdemeanor, and there were kids walking along and babies in backpacks and slings, and the marchers chanted a sort of hummed syllable, a thing with a twang, it sounded to me like…†   (source)
  • Placing her lying on her back with the feet closed, one should hold in place in a small forceps that which protrudes and appears to be larger and cut it back with a scalpel.†   (source)
  • It was like this protrusion around my midsection was a scarlet letter, a badge of shame that showed I was marked for a life of failure and misery because I had sinned.†   (source)
  • His lower left leg was crushed, and a bone protruded through his calf muscle from a compound fracture.†   (source)
  • A half-inch tube protruded five and a half inches out the top.†   (source)
  • A hair-thin wire protrudes from one end.†   (source)
  • My lungs have refilled with air, but every breath I take feels like I've got a knife protruding from my back.†   (source)
  • We could see that the machine-gun muzzle still protruding through its firing slit was bent—probably from overheating as it killed American boys.†   (source)
  • Uaaxee returned with a hamper from which protruded a chicken wing as big as a turkey.†   (source)
  • It arrived on an enormous wooden tray, scented and gleaming, with a sprig of parsley in its mouth and a carrot protruding from its rump, the whole reposing on a bed of tomatoes.†   (source)
  • Aunt was plump, and her teeth were like jagged stones protruding from a karst cave.†   (source)
  • The girl's lips were already purplish-blue, and her tongue protruded sideways from them.†   (source)
  • From his shoulder blades jutted a weird pair of knobby protrusions, like the stems of aborted wings: the only outward clue that this twisted man bore any relation to an ymbryne.†   (source)
  • Hers was unusually prominent, evoking the long digestive tract that ended there with a slight protrusion.†   (source)
  • They're both very skinny, but in a pale, bony way, and have the same slightly protruding teeth.†   (source)
  • His toes, protruding from sandals, glowed like polished ebony.†   (source)
  • A large ring of masquerade masks circled a huge globe, six feet in diameter, cut in half and hung to give the appearance it protruded from the wall.†   (source)
  • He was a big man, over six feet tall with a protruding midsection that he hid well under his black robe.†   (source)
  • The object of Baltazar's aim was a clay pot adorned with protruding points which gave it the appearance of a seven-pointed star.†   (source)
  • A pair of eyes peered down through lenses as thick as the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, eyes protruding, luminous and veined, like an old biology specimen preserved in alcohol.†   (source)
  • In May 1775, hearing the news of Lexington and Concord, he had set off on foot with little more than the clothes on his back, his fife protruding from a front pocket.†   (source)
  • The gleaming Mercedes and Land Rovers of the ruling class still hurtled past babies with protruding empty bellies.†   (source)
  • As rapidly as he had accelerated, he slowed down, his single headlight beam picking up the new obstruction protruding on the road.†   (source)
  • Over the years, the timbers have buckled and bowed, so that the front of the building protrudes now like the rounded bellies of the men who take too much ale there.†   (source)
  • Harry looked at Annie's protruding belly and shook his head and smiled.†   (source)
  • She studied his image, his hands tied above his head, his eyes rolled heavenward, arrows protruding from his chest and sides, and felt a great sympathy for him.†   (source)
  • Then the sound would come back, and I would see the Seeker's obstinate face in my head, her protruding eyes scouring the blank desert for some sign of humans.†   (source)
  • Cora said, sitting on the steps with her hands resting on her protruding stomach.†   (source)
  • She slipped it into the belt of her skirt, leaving only the dark handle protruding.†   (source)
  • Instead of normal faucets, there were six small silver levers protruding from the marble wall.†   (source)
  • The coil protruded from a pile of junk.†   (source)
  • The head began to shrink and flatten, teeth protruding from its mouth as if they couldn't fit inside its head anymore.†   (source)
  • At the word hungry a greenish light was kindled in Gollum's pale eyes, and they seemed to protrude further than ever from his thin sickly face.†   (source)
  • "McLean, you load," Cain Gilbreath said, his eighteen-inch neck protruding from his gray cotton uniform shirt.†   (source)
  • When they saw the sharp protruding teeth, they were sure Konoma was a cannibal.†   (source)
  • A line of tired soldiers about to be slain by the beam of sunlight that animated the dust lay upon their packs and duffels, rifles and bayonets protruding from their midst like stakes in a vineyard.†   (source)
  • Just above the feet there were knees, and from the knees sharp, forward-aimed spikes protruded.†   (source)
  • One arrow protruded from the dragon's left eye, and the black shafts of two others stuck out from the mouth.†   (source)
  • Her lips were full and protruded ever so slightly, and even in the standard-issue orange jumpsuit, I could see that her body was magnificent.†   (source)
  • At some point, someone added a small, protruding shed room off the southwest corner of the house.†   (source)
  • On the sides of steep slopes they could see trailing arbutus and wolfsbane among the stacked slate and other protrusions of rocks.†   (source)
  • Fangs protruded from his mouth.†   (source)
  • A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear's protruding slightly more than the other.†   (source)
  • He nodded at Robert, but he was involved with other things: memories and shifting sounds heard in the night, diamond patterns, black on white; the energy of the designs spiraled deep, then protruded suddenly into three-dimensional summits, their depth and height dizzy and shifting with the eye.†   (source)
  • I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing; I had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach.†   (source)
  • Edgar's pale, protruding eyes shifted to Florence, frankly listening, and Eli Blaustein hovering nearby, interested.†   (source)
  • Moonlight caught his protruding cheekbones and cast the hollows beneath into shadow.†   (source)
  • From shrubbery over on the right-hand side and possibly in the direction the rider would be heading, protruded a single, painstakingly engraved, black feather.†   (source)
  • He spoke the last in Polish, grinning, revealing pink gums in which the stubs of three or four teeth protruded like raw white slivers.†   (source)
  • The third child is HELEN, six and a half years old, quite unkempt, in body a vivacious little person with a fine head, attractive, but noticeably blind, one eye larger and protruding; her gestures are abrupt, insistent, lacking in human restraint, and her face never smiles.†   (source)
  • But I knew what Miss Eck-hart's was, for it protruded itself well enough into the story.†   (source)
  • As he moved to a big chair she saw that his eyes were on her protruding stomach.†   (source)
  • He hooked his thumbs around his suspenders and stood, jaw protruding, waiting.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha sat there lost in thought, his eyes were rigidly focused towards a very distant target, the tip of his tongue was protruding a little between the teeth, he seemed not to breathe.†   (source)
  • The tip of a small crystal and two tiny wires protruded through the broken chitin of its back.†   (source)
  • He wore a pale green shirt with a thin black stripe in it and blue galluses and his trousers cut across a protruding stomach that he pressed tenderly from time to time with his big flat thumb.†   (source)
  • He was holding the hoe with both hands across his body, the end of the handle protruding about six inches from his right fist.†   (source)
  • Alexander Alexandrovich's upper lip with its little cropped mustache protruded above the lower lip in just the same way as his butterfly tie stuck out from his neck.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile CHAPUYS and his ATTENDANT have gone behind screen, beneath which their legs protrude clearly) STEWARD (Conspiratorially) Sir, Sir Thomas doesn't talk about it.†   (source)
  • …swaying; hanging blue-throated men with turned-up, clam-flesh eyes, and creatures of ice and burning tinsel, loam-dwarfs and pepper-elves, Tik-tok, Ruggedo, St. Nicholas with a self-made snow flurry blowing on before him, Bluebeard with whiskers like acetylene flame, and sulphur clouds from which green fire snouts protruded, and, in scaly and gigantic serpentine, a dragon with a furnace in its belly reeled out the door with a scream, a tick, a bellow, a silence, a rush, a wind.†   (source)
  • At one end of the sheet protruded a mass of pale strawish hair, and at the other a crinkled yellow foot.†   (source)
  • She stood there, her hands folded across her stomach, a little protruding pot of tummy.†   (source)
  • It was silver and bronze, with the monstrous face of Medusa protruding from the center.†   (source)
  • They could just see the tip of her nose because it caused the veil to protrude slightly.†   (source)
  • Johanna rubs her hand over her protruding belly.†   (source)
  • And sure enough, they now saw a tiny fist on a long spring protruding from the end of the telescope.†   (source)
  • Curly blond hair protruded from under a stylish knit wool hat.†   (source)
  • I brought the raft as close to the lifeboat as the protruding tips of the oars would allow.†   (source)
  • He reached into his tunic, brought out a sheath with a black-ridged handle protruding from it.†   (source)
  • He staggered back, the end of the strut protruding from his chest.†   (source)
  • The bathroom wasn't large, and plumbing fixtures protruded everywhere.†   (source)
  • Two identity booklets protruded from the inside pocket.†   (source)
  • Beneath Mammy's bed, Laila could see the corner of Ahmad's shoe box protruding.†   (source)
  • But hair and spikes were not the only things protruding from the Griever's body.†   (source)
  • Most of it was wound around his hand; eight or ten inches of it protruded.†   (source)
  • A pair of giant gargoyle knockers protruded at chest level, and Mae went for the easy gag.†   (source)
  • Sparks flew as the electronic wings scraped a protruding pipe.†   (source)
  • Strangely, the underside of the wig had a wire protruding from it.†   (source)
  • The eyes, protruding above the flat duckbill, were gentle and soft like a cow's.†   (source)
  • He slammed his feet into one of the orange bulbs protruding from the middle of the monster's chest.†   (source)
  • No neck, its head sloped so that its lower jaw protrudes farther out than its upper.†   (source)
  • The protruding part was obliquely triangular.†   (source)
  • The wire itself had razor-sharp protrusions as well as trip flares planted throughout.†   (source)
  • Blood-streaked bones protruded from the ends of all the digits save the thumb.†   (source)
  • Durza looked down with shock at the blade protruding from his breast.†   (source)
  • The top of the robot's head now protruded through the open launch doors in the hangar ceiling.†   (source)
  • We looked over the bank to where the pipe protruded.†   (source)
  • Underneath each dome, a multibarreled gun protrudes.†   (source)
  • His small face protruded from over the collar, looking almost painfully excited.†   (source)
  • Feebly, with his paws, Alaric clawed at the hilt of the knife protruding from his chest.†   (source)
  • We come to a flat spot, a large knoll protruding from the side of the mountain.†   (source)
  • Protruding from the rump of this strange creation was a long and floppy tail with a puff on the end.†   (source)
  • I squint harder and realize the fingers no longer protrude from it.†   (source)
  • Now only the accused pair's torsos protruded from the ground.†   (source)
  • Where the hilt of the sword protruded from the tree, a blue stain appeared.†   (source)
  • They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.†   (source)
  • Everyone called me Chin because of my protruding jawbone.†   (source)
  • She wore a set of protruding false teeth cut from the yellow rind of a sweetlime.†   (source)
  • Pigwidgeon hooted happily, his head protruding over Ron's fist.†   (source)
  • Her belly button protruded from her satiated satin stomach like a domed monument on a hill.†   (source)
  • He touched the nezhoni scarf at her forehead where it protruded from her stillsuit cap.†   (source)
  • Across his legs lay the giant, the hilt of Jace's blade protruding from his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Pale, almost translucent skin stretched over protruding ribs and knobby joints.†   (source)
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