protrude

How To Use protrude In A Sentence

• She was sure the apartment above had a lump which protruded upward from the floor.
• His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin. Vanity Fair
• Bent reeds, evenly spaced, protrude upwards.
• In technical language, the surface from which these fleshy threads protrude, are called ambulacral areas, and the spaces between, interambulacral areas. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
• Little protrudes in front of you, so the chest area is left clear for easy access to important equipment, and your legs don't bang and crash against the cylinders while finning.
• From the window of the doomed wretch's apartments a derrick protrudes -- a crossarm with a pulley and a rope attached. Europe Revised
• Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• Nail up a set of reference strings on the rafters that protrude the most into the attic.
• If, however, it takes place before, the male pronucleus simply remains dormant in the egg while the polar cells are being protruded, and not until after that process is concluded does it begin again to show signs of activity which result in the cell union. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity
• The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem? Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification