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• v  extend out or project in space
• v  bulge outward
• v  swell or protrude outwards
• s  extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
  his protruding ribs

• Richard Reid, a British passenger on the Boeing 767, was trying to light a fuse protruding from his shoe, witnesses say.
• Only his feet were visible, one foot protruding awkwardly through the walkway's iron railing.
• For two days no one paid it much notice until Lin, the temple caretaker, saw something odd: a ghostly, stiffened, protruding hand.

• stick out
• protrude
• jut out
• jut
• project
• start
• pop
• pop out
• bulge
• bulge out
• bug out
• come out
• pouch
• jutting
• projected
• projecting
• relieved
• sticking
• sticking out

News & Articles

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• Bail set for Trenton man who allegedly killed his girlfriend with scissors
  When police found Celeste Pernell “there was a scissors protruding from the right side of her neck,” police said.
  June 15, 2013 - Hunterdon County Democrat
• Goose lives with arrow in back
  Visitors to a Michigan park may catch glimpse of a goose that's living with an arrow in its back. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it knows about the bird at Bay City's Bigelow Park. In fact, the arrow has been protruding from the goose's back for quite some time, Saginaw TV station WNEM reported. "I was pretty amazed. He could still fly and everything else," said Randy Richards ...
  June 14, 2013 - Local 6 Orlando
• Expedition hopes to find La Salle's long lost ship in Lake Michigan
  In this October 2012 image from video provided by David J. Ruck, diver Tom Kucharsky passes timbers protruding from the bottom of Lake Michigan that were discovered by Steve Libert, head of Great Lakes Exploration Group, in 2001. On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Libert will lead a diving expedition to an underwater site in northern Lake Michigan, where archaeologists and technicians will try to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star

Quotes

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• Boris Johnson in International Herald Tribune
  Johnson, then working as a journalist, said he was taken to Aziz's ransacked villa: "And there, just by my toe, protruding from beneath a piece of dusty plywood, was the cigar case."
• Paul Hill in BBC News
  We have a team of folks working aggressively to go and make that gap filler safe if we decide it's an issue. We have a separate team looking at the effects of leaving that gap filler protruding,mission flight director Paul Hill said.
• Jarious Jackson in Canada.com
  Not that I want to remember,said Jackson, with a chuckle. "First snap. Tore a ligament in my throwing-hand thumb. The next play I dropped back (to pass) and my thumb was protruding the other way. I couldn't even feel my thumb. At the end...