sticking out

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sticking out - extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, relieved

protrusive - thrusting outward

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He pointed to the truss of hay and said: "What are those two curious things sticking out of the hay?

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The feathered ends of a dozen arrows were sticking out of him.

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Their large-veined udders hung ponderous as sandbags, the teats sticking out like the legs of a gipsy's crock; and as each animal lingered for her turn to arrive the milk oozed forth and fell in drops to the ground.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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