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Usage examples of protrude.

As soon as the beans had protruded radicles, some to a length of less than a tenth of an inch, and others to a length of several tenths, little squares or oblongs of card were affixed to the short sloping sides of their conical tips.

The stump of a stem protruded from the amplexicaul curve at the top, as if it had been a real apple.

It is therefore not surprising that it should be inherited, at least to some extent, by plants having hypogean cotyledons, in which the hypocotyl is only slightly developed and never protrudes above the ground, and in which the arching is of course now quite useless.

He splashed across the stream and went deep into the hardwoods, where round boulders protruded from the humus like the tops of toadstools.

An ice spear had caught Lady Merlion in the back as she ran towards the Barrow, and now protruded in jagged red-tipped spikes from her belly and breast.

A jagged ivory metatarsal protruded from bloodied purplish flaps of skin.

Antonio, a stocky, elderly man with a dark, leathery face and straws of gray hair protruding from beneath a New York Yankees baseball cap, stepped off to the side of the cabin and urinated onto a patch of grass, an act mirrored by a succession of shadows who, having done their business, flowed away in different directions.

One arm was at least twelve inches longer than its mate, which was itself long in proportion to the torso, while the legs, similarly mismated and terminating in huge, flat feet that protruded laterally, caused the thing to lurch fearfully from side to side as it lumbered toward the girl.

I pointed a finger at MacDonald, then in rapid succession clutched my throat, tongue protruding, grabbed my stomach with crossed forearms, then jabbed the finger again at him, then at myself, all the while giving him a monitory stare.

But in monomania the errant faculty protrudes itself in a way that may not be denied.

If they were open now, you would see the nose of the Moonraker just protruding above the level of the wall.

There was a small puncture in the abdominal parietes, through which the whole of the intestines protruded and were constricted.

Revealing a large rearwise-of-parlor room with a Persian rug an inch thick, the visible part of the protruding floor being elegant, intricate parquetry work.

The old bombast was probably up to his protruding ears, by now, in lawsuits on behalf of half of the probies in Tijuana.

Then they saw that the calf bed was pushed out of her, hanging against her back legs, high up beneath her tail, and there was one pink hoof protruded from the prolapsed uterus.