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jut out

v. extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut, project]

Usage examples of "jut out".

The piers jut out into the river that begins somewhere in the western reaches of the Hills of Endless Grass.

A group of men had gathered to the porch where the lantern burned, and their faces were strong and muscled under the harsh white light, light that threw black shadows of their hats over their foreheads and eyes and made their chins seem to jut out.

From this side of the peninsula, he could see that a huge bite had been washed from the base of the volcanic cone leaving a hard lava core to jut out at an impossible angle toward a side vent that was no longer there.