are protruding
- present progressive of protrude.
Example Sentences
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Guiding a visitor along the 22-foot-high, 406-foot-long curtain of glass fronting the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit hall, Caitlin Colleary spots a familiar face — one from which three large horns are protruding.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
Her eyes are sunken, bones are protruding and her skin is wrinkled and pale.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022
Everyone is holding a phone or a digital camera or an iPad, so their hands are protruding towards the peloton and that is another few inches take-up.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2012
Twice, Hitchcock gives us the foreshortened camera angle with the kid looking down the length of the corpse, and it looks as if the great big feet are protruding from his little frame.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2012
Fā′cially.—Facial angle, in craniometry, the angle formed by lines drawn to show to what extent the jaws are protruding and the forehead receding.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
