jut
Americanverb (used without object)
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juts,
present (3rd person singular)
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jutted,
past participle, past
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jutting
present participle
noun
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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jutsimple
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jutssimple
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have juttedperfect
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has juttedperfect
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am juttingprogressive
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are juttingprogressive
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is juttingprogressive
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have been juttingperfect progressive
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has been juttingperfect progressive
Past
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juttedsimple
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had juttedperfect
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was juttingprogressive
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were juttingprogressive
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had been juttingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of jut
First recorded in 1555–65; variant of jet 1
Explanation
When something juts, it extends outward. Your nose juts out from your face, just as your ears jut from your head. If you’re feeling determined, you might jut out your chin. The word jut applies to anything sticking out. Anything that goes beyond the main line of something juts out, like a rock on a coastline or a bump on a log. If you walk into a room with your chin jutting out, people better watch out because you mean business.
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Example Sentences
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The domes of mosques jut into the air alongside church spires.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
“Let me jut put it this way: I am not happy with Mexico,” Trump said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Four massive concrete slabs jut into the room at second-story level, a move that is meant to celebrate structure—the museum’s director calls them “internal flying buttresses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
In particular, they studied disruptions in the pedestal called ballooning instabilities: bulges of plasma that jut out, like the end of a long balloon when squeezed.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
When she said that she’d jut out her chin.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
She looks up, eyes following every square inch of the structure until the point where it juts past the clouds and into the dark atmosphere above, beyond where she can see.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
To cross into Ceuta, many swam around a small border barrier that juts out into the Mediterranean.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Suoyuwan park in Dalian, which juts out of north-eastern China into the Yellow Sea, has stunning views of one of China's largest shipyards, and is a place to gather and be merry.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
The herd was small, and stayed at the top of the peninsula, where a long strip of land juts into the water between Tomales Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
From the outside it looked like an oversized cottage, all wood and peaks and log pillars holding up odd angles and juts.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
The ferry had tilted backwards, its stern sinking into the sea bed while its bow jutted into the sky like a blade.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
The agents and their cars had blocked one southern lane on Vineyard Avenue and jutted into a second.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025
He often wore wire-rimmed glasses, and his jaw jutted forward, as if clenched.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
Two more horns jutted out from above its eyes.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 20, 2024
Here and there, spires of rock jutted up like exclamation points.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The ornate stone balconies of the decaying colonial townhouses jutting above your head are liable to collapse at any moment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
Most of the displaced are now sardined in the city’s quaint Old Quarter, which lies on a promontory jutting out of Tyre’s northernmost tip and is excluded from the evacuation order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
People often collect water for cooking from roadside springs and drainage pipes jutting from the hillsides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
As soon as I saw the rotten pilings jutting out of the water, the events of last April tumbled forward in my mind and my stomach lurched.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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