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Origin of outthrust1
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Example Sentences
Moving slowly forward, his outthrust hands struck a wooden panel which proved to be a door.
He seized Bart by the shoulder and Bart moved to throw him off, so that Ringg's outthrust claws raked only his forearm.
Then, with eyes flaming and legs outthrust, he stood in front of the girl, facing the worshippers.
And he advanced upon the points of his toes, shoulders hunched, and head viciously outthrust.
He was carefully investigating a lamp-post for a trace of moss when a beady-eyed urchin approached him with outthrust hand.
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