protruding

American  

[proh-troo-ding, pruh-] / proʊˈtru dɪŋ, prə- /

adjective

1. projecting outward, as from a surface.

   The driver pulled in too close to the curb and knocked over the sign with his truck’s protruding side mirror.

   The phone’s protruding camera lens is at a high risk for getting scratched.

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Other Word Forms

• nonprotruding adjective
• unprotruding adjective

Etymology

Origin of protruding

protrud(e) ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

There’s colored contacts and facial prosthetics, a protruding belly and at least an hour of makeup.

From Los Angeles Times

As a result, it remains a ruin—a mostly standing skeleton with steel rebar protruding from mangled concrete walls.

From The Wall Street Journal

If the fish-trap hypothesis is the right one, then the lines of protruding monoliths would have also supported a "net" made of sticks and branches to catch fish as the tide retreated.

From BBC

The complex’s opaque tower is clad in cream-colored concrete panels, stepping rhythmically with protruding windows that drift off-center.

From Los Angeles Times

Hidden behind each protruding eye are two long, spiraled optic nerves -- a configuration not documented in any other lizard species.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• arresting
• conspicuous
• pertinent
• weighty