protruding

[proh-troo-ding, pruh-]

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.

Other Word Forms

• nonprotruding adjective
• unprotruding adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of protruding¹

protrud(e) ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

A 2-year-old wild donkey stumbled alongside her herd in Riverside County — a bright blue arrow protruding from her right side.

From Los Angeles Times

After weeks of the world seeing images of starving children, with distended stomachs and protruding bones, many will feel like the signs that a famine was imminent were a long time coming.

From BBC

The other banned advert was for a shirt and the model was said to be in a position that made "protruding" collarbones a "focal feature" of the advert.

From BBC

Anglers could buy fishing lures molded in the shape of a Black baby protruding from an alligator’s mouth.

From Los Angeles Times

We’d spend the first minutes observing the given artwork in silence, and then share what we noticed, what caught our eye: a protruding vein on a hand, a curled toe, an open door.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• arresting 
• conspicuous 
• pertinent 
• weighty