jut
verb (used without object)
to extend beyond the main body or line; project; protrude (often followed byout ).
were jutting
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past progressiveof jut.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, BBC Radio Manchester found the window-height bins - designed so drivers do not have to leave their vehicles - were jutting out into the road, making it difficult for lorries to get past.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2017
Her great yellow bowsprit and white-winged figure-head were jutting out from the cluster of palm-trees, while high above them towered three immense masts, with the tricolor flag floating superbly from the mizzen.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
Their backs were jutting beams carried but little beyond the fronts and their stout-appearing walls were revealed to be fragile contrivances of button-lath and thin plaster.
From Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson
On either side there were jutting rocks and old pine stumps.
From Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. by Nellie Mabel Leonard
Over the cell were jutting rocks, which threw down as the sun was over them, strange shadows, making the most mysterious letters.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore
