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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 tricolour flag floating superbly from the mizzen.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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 Wilson, Harry Leon

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

On either side there were jutting rocks and old pine stumps.

From Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. by Leonard, Nellie Mabel