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Meanings of protuberant in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bulging"
Examples for "bulging"
1
I blink and it's back, bulging just like the innocent right one.
2
Books in his already bulging shelves were certainly not for display only.
3
Others are hurrying from the reservoir with silk parcels bulging with water.
4
She had a bulging forehead; her brown eyes were tunnelled underneath it.
5
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1
It was new, a bulbous silver Audi that looked futuristic and fast.
2
Suppose you have before you the bulbous root of the lily plant.
3
The nose had become bulbous and spongy, the eyes watery and weak.
4
The object in the water looked like a tire, shiny and bulbous-
5
The sky was a soft blue, bulbous with little puffs of cloud.
1
The solid cover of big-bellied clouds promised a long day of it.
2
It bellied away, dim in the night, upon the stiff northerly breeze.
3
The next instant the side wall bellied outward and then burst asunder.
4
You take a big, round-bellied water-bottle and stand it on the window-sill.
5
They all stopped and watched for a short time a white-bellied Nut-hatch.
1
It was a heavy, bulgy, disreputable-looking umbrella with a battered curved handle.
2
The white was bulgy, membranous, laced with red veins that pulsed steadily.
3
Or keep walking to Waterfall Canyon for big pockets on bulgy faces.
4
Everybody comes to the tee these days with bulgy biceps and washboard abs.
5
The rest were bulgy-muscled misfits, a large proportion of them psychotics.
1
The great bellying sails glittered with painted dragons and eagles and sun-bursts.
2
Then there was complete silence, and even the bellying canvas seemed still.
3
OK, Nick said, turning his chair and bellying back up to his keyboard.
4
Ben forced himself to think about the wind bellying the sail.
5
A second glimpses a bellying sail: straightway the ocean path beckons to him.
Usage of protuberant in English
1
Such are the protuberant eyeballs, the prominent cheek-bones, the square, protruding chin.
2
For ways that was kittensome they were moderately active and abnormally protuberant.
3
Banneth's face had a male jawline, a blunt protuberant blade of bone.
4
Right fundus examination revealed optic disc edema and protuberant nasal fundus.
5
Such faces are still more embryonic when the forehead and eyes are protuberant.
6
The protuberant or bulging lower lip is supposed to signify sensuality.
7
He pulled back Stanley's shirt-tails to reveal Stanley's soft, protuberant stomach.
8
His forehead and protuberant white eyeballs were soon glistening nervously again.
9
Huge slabs tipped with protuberant suggestions of amputated limbs, outlined in frozen fat.
10
She had white hair, iron-gray eyebrows, and protuberant eyes; her looks were unusually expressive.
11
They were violet in colour, protuberant, and malevolent beyond words.
12
The swelling was clearly outlined, but neither sharp nor protuberant.
13
His eyes were a little protuberant, his manner betokened awe.
14
He wore huge, disfiguring spectacles, and he had the protuberant lips of a negro.
15
The breast-bone is remarkably protuberant, being abruptly bowed outwards.
16
The statuette, so overflowing and protuberant, is ritually invisible.
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United Kingdom
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