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sticking out

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

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Denmark (also called "Norway") is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane. Dave Barry

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless. Charles Bukowski

No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off? Kyan Douglas

She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail. Suzanne Collins

If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut

A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth. Ibo Proverb

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