How to Use protrusion in a Sentence

protrusion

noun

• The pain was caused by a protrusion of a disc in his lower back.
• Look for the dome-like protrusion shooting out above the anvil of the thunderstorm.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2019
• The shape has six sides at the top and five sides at the bottom, and one of the sides had a triangular protrusion.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2018
• Arakawa says these protrusions might help the eggs attach to the surface where they're laid.
  — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2018
• Now, denticles, the toothlike protrusions that cover the skin of sharks, can be added to the list.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• Not just that, the cats had to still look like cats–with no weird protrusions or suspicious scars.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2017
• The voids of one piece match up with the protrusions of its twin, and that lets the two fit together as a single cylinder.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2017
• The scope’s camera can clearly see polyps, or an out-of-place protrusion of cells, which can then be snipped off.
  — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
• Smith displayed his wrist to Cuomo, which was broken at the time and still has a large protrusion.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 June 2020
• Pachycephalosaurus had a thick, bony skull with all kinds of jagged protrusions, the better to fight its rivals with.
  — Emma Stefansky, GQ, 21 June 2018
• Logan and his girlfriend Chloe Bennet headed to the queen of zits to rid him of a back protrusion filled with pus.
  — Seventeen, 26 Sep. 2018
• In their trade, a last is a precise model of the foot that replicates its length and width, its protrusions and hollows.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Enlarge / Fire ants form a protrusion from an ant raft.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
• To get plant cuttings, look for the node—a small protrusion that will turn into roots—between each leaf or set of leaves.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• The protrusion will be most noticeable on iPhone 13 Pro, the report says.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 May 2021
• The closet was a two-sided protrusion with a bar to hang clothes on, covered by a brown curtain.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• This has been shown to produce bizarre protrusions, which grow with each successive pass through the cloud.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• The depth gauge will ensure that the raker (the protrusion across from each cutting tooth) is not higher than the cutting tooth.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• The antlers, a spectacular protrusion of bones that splayed into dozens of points, were the stuff of hunting lore.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
• Those protrusions are topped by a ring of string-like filaments.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
• The gnomon, or the shadow-casting protrusion, is 35 feet tall with a shadow twice that length.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
• The gnomon, or the shadow-casting protrusion, is 35 feet tall with a shadow twice that length.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2021
• The button now sits inside a protrusion that’s not exactly easy on the eyes.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
• Elevate your soft pal-ate (the back of the roof of your mouth)and your uvula (the fleshy protrusion that hangs from your soft palate) while making the vowel sound a.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Some fish have exhibited pop-eye (a protrusion of the eye).
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
• Instead of handles, there are cutouts for your hand—no protrusions.
  — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2014
• There also appears to be a small protrusion on the front of the roof that could be a Lidar sensor like on the new Lotus Eletre.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 11 Apr. 2022
• In the machine here represented that hold on the ground is secured by the protrusion of a series of twelve anchors through the rim of each wheel.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
• These protrusions bind to receptors on host cells, determining the cell types—and thus the range of species—that the virus can infect.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Then a protrusion — an arm, a leg, or perhaps a tentacle — pops out.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 26 July 2019

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024