protrude

protrude from (someone or something)

To jut, push, extend, or thrust out of someone or something. He walked away from the accident, a metal rod protruding from him. The extension they've built protrudes very awkwardly from the rest of the house.
See also: protrude
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

protrude from someone or something

to stick out from someone or something. Even in the dark, I knew he was hurt because I could see the knife protruding from him. A knife protruded from the victim's back.
See also: protrude
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • protrude from
  • protrude from (someone or something)
  • thrust through
  • thrust through (someone or something)
  • jut out over (someone or something)
  • thrust in
  • thrust into
  • thrust into (someone or something)
  • kick against
  • kick against (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
The teats of the female will protrude enough so that you can feel them quite distinctly.
Garcia (3) reported one case and Leblanc et al (4) reported three in which a bony defect in the base of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone near the foramen rotundum allowed a meningoencephalocele to protrude into the pterygopalatine fossa.
From the white wall above the bar protrude adjustable nozzles projecting conditioned air down towards people below.
In patients in whom it is curved medially to a greater extent than usual, the free margin of the uncinate process can protrude into and sometimes in some patients even out of the middle nasal meatus.
Each family of T cells is distinguished by differences in the second of two receptor proteins, known as alpha and beta chains, which protrude in a V from a T cell's membrane.
The lushly brushed faces of Point (all works 1993) and Call measure approximately four-by-four feet and four-by-eight feet respectively and protrude more than two feet from the gallery wall.
Since none of the sharp angles protrude beyond the adjacent facades, the tower maintains a mannerly appearance on the streetscape with a discreet entrance flanked by the Christian Dior boutique.
We report the case of a 16-year-old trumpet player who was referred for an otolaryngologic consultation after his band leader noticed that a neck mass would protrude while the boy was playing.
In Untitled #23 two-by-fours covered with cotton cloth protrude at odd lengths from an approximate picture-plane, while in Untitled #28, cotton sacks anarchically tumble down the wall and spill out over the floor.
Brick and concrete boxes housing film equipment protrude into the street, changing the scale and animating its edges.
Nobody really understands the cause of gastroschisis, a hole in the abdominal wall that allows the baby's intestines to protrude outside its body.
These volumes protrude surreally through the roof plane; their strangely textured and coloured bulks are also highly visible from the outside.
This defect -- resulting from a hole in the muscular wall, or diaphragm, separating the chest cavity from the abdomen -- allows the fetal intestines to protrude into the chest, where they prevent normal lung development.
With widths of 0.2 to 0.4 millimeter, these fossils bear ornaments like spikes and flanges that protrude from their spherical surface.
The actual cell structure found in the new foam works in the same way but is much more convoluted and contains ribs that are bent and protrude into the cells.