protrude from

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
  • 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)
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Much work remains to be done on the building--electric cables and water pipes still protrude from ceilings waiting to be covered up, bathroom fixtures have yet to be installed, staircases await their banisters, and the elevators are not yet operational.
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Several signs protrude from the ice bearing the epitaph: "Pompano (Florida)," "Fagri (Greece), "Royal Dorado (Greece)," "Sargos (Greece)," and so on.
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When built-up drips of paint protrude from the surface of the canvas like "stalagmites," as the artist politely calls them, we know that the painterly eruption from the unconscious depths has become self-consciously comic, though not in an insidious way.
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The four flipper-like fins that protrude from the coelacanth's bony torso are the stunted beginnings of legs.
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Because the STM is able to sense the electron clouds that protrude from individual atoms, the researchers also used the instrument to image each step of the reaction.
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The presence of death acts as a counterpoint to this vitalist tension, appearing in many of his "self-portraits." In the most disquieting, Selfportrait, 1985, the head is shattered, multiple eyes protrude from a deformed skull, the gaping mouth cries out in acid pain, and the internal organs are exposed, the genitals a black scrawl.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
With widths of 0.2 to 0.4 millimeter, these fossils bear ornaments like spikes and flanges that protrude from their spherical surface.
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