Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust out or outward.
- noun The act of thrusting outward; in stone or steel construction, a thrust outward, as in a bridge which is not perfectly equilibrated.
- noun A projection from a building.
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Examples
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I remember the out-thrust of his protruding underlip as he glared down at the wild pigs.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Later that month, you stop imbibing at all, just press your lips to the out-thrust inflation device nozzle without opening it and suck.
Beachball, Kentucky Heather Fowler 2011
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With a quick out-thrust of his four legs, he rolled over on his side and with questioning eyes and pricked ears looked and listened.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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He moved in front of me, blocking my way with an out-thrust chest.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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He moved in front of me, blocking my way with an out-thrust chest.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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He moved in front of me, blocking my way with an out-thrust chest.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The soil there was stony and as I approached the end, the trees became more stunted until I stood on an out-thrust of stone where only brush grew.
Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008
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He looked to me like some foul bird of prey: greed and cunning in the restless brown eyes set close together, quick resolution in the out-thrust, bony jaws and hard chin; but manifestly he had no capacity, no mind: he was meagre in all ways.
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The green-lit ball disappeared into one of the corsair's engines and it blew up, just as the out-thrust hangar doors cut off Chaison's view.
Sun of Suns 2006
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Full upon Kane's out-thrust blade the creature ran, and toppled back into the red swirl below, clawing beast-like at its mortal wound.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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