Antonyms for sticking outstick·ing out

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1. jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)adjective

   extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

   "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

   Antonyms:
   intrusive

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1. sticking outnoun

   Synonyms:
   projection, protrusion, prominence

How to use sticking out in a sentence?

1. Greg Hare:

   While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch.

2. Santosh Nayak:

   It was race against time to save the life of the patient, who had come to the hospital with severe injury with a steel rod sticking out from his chest on [his] right side, the success can be attributed to the speed and teamwork by all departments and staff concerned.

3. Marty Mobley:

   It looked like a guy's arm at first because we were expecting to see a skier, but it was moaning and groaning and moving and we realized it was a moose, even though only his ears and some of its snout was sticking out of the snow.

4. Jonah Choiniere:

   Blair McPhee told me how important Blair McPhee thought it was, and even showed me that some of its bones were still sticking out of the rocks in the field.

5. Sue Hendrickson:

   Anybody who had any idea what a fossil versus a rock (looked like) would have seen it, there (were) a lot of broken bones dribbling down (and) about 8 feet up the side of the cliff, there were three articulated vertebrae and a couple of other pieces of bone sticking out.

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