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. Mayor Louie Trujillo:

   There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed.

2. 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.

3. Valeria Vasnetsova:

   This is what they've been feeding me for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the last five days, they don't give us any other options for food. My bones are sticking out. I'm very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. I'm very tired.

4. Brenda Schell:

   Brenda Schell decided Brenda Schell wanted to go check out this area and my husband sees this red wood sticking out. He goes to pick it up and it's this crazy little boat !

5. Terry Kerby:

   We guessed right, and the very first thing that came out of the dark was that giant hangar door. And then the conning tower was totally intact, laying on its side with three periscopes sticking out without a dent in them.

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