Jutting

Our final stop — though the photographer was clearly just getting warmed up a couple of hours into our tour of his old stomping grounds — was the remnants of the Maspeth Bridge, these days little more than some ancient wooden sticks jutting from the fetid waters. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

Examples include walking through a house with an endless corridor in the basement, a man in a suit and hat that stalks you, a flying pterodactyl, a giant face jutting from the wall, being swallowed by the sun, and so much more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the Act II showpiece, she is thrust forward over the orchestra pit on a plank jutting from the stage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Six miles above the forks, on the west side of the Jefferson, there is a bluff or point of a high plain jutting into the valley to the brink of the river, which bears some resemblance to a beaver's head, and goes by that name. ❋ Unknown (1844)

Creek, both falling into a pond situated at the eastern extremity of a point of the mountain jutting down in the plain on the south side of Day's Creek. ❋ Unknown (1844)

These "Gates" are a high rocky conical elevation attached to a plain jutting into the bottom on one side of the river precisely opposite to the bluff rocky termination of a plain of considerable height, on the other side, but three or four hundred yards asunder; which gives to them the appearance of formidable gates, and they were thus named by Lewis and Clark. ❋ Unknown (1844)

Clouds of smoke were observed on the following day curling up from the summit of a mountain jutting into the east side of the valley, probably raised by the ❋ Unknown (1844)

The hilt of his sword jutting over his shoulder cast a wavering cruciform shadow on the water below us. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

The severed arm flopped to the ground, and the black man stood stock still facing his enemy, the sword jutting from his shoulder. ❋ Gemmell, David (1997)

She saw the two men struggling, the gleaming sword jutting from the assassin's back. ❋ Gemmell, David (1990)

Cara-mon stood with his arms folded across his chest, the hilt of his sword jutting up over his back, the main-gauche sitting at his hip. ❋ Stein, Kevin, 1954- (1989)

He fell to his knees and stared down at the hilt of the sword jutting from his chest. ❋ Gemmell, David (1988)

Uther moved to the sword jutting in the entrance, the blood staining the earth. ❋ Gemmell, David (1988)

One of the three, with an officer's sword jutting from beneath his cloak, nodded back. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (1981)

The quiver of an eyelash would unhinge it now; and angry with the life I already felt was behind me, and turning in defiant expectation to the new to come, I rose, saw the red gleam of my sword jutting like a fiery spear from the cracking soil where I had planted it, then looked once more at the drop and glanced for the last time at the sullen red terror on the hill. ❋ Unknown (1905)

I'm afraid "jutting," as you put it, is in the eye of the beholder. ❋ Mac (2007)

She saw the two men struggling, the gleaming sword jutting from the assassin’s back. ❋ Gemmell, David (1990)

"He's about as tall as you are," Susette was saying, "skinny -- no, I mean fine-boned and lean -- except for wide shoulders and a kind of jutting chest. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)

Snapshots of a Greek temple, jutting up from the rocks by the sea. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)