How to Use protuberance in a Sentence

protuberance

noun

• This is the small bony protuberance found at the rear base of the human skull.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
• It is described as bright green with small protuberances on its back.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• From above, the appendages look like the protuberances of an amoeba.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• Just look for a lower protuberance from which stems or leaves emerge, and do not remove them or new growth will not fill in.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
• These knobby protuberances, known as galls, are sort of like tree cysts induced by the presence of the host wasp's young.
  — Andrew Forbes, National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2017
• The jewel-tone dresses had fan-like protuberances attached to them.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• Those images showed huge, flame-like protuberances of dust arcing out from the limb of Betelgeuse.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• These extreme eruptions on the sun, if large enough, may be visible as tiny pink protuberances peaking around the edge of the moon.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• Many of these species are brightly colored and have protuberances and stinging hairs known as setae, that can cause a rash to humans that touch them.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• That explained the protuberance on its snout, which resembled a tiny battering ram.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 24 July 2021
• The other bore tooth-like protuberances, called ossicles, above speckled reddish black skin.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Nov. 2017
• In literally the blink of an eye, all those little bumps, spikes, and protuberances disappear.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• Tiny projections stick out from the stalk, and the crooked tip has structures called a conical protuberance, a globular head and a rugged flap.
  — Katie Cottingham, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
• From this face extended a fleshy protuberance, similar to a mini elephant trunk or a tapir’s proboscis.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 3 July 2017
• Find the places where elk, deer, and moose spend the winter, then comb the terrain for the pointy protuberances that naturally drop off the animals.
  — Mike Koshmrl, National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• And third, create as much downforce as possible without getting crazy with drag-inducing wings and protuberances.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• Most of the first 10 lines show microscopic parallel marks on the sides of the groove, probably caused by slight protuberances on the sides of the tool.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
• The bone spurs jut off of what’s called the external occipital protuberance (EOP) of the skull.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
• Throughout, every protuberance is thin and delicately rough-edged, like deckled paper.
  — Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich, Martha Schwendener and Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Above the central display is a ventilative protuberance sporting a pair of menacing ambient lights.
  — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2025
• The presence of this protuberance encouraged the wind to pass around it, reinforcing its tendency to dig more deeply closer to the rim, hollowing out a doughnut trench.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Officials also are interested in any signs of two viruses that have appeared in turkeys in recent years, with symptoms including warty protuberances in the head and eye area.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
• One particularly exciting aspect of the Wyoming fossil is a bony protuberance over its eye sockets, which is not a feature seen in nocturnal birds.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
• When cells produce proteins, the amino acids spontaneously fold into tangled and twisted structures, with pockets and protuberances, and sometimes long, trailing tails.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
• For example, why were American women encouraged to torture themselves with cage-like corsets, don yards of cumbersome cloth and carry around a heavy protuberance called a bustle?
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
• When Kahan threw the typically upbeat floral protuberance, Tango obligingly chased after it just like a real dog would.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• But mechanical gimbals are not exactly aerodynamic—one example is that massive protuberance on the nose of Predator drones.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2011
• Described as bright green with small protuberances on its back, the frog belongs to the Gastrotheca genus, a group of marsupial frogs found in Central and South America.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2026
• This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019
• In the far distance lies the Pacific Ocean, and beyond that, featureless protuberances labeled Japan, Russia and China.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025