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Synonyms & Antonyms for jut
Synonyms: Verb
bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
Synonyms: Noun
bulge, bunch, convexity, overhang, projection, protrusion, protuberance, swell
Antonyms: Noun
cavity, concave, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hollow, indent, indentation, indenture, pit, recess
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Examples of jut in a Sentence
Verb
mountains jutting into the sky the sandbar juts out into the oceanNoun
Cape Fear is one of the more colorfully named juts along the North Carolina coast.
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Under some circumstances, the cells would form lots of membrane protrusions that jutted out from their surface. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "We’ve finally gotten a look at the microbe that might have been our ancestor," 7 Aug. 2019 The bow and wheelhouse of a small boat jutted from the back wall. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Doc's Morning Line: Is there anything in sports like Major League Baseball's trade deadline?," 1 Aug. 2019 News video from the scene showed the structures burning off a private road that juts out from Aborn Road, just a few hundred yards east of Gurdwara Avenue. — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, "San Jose: 4-alarm grass fire burns 2 structures, 47 acres; dog killed," 16 July 2019 The result showed the face of a typical Neanderthal, jutting from the skull and complete with protruding brow ridges. — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, "Skull fragment from Greek cave suggests modern humans were in Europe more than 200,000 years ago," 10 July 2019 Added bonus: The beach looks out toward some seriously photo-worthy rock formations, which jut out dramatically from the Adriatic. — Condé Nast Traveler, "The Best Beaches in Italy to Visit This Summer," 8 July 2019 Drinking water About a third of the way into the campground is a spring where clean water streams through a plastic spigot jutting from the base of a cliff. — Scott Craven, azcentral, "Hiking to Havasupai: How far is it, what's Mooney Falls like and everything you need to know," 24 June 2019 Today, what remains of its skeleton is encased in a mound of grass, a portion of its mast jutting out from the earth for crows to perch on. — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, "Lost at Sea," 10 June 2019 Uranus’ is even more outlandish, like a bar magnet that has flipped upside-down, meaning its magnetic south juts out from the planet’s northern hemisphere. — National Geographic, "Bizarre form of hot ice seen on Earth," 8 May 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Each person was apportioned a space 3-by-5 feet; at 10-by-12 feet, Locke’s monument was designed to accommodate two families of four, with a small jut where the auctioneer would have stood to hawk his human wares. — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston lost a powerful, poetic work when artist pulled his ‘Auction Block’ slave memorial," 17 Aug. 2019 Two large cell blocks jut to east and west, housing 154,000 inmates over 90-plus years of operation. — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, "‘Shawshank’ 25th anniversary: How movie redeemed Mansfield’s notorious Ohio State Reformatory," 21 July 2019 So his manager, Marc Madiot, who had a great mane of white hair and a defiant jut to his chin, commanded the couch like a captain on his poop deck. — Michael Powell, New York Times, "On the Road With the Tour de France," 18 July 2019 From the seasonal Bok Bar, Center City and points north jut skyward. — Michael Klein, https://www.inquirer.com, "This South Philly bar has a killer happy hour and free parking," 4 June 2019 The six farms, which together cover hundreds of acres in the central sections of the bay, reveal themselves at low tide, when the long lines, framed by PVC pipes, jut out of the water in rambling rows. — Richard Stenger, SFChronicle.com, "Everything you need to know about the oyster capital of California," 3 July 2018 High-rises jut skyward in Buenos Aires, but the region lags between the U.S. and Europe in terms of the productivity of its cities. — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, "Why are Latin American and Caribbean cities less productive? Mayors in Miami to discuss," 11 June 2018 Tellingly, each of these channels juts directly backwards from the temporary shorelines. — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, "There Were Mega-Tsunamis on Mars," 19 May 2016 Girls in pinafores and straw hats are preparing for an outing to Hanging Rock, where giant obelisks of red stone jut out of the earth and create a labyrinth of craggy interstices—a geological marvel and a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians. — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, "Picnic at Hanging Rock," 22 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'jut.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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