How to Use jut in a Sentence

jut

1 of 2 verb
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  • Steel ridges jutted from its side, warped by the shock of the blast.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Ice shelves are tongues of ice that jut out into the ocean at the end of glaciers.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Cannon Beach is the first place that comes to mind, known for the huge rocks that jut out of the water.
    — Jessica Booth, Woman's Day, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The grassy island with its sheer rocky cliffs jutted from the sea, not a tree in sight.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The bottom of Ariel and Prince Eric’s boat juts out from the ceiling, too.
    — Lia Picard, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The new facility juts like a grey cube from the base of the marble obelisk.
    — Ashraf Khalil, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The part of the glacier that’s melting fastest—the ice shelf, or the part that juts into the ocean—is losing close to 150 feet of ice a year.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Even better, a private dock that juts out over the bay is the ideal spot to catch the sunset.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • There is a cantilevered landing that juts out from the studio, bridging it to the main house.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
  • In front of us, big gray mountains jutted into the blue sky.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Make sure your chin does not jut forward and that your shoulders do not round up.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Alongside the coast of what should be China, a trail of dashes jut out into the map’s ocean.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • Glaciers are often stabilized by ice shelves—tongues of ice that jut out from the edge of the ice sheet into the ocean.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
  • Great islands of mud that broke from the slump upon impact jut from the channel.
    — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Read full article Part of what holds the glacier in place is an ice shelf that juts out onto the surface of the ocean.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Tree trunks and large twisted roots jut out the skeletal school structure.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There will be an open floor in front of the stage, which juts out into the audience, and it will be ringed by balconies and bars.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
  • From these extend—like trays on a waiter’s fingers, Wright liked to say—the terraces and jutting eaves of the house.
    — Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Or about a pair of skewers jutting out like clock hands striking 10.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
  • There are no extra shift levers jutting out of the tunnel, no front hubs to lock, just a small switch inside the glove box.
    — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The film’s title refers to the cityscape of Seoul, with its apartment complexes that jut up like rows of children’s blocks.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The home juts out towards the waves in an angular shape and has walls of large windows to maximize the sea views.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2023
  • On Sunday morning, one of the home’s bedrooms was exposed to Hoyt Street, a mattress and bed frame jutting out the side of the house.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In front of me: Andes peaks jutting into a blue sky with clouds that could’ve been painted on.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • Placing her hand on her hip and jutting out her leg is the ultimate pop star stance.
    — Janaya Wecker, ELLE, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Farther still, on the horizon: a ridge of mountains, jutting into the blue like the teeth of some mile-high rusted saw.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Built in 2016, the home sits on over an acre of land in the North Ridge neighborhood and comes with a pier that juts out into the lake, a boat slip and lift, and a three-car garage.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The nearly-naked look was adorned with sharp tinsel-like strips of plastic that jutted from the neck, waist, wrists and ankles.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
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jut

2 of 2 noun
  • Cape Fear is one of the more colorfully named juts along the North Carolina coast.
  • The narrow strand of sand juts into the ocean where the Gulf Stream flows from the south and the Labrador Current meets it from the north.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Two just-visible chair arms jut from the bottom of the frame.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • With the bullpens in left-center field not being moved as part of this project, the ballpark now has a sharp jut from the bullpen to the rest of the wall.
    — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The squinting eyes, the jut of the chin, the precise tessellation of the lower lip and upper lip stay the same.
    — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • With bobbing movements and sharp juts of its beak, the rooster snips as the venomous snake writhes in front of it.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The waves, which appeared small from afar, rumble over the reef, sections of which jut above the water line.
    — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The black handle of a .44 Magnum juts prominently from his pack.
    — Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The site is on a lovely jut of land that offers you an almost 250-degree view of the lake from the picnic table.
    — idahostatesman, 24 May 2016
  • The recent drop in the Dow is just the tip of an iceberg increasingly starting to jut above the water line.
    — William D. Cohan, vanityfair.com, 23 Mar. 2017
  • In the fourth, Puig's shot off third baseman Alex Bregman's glove bounced into the corner where the low wall juts toward the third-base foul line.
    — David Barron, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • From the seasonal Bok Bar, Center City and points north jut skyward.
    — Michael Klein, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
  • Each shoe weighs juts under a pound, staving off foot fatigue after a long day of hiking.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2023
  • The kind that makes your lip jut in solemn appreciation.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The impact caused Hudson's feet to jut underneath the pedals.
    — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The company also opted to increase the overall thickness of the phone, which makes the camera jut out less.
    — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2017
  • The ability to walk around the concourse 360 degrees, the jut of stands in right field that gives the nook-and-cranny feel, the on-deck circles being donuts, the details matter.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The enormous patina-green fountain pen juts over the sidewalk on F Street, two blocks from the White House, its gold nib pointing down at the front doors like a command.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Crevasses are cracks that typically form as a result of stress on the ice as a glacier moves over land or juts into the ocean and weakens.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And since there are barely any borders framing the display, the front-facing camera juts into the screen, which can make the front look a bit awkward.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 14 July 2017
  • Image Shortly thereafter, the highway juts east toward Caliente, marking the most picturesque portion of the drive.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The Greek island juts upwards, roads and alleyways wind around steep stone steps without railings.
    — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The hotel's 6th floor Altitude Rooftop & Pool juts out from dramatic walls of glass windows.
    — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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, 18 July 2019
  • Cohen then walked to a back corner of the property, where wood steps connected to the home jut out, providing a gorgeous view of the neighborhood.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 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, 3 July 2018
  • Front and center is a huge glass column filled with water, through which tropical fish flutter in pretty circles around juts of coral.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • And in August, the plate that doctors put in his face to repair his orbital bone shifted and began poking through his cheek — a half-inch jut of metal and plastic sitting like a shelf under his eye.
    — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
  • There was no rescue mission, no jut-jawed stoicism, no swooping vigilante.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 7 June 2019
  • Fiberglass wedges jut out from every surface—even the floor—to prevent waves from reverberating and muddying the test results.
    — Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020

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