How to Use jut in a Sentence

jut

1 of 2 verb
  • Her bones were jutting out, and her eyes were sunken.
    — Kelli Bender, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • An awning is a shade cover that juts out over an area.
    — Melissa Minton, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The cliffs jut out and the lagoon funnels the fog to the trees.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Make sure your chin does not jut forward and that your shoulders do not round up.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The grassy island with its sheer rocky cliffs jutted from the sea, not a tree in sight.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Tree trunks and large twisted roots jut out the skeletal school structure.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The piazza will jut out over the great stone boulders that will form the rip-rap bay wall.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Its cement base jutted up at least 8 inches off the ground.
    — Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The net was pulled along the sandy bottom, running over rocks jutting out from the soft seafloor.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The new facility juts like a grey cube from the base of the marble obelisk.
    — Ashraf Khalil, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Great islands of mud that broke from the slump upon impact jut from the channel.
    — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Placing her hand on her hip and jutting out her leg is the ultimate pop star stance.
    — Janaya Wecker, ELLE, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Dempsey crouched behind the plate and jutted down one index finger hard.
    — Gregory Orfalea, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Or about a pair of skewers jutting out like clock hands striking 10.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Your cheekbones jut toward what are youth-laden eyes that slide down a prominent nose.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Cape Cod juts out to the east just far enough to catch the western fringe of the massive snow shield.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There is a cantilevered landing that juts out from the studio, bridging it to the main house.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 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
  • Looking at anything but the pink tile, sickly-green tub, jutting limbs.
    — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Tiny shells jutted from both pontoons seven months later.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 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
  • The steel beams that had once held up the glass walls jut at unnatural angles, like so many broken legs.
    — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • After about ten minutes, Theo paused and placed his palms flat against a jutting boulder.
    — Ishion Hutchinson, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 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
  • Better yet, there’s no screen jutting up from the dash, and there’s even room for vents above the stereo (which features a tape deck).
    — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 29 Apr. 2026

jut

2 of 2 noun
  • Cape Fear is one of the more colorfully named juts along the North Carolina coast.
  • Too flat and your head drops back; too thick and your chin juts forward.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Two just-visible chair arms jut from the bottom of the frame.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Their love blossoms juts as the first Sharknado comes out of the ocean.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Each shoe weighs juts under a pound, staving off foot fatigue after a long day of hiking.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2023
  • 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
  • Across the street, a clothing post decorated with shoes, shirts and other items juts up from the desert floor.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The southern port city of Tyre juts into the Mediterranean on land that was once an island.
    — Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • 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
  • There was no rescue mission, no jut-jawed stoicism, no swooping vigilante.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • The impact caused Hudson's feet to jut underneath the pedals.
    — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • The Greek island juts upwards, roads and alleyways wind around steep stone steps without railings.
    — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Its signature pier juts into the Pacific as waves big enough to make surfers salivate break beyond miles of white sand.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The main salient, nine miles deep at its deepest, juts into the front line toward Dalnje, just south of Kurakhove.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • At Cala Cavone—a jut of rock fringed with crashing waves—self-service loungers, espresso, and snacks are stored in an alcove in the cliff.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
  • From the seasonal Bok Bar, Center City and points north jut skyward.
    — Michael Klein, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
  • 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
  • Running full speed and having an awareness to be where that wall juts directly back is something that nobody really has to deal with in this game.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Along the back seam, a row of curved metal spikes juts outward, giving the boot a clawed finish that exaggerates its shape with predatory edge.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tellingly, each of these channels juts directly backwards from the temporary shorelines.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2016
  • Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • In Ahmedabad, the tail section of an Air India flight juts from a building like a paper airplane that sailed in and stuck.
    — Time Photo Department, Time, 25 Nov. 2025

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