EXCRESCENCE in a Sentence

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1. Its caverns, its excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and grinned beneath the smoke.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCRESCENCE
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excrescence
 n.  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
 n.  (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
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1  For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII
2  A large tree, covered with those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces distant from the pile of stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
3  Its caverns, its excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and grinned beneath the smoke.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
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