Definition of "obtrudes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtrude. (verb)

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• "I don't mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can't sleep o 'nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters."
• "I don’t mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can’t sleep o’ nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters."
• "Here, in a series titled Third Person, are lesser stars whose faces are half-hidden by anonymous silhouettes, from the depths of which a third image obtrudes: a garish landscape or an eerie flight of birds."