Nose

/[nəʊ̯z]/

"Nose" in a Sentence (34 examples)

If you go underwater, hold your nose and blow to clear your ears.

His wife leads him by the nose.

The instant I open the lid an offensive smell greets my nose.

If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Your nose is running. Blow it.

I just wanna nose around a bit.

The newsman has a nose for news.

The accident happened under his nose.

That reporter has a nose for news.

The cat pressed its nose against the window.

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She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].

the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane

We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.

Red Rum only won by a nose.

Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant.

We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.

It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.

A successful reporter has a nose for news.

They had a nose around the abandoned property.

[…] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]

The ship nosed through the minefield.

Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

She was nosing around other people’s business.

[…] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.

Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.]

Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.

[L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]

to nose a prayer

It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.

to nose a stair tread

The plane is nosing up!

We have to get it nosing down.

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