Sentence examples for my nosy from inspiring English sources

This bit appealed to my nosy side.

He'd only been given an hour's notice for my interview but welcomed me like an old friend, making me peppermint tea "in honour of my accent" and humouring my nosy curiosity as I poked around his studio.

Most employees — er, cast members — try their best to respond to my nosy operational questions, usually with a blush and an apology.

I proceeded to tell many people about my own abuela who lived in Mexico, but my plan to fit in was thwarted by my nosy mother: "No, no, our family is actually from India" -- wherever that was.

My curious (nosy) nature means I err on the side of worthy.

My cousin will never find a guy if she doesn't lose weight... my neighbor is too nosy... my friend is too self-absorbed with posting selfies on social media... What does this all mean?

I looked like I fit in, but every time my friends asked nosy questions or put me and my ethnicity on display, it reminded me that I did not.

The architect of the Hepworth Wakefield gallery on his family's large 1920s flat in Portland Place, central London David Chipperfield doesn't entirely approve of my desire to nosy around his flat.

So what should the government do to make the leaker's task — and my job as a nosy journalist — harder?

"He asked me nosy questions about my personal life," she recalled.

"We tried to throw her a surprise party, but Little Miss Nosy went into my cellphone," Ms. Gilliland explained.