Sentence examples for nose from inspiring English sources

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nose

verb

To move cautiously by advancing its front end.

  • The ship nosed through the minefield.

Exact(60)

Use the remainder of the first sheet of card for the nose and cheeks.

He was a master of disguise who loved tweaking the nose of the police.

Hay fever can be horrible for children (runny noses aren't fun, and a blocked nose disrupts sleep), especially at exam time.

Your child should start using them two weeks before the pollen season starts as they prevent the nose being made over sensitive to pollen, although few people remember to do this.

It's pleasant to fantasise that if Mirvish hadn't died in 2007, the building would never have been sold for scrap – but Ed's defining characteristic wasn't so much honesty as a hard nose.

"I'm sure I was doing it earlier," Pearson said, "but just at that particular time I wasn't holding his nose, I was just breathing, and obviously the air was coming back out".

NHS Choices says the nasal spray is safer and more effective than the injected vaccine and has only minor side-effects such as a runny nose, fever, muscle ache and headache.

With a maximum height of nearly 3,000 metres, getting back down again, via a nerve-inducing series of switchbacks (the aptly named Devil's Nose) is a memorable white-knuckle experience.

By late 1891 he was convinced his brain was pouring from his nose and mouth, and thought his urine was made of diamonds.

Kasparov rocked back on his chair, massaged his temples, squeezed his nose and pouted at his pieces.

"Minister Hunt has ignored the evidence and thumbed his nose at the serious concerns of scientists, tourism operators, fishers and Unesco about the impacts of these industrial developments and activities".

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