Sentence examples for off the nose from inspiring English sources

They'd lop off the nose to spite the face.

Many have learned to simply laugh them off — the nose that constantly bleeds, the throat that has ached every day since the manicurist started working.

The collision caused damage to one propeller, disabling an engine, knocked off the nose cone and punctured the plane's body, causing a loss of air pressure inside.

The first time we see Gemma Arterton in her new film, Byzantium, she is biting off the nose of a lecherous punter in a lap-dancing club.

From the time of the Ramayana when Lakshman cut off the nose and breasts of Shurpanakha for making sexual advances towards him, we have distrusted such women, often demonizing them.

The third or fourth time I knocked off the nose on a head -- one slip was all it took -- and had to begin anew I came to have greater appreciation for the Greek masters.

Men believed to be Islamic militants cut off the noses of six villagers, according to police reports.

Police reports say men believed to be Islamic militants cut off the noses of six villagers they accused of being agents of the Indian Army.

But it is time to tell the people of No Noseland that they should not cut off the noses of their children.

The story was beautifully illustrated by Molly Crabapple and told the tale of a land that, because of the actions of a king long since dead, had come to think of cutting off the noses of its children as normal practice.

Be certain to round off the tip of the nose to give the sheep less of a block-like snout.